RE: [Bodington-developers] Customisable LHS panel in Bod

[Adam M. <ada...@co...>]

This project starts next academic year (I think) so will be working from
2.6. I look forward to seeing the extent of your mods.

adam

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Sean Mehan [mailto:se...@sm...]
| Sent: 12 May 2005 12:20
| To: Adam Marshall
| Cc: 'Bodington Developers'
| Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Customisable LHS panel in Bod
| 
| Quick scan is a ++2 from me. However, I would like it to fit into the
| 'tab' panel that is the new look and feel for Bod. This was to facilitate
| just this sort of dev, allowing new tabs to go into the list and be turned
| and off by each admin.
| 
| -s
| 
| 
| <quote who="Adam Marshall">
| > I'm canvassing opinions here. I proposed this as a 3rd year computer
| > science
| > project and we now have a taker.
| >
| > Can you spend 5 minutes looking at this and suggest any modifications or
| > problems. I suppose this is basically a feature proposal.
| >
| > What do we do about people that turn off the panel - do we provide a
| link
| > to
| > the panel somewhere thereby highlighting that there maybe something
| > important.
| >
| > If you think it's a crap idea then let me know and I get the student to
| do
| > something else instead.
| >
| > adam
| >
| > --
| >
| > What we are proposing is that the LHS panel has the opportunity to
| contain
| > an HTML page which is specific to the current room or floor - the tutor
| > can
| > upload a LHS panel resource for each building / floor room / etc. If the
| > current position in Bod doesnt have a LHS panel resource then the next
| > resource higher up in the tree is searched (ad nauseum).
| >
| > This mean that (say) the Biology floor can have a LHS panel which
| contains
| > a
| > list of special biology lectures happening this term. Doctor Foster's
| room
| > on the floor can have a list of times when he is available for
| > consultation,
| > Doctor Mopp can likewise have a list of times when he is available.
| Inside
| > Doctor Fosters room each of his courses can have a list of useful
| > resources
| > - the list changes dependent on which room you are in. If a room doesnt
| > have
| > a specific LHS panel resource then the parent resourse's panel is used.
| >
| >
| > 5/1/05 Sandra Meredith
| >
| > Given that changes are underway for the left side bar in weblearn, would
| > it
| > be possible for us to be able to customise them? We could put a whole
| > variety of useful links in the sidebar that would be suitable for our
| > students but not for those in other disciplines. Things like links to
| news
| > feeds in the sidebar would not be useful for us - we use weblearn for
| > teaching sessions, and students may also use it for self-learning in
| their
| > own time, but it's not a great time to be distracting them with the
| news.
| > They are plenty good at distracting themselves without our help.
| > Angela Carritt
| >
| > Does this mean that each subject/floor will have its own LHS panel but
| > that
| > owners of particular rooms or suites of rooms will be able to set up
| their
| > own side panel in preference to the standard panel? If so, will room
| > owners
| > be able to set up the side panels themselves (using a form?/html?) or
| will
| > we have to ask someone in the Weblearn team to do it for us?
| >
| > Sandy and I look after several suites of rooms on the Law Floor in the
| > Social Sciences Division. We would like to set up several different LHS
| > panels for the different rooms. For example we use one suite of rooms
| for
| > our Legal Research Skills Programme. We would like to set up a couple of
| > different LHS panels to use in this suite. These LHS panels would
| include
| > elements such as:
| >
| > 1. A link to Oxlip on the web and to relevant web pages on the Law
| Faculty
| > /
| > Bodleian Law Library / external web sites 2. A tips section. For example
| > we
| > might want to have a scrolling tips box including information about how
| to
| > resize windows, the difference between tick boxes and radio buttons in
| the
| > MCQ test, how to use INFORMS tutorials etc. We might want to have
| > different
| > tips for different rooms which would presumably mean that we would need
| to
| > have different LHS panels for different rooms. 3. Would it be possible
| to
| > display information in the LHS panel which changes depending on actions
| by
| > the user in the main part of the window? For example would it be
| possible
| > to
| > display information in the LHS panel when a user clicked on a link in
| the
| > centre or on mouse over? I'm not sure if we would want to do this but it
| > would be interesting to know if it's a possibility.
| >
| > We also have a set of rooms for our distance educations students. We
| would
| > like to use a different LHS panel for these students. This would again
| > probably consist of links, tips, mailto links and possibly dynamic
| > information.
| >
| > In summary it would be useful for us if we could create a set of 4 or 5
| > different LHS panels to use in our various rooms. Each LHS panel would
| > include links, text (possibly scrolling) and possibly dynamic
| information.
| > It would be useful if we could change the content of each LHS very
| quickly
| > and without needing assistance from the central team. I think that this
| > would be our ideal scenario for the LHS panels.
| >
| > --
| > Adam Marshall:       OUCS, 13, Banbury Rd. Oxford OX2 6NN.
| > Shameless plug:      Use the Bodington VLE http://bodington.org
| > Blog:                http://ramble.oucs.ox.ac.uk/blog/adamm/
| > Cheese of the month: Cheshire (not to be underestimated)
| >
| >
| >
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