Feature Request: Sites Menu - Option for students to see unpublished sites
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Alan Regan August 22, 2022 at 7:01 PM
For the UX Team, this request needs special consideration since students may click the “Sites” menu to find their sits by academic term. It would need to be listed without the ability to click on the name and with some indication that the site is unpublished with a link to learn more about its status. Given the limited real estate, perhaps the eye-slash icon that has a link on it for the explanation?
Although a separate heading for Unpublished sites (like Project Sites) could be explored, I feel that students would look at the current term and expect to see the sites listed there. They would likely look alphabetically as well.
Thoughts welcome!
Issue
At the start of a new semester/quarter/trimester/term, a common issue is that students contact a school’s tech support because they can’t see a class site. At our institution, we auto-create sites but leave them in an “unpublished/draft” state so that professors can choose to use the LMS (or not). Also, so professors can develop their sites and add content without students seeing the site while “under construction.”
Proposal
Provide a Sakai property or configuration to display or not display unpublished course or project sites to enrolled participants in the Membership tool. The primary use case would be official course sites so that students would know that enrollment data has been shared with the LMS from the SIS and that their instructor hasn’t published it yet.
Notes
I was not sure which component covers the “Sites” menu in the main navigation. I listed “Portal” but would appreciate – if someone knows which component involves the “Sites” menu – an update to the component if needed.
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