Page Comparison

• Neoportal is available beginning with Sakai 2.9. From Sakai 2.8 to 2.9 there is one change wrt tool navigation: For a given site, one can navigate directly to a tool from the site nav bar (without having to click on site first and then tool) 
• See notes on Chat below
• Preferences > Customize Tabs: 
• "Sites not visible in Tabs" label changed to "My Hidden Sites"
• "Sites visible in Tabs" label changed to "My Active Sites"
• (there were many other features we made note of in b02 tag but they weren't present in b03)

• Headers of widgets all preceded by "My Workspace"
• Unread Messages and Forums now "Message Center Notifications"
• Calendar widget displays what course site events come from (SAK-14854)
  

• Not sure. Can't see Profile on Sakai 2.9 QA server.

• Edit Site Information: Change language for site (user language is default)
• Install and configure external IMS LTI-compliant tool
• If site is unpublished, there is link to publish within "Unpublished Site" alert message
• Remove column label changed to "Check All" with checkbox now to select all participants. (Keli recommending this is changed back)
• Displays time stamp under Update Participants button (to let you know when last manual change was made) )
  
• Page Order: A new option is available called "Disable page for normal users." This feature has a lock icon and will allow instructors and TAs to view the tool, but hide it in the menu from others users – yet, the content is still accessible. This can be helpful for Lesson Builder (storing material in Resources but sequencing it via Lesson Builder).
  

• Nothing new. Reorder feature was introduced in Sakai 2.8 but remains off by default. Great feature to allow users to drag-and-drop announcements into the desired order.

• Permissions can be set for roles within group, not just at site level
• compress to zip archive and expand zip archive (not turned on by default, see SAK-800)

• Dropping Grades: Enable Drop Highest, Enable Drop Lowest, Enable Keep Highest options are available for categories in Gradebook Setup. 
• UI: table columns on All Grades screen can be hidden. Hiding a column will not affect any grade calculations or displays for the students; it's used to organize and simplify the "All Grades" grade table for graders.  
• Export in All Grades and Course Grades pages has been expanded to three different buttons, allowing export in PDF in addition to Excel, and CSV format. 

• Options screen: Ability to set Open Date for students to sign up for sections

Nothing obvious added to the Chat Room tool. There's chat capability that is part of the neoportal but it is not turned on by default on Sakai 2.9 QA server.