Help Files 2.8 Project Home

Project Coordinators:

• Mathieu Plourde - mathieu@udel.edu
• Alan Regan - alan.regan@pepperdine.edu

Project Scope:

• Sakai  2.8 OOTB documentation proposed improvements, contributed to IU KB team.
  • QA process to catch any inaccuracies in existing content
  • Proposed recommendations to improve textual organization or layout in the help pages to help end-users find and use help information quickly and easily

Project Out of Scope:

• Release Mgmt issues. The timeline for this project may not line up very well with the 2.8 release of Sakai. We hope that the documentation improvements will end up in a 2.8.1release or 2.8.x branch.

Project Timeline (proposed):

• Review and draft recommend changes: Now through April 30
• Time for group feedback: May 1-15
• Revised changes based on feedback: May 20
• Final group review: May 23-27
• Final changes: June 1-7
• Submit final recommendations to IU: June 10

Meetings:

• June 29, 2011
• February 2, 2011
• January 19, 2011
• December 10, 2010

Project Organization:

Interested community members are encouraged to pair up to form a writing team. At least one member of the team should be a functional expert on the topic to be improved. Each writing team will report to the Project Coordinator every two weeks (ideally during a conference call) to discuss progress to date and issues discovered as well as next steps.

Project Communications:

• Regular email communications will occur on the Sakai "Documentation" list.
• One (1) hour phone conferences will occur every other week.
  • March 16, 2011 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern
    • Dial in: 877-411-8449 (toll free) or 310-506-6992
    • MeetingID: 72524#
    • If first caller, press star key (*) to cancel the wait music
    • Titanpad for this specific meeting: http://titanpad.com/mqy2YWqnZq

Project Audience: End-Users: Instructors, Students, Project owners

Tools under consideration (and interested writing teams) -- NOTE: During this project we opted to focus attention on Site Info as a first attempt. Items below were considered and worked on briefly in the beginning.

• Tests & Quizzes - Alan, Robin
• Forums - Jennifer, Mathieu
• Assignments - Jennifer's team
• Site Info - Kara Stiles, Jim Mezzanotte
• Roster
• Gradebook 1.0
• Worksite setup
• Resources
• Announcements
• Drop box - Jeff Z.
• SiteStats
• Profile
• Profile 2.0

Writing teams

• Identify who enjoys writing, editing, planning
• Identify workspace (Google Docs? Confluence wiki?)
• Identify timelines, deadlines, first draft, second, etc.
• Identify wording in Sakai to be revised? Weird processes?
• Partner with a functional expert/developer?

Need a 2.8 Server to Use?

• Sakai 2.8 QA server list

Team Member Timeline and availability
 
Location to start work
Confluence?
GoogleDocs?
GoogleSites?
NEXT STEPS
Confluence