Features
Google Spreadsheet of Features under review
Potentially controversial items:
Brief Description |
Implications or Concerns |
Proposed Solution |
Completed? |
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Send email feature |
The permissions for who can send email are tied to section.role.ta and site.upd. while forums doesn't use Sakai's Authz, is there a reason not to define a forums specific permission within Sakai's authz? |
Implement forums.email permission |
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Display last activity time and sort by recent activity |
Tried to view feature on qa1-nl and am not seeing it or understanding it |
Might be an easy clarification |
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Synoptic tool |
Assumes both Messages and Forums are being used, so that Messages values are displayed even if the tool isn't deployed. |
Provide some mechanism whereby if Messages is hidden or stealthed, that this column will not be calculated or appear in the display |
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UI changes |
Presumably reduces training burden, but will force changes in user documentation |
UI changes will be well documented in the independent Forums release. |
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Mark messages read after "display all" is viewed |
When you "display all" messages they aren't marked as read. This behavior has been confusing at a number of schools, it is non-standard discussion board behavior, but there is not a consensus that it is a problem. |
"Display all" marks messages as read by default, so that the default behavior matches user expectations, but there is a property to optionally turn this off |
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