Teaching and Learning: User Concerns

Transition from MyUCDavis to Sakai

• How will content be moved? Automatically? Will we get CD's to back up or old site?

  Tools

• How do we explain the new tools to faculty unfamiliar with them? (e.g. wiki)

  Wiki

• Can users have more than one wiki? Currently you can accomplish something like this by making the first page of your wiki a list of the various pages/sections/classes that you want to have. For example, the first page could link to your physics wiki, your biology wiki, and your personal wiki. This way you have seperate locations for each wiki's organization. You may have to be careful with naming pages, however. You can't have two pages named "assignments." You would specify a page name as "physics assignments" or "biology assignments."
• What if two people try to edit a Wiki page at the same time? If a wiki page is edited by two people at approximately the same time, the first person to submit the edit will change the wiki content. The second person attempting to edit the page will receive a message stating that the wiki page has been updated with new content.

  Quiz Builder

• Can instructors provide feedback on quizbuilder programs?
• Can we instructors add images in their quizes?

  Forum/Discussion

• Articulate the difference between forum/discussion messages and private message: Private messages don't allow for threading and the forum/discussion topics can be estagblished only by those with requisite permission

  Message Center

• Could spam be a problem?

  Roles

• Switching to the student's view.
• Giving TA access to your personal workspace
• Guest Access

Customization

• Resoring the buttons on the left.
• Adding MyUCDavis-style channels
• Adding dynamic content
• Can we incorporate Breeze?

Sections

• Combining Sections

Potential FAQs

• Problem: URLs can't have spaces. Solution: Replace them with underscores.