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Introduction To Sakai & When To Choose A New Worksite
Contributor(s): THL Staff.
Non-UVa People Must Enter their First and Last Names.
For UVa people, the system will find their name and automatically insert it into their account information. However, for non-UVa people, the person in question has to manually log in, and then insert their first and last names in the "My Workspace: Account" area. Once they do that, their name will properly appear in the credits for WIKI, chatting, discussion forums, and so forth. If they are added to additional worksites, they will not need to redo it - the information will be automatically applied as long as you are using the same email address to subscribe them to worksites.
You need to make a point of it - otherwise most people don't do it. Thus send an email like the following when you subscribe a non-UVa person to a worksite: "For your name to be properly credited when you make changes to wiki, i need you to put your name in your account. After you log into COLLAB, you to go the My Workspace tab. Then on the left choose Account, and use the options to insert your first and last name. By doing this, your name rather than email address will appear to people when you participate in the web site - which is important.
When To Choose A New Worksite rather than work within a Current Worksite for a Given Task and Group
- I need to use the email list quite a bit, and I don't want to have people in the current worksite (THL) getting that email both because of its personal nature for the project, and because of the clutter.
- I have extensive WIKI documentation for the project, and it's harder to find if you have to go through some other site's initial folder structure.
- Same for RESOURCEs.
And so on…
I think I'm starting to get the hang of when a new worksite is called for. I look forward to finding out how "groups" function, but right now I am expecting that is mostly about permissions rather than having people in a group actually see a new WIKI home page, etc., since as I now understand it those things are accomplished by having different worksites rather than trying to carve up one worksite.
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