Forum .LRN Q&A: Response to some initial usability feedback

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Posted by Ben Adida on
Peter,

Thanks for your feedback! Here are some answers:

- the context bar: something we're still working on fixing with a
generic OpenACS solution to override the default context bar.
Agreed that this should be more consistent and clearer.

- the top level nav bar is a Sloan UI choice (which may well
change in the near future). You don't need to use the same
global template. In some way, the existing UI is there to keep
users comfortable with what they already know (the SloanSpace
v1 bar). But feel free to override the default template!

- the page named "preferences" in the URL is just an old URL
that we really need to change. It should be control-panel. Thanks
for pointing this out.

- the default names of pages were chosen to fit existing
SloanSpace terminology. I agree that "My Calendar" would be
more consistent. You can actually change this via the dotLRN
parameters. If you do that, though, make sure to change your
dotlrn-calendar parameters so that it knows to add itself to "My
Calendar" and not  "Calendar".

- the "go back" on the configure page is generic because it's a
generic page with a generic return_url :) We'll work on adding a
"return_pretty_name". Thanks for point this out.

- that's a bug on the my files page sending you to the my space
page. Thanks for pointing this out.

- if you close a portlet, you get it back by going to the configure
page and readding it from there.

- the user-add page .... it would be in admin/ if only dotLRN
admins can add users. In the Sloan model, though, professors
can add new users, too, even if they are not dotLRN-wide
admins. We should probably add a parameter to allow/disallow
this.

- description of departments: thanks for pointing this out

- deleting departments: thanks for pointing this out. Certainly if
there are no classes in a department, it should be deletable.

Thanks!!