For this meeting we’ll be focusing on new functionality under development .

  • “Connections” – a new way of more formally connecting different groups together so they could more easily see activity happening on different connected sites.
    • Possible examples:
      • Multiple sections of the same course
      • Course with connected student ePortfolios
      • Sections of City Tech 101
    • Are there use cases for this that you can imagine for yourself, or colleagues?
  • More fine-grained privacy options within a single site or profile
    • Private docs, Private files
    • Ability to choose more privacy options for individual posts or pages: Mockup
    • Questions? Use cases?
  • Non-active groups
    • Came out of our discussions last semester!
    • Admins could define groups as ‘Not Active’, which would add a ‘flag’ to the profile and automatically switch them to non-joinable.
    • Mockup
    • Non-active groups would be pushed to the bottom of My OpenLab
    • Could exclude non-active groups in a search
  • Activity block and widget
    • Also came out of our discussions last semester!
    • Would create an Activity Block and widget that you could add to your site to show the activity feed from the profile.
  • Reckoning plugin
    • Inspired by Kate’s request for something that would help avoid too much tedious manual counting.
    • If it seems OK, we could hopefully test it out in our next meeting.