<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Philipp Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philipp@p2pu.org">philipp@p2pu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div class="gmail_quote">Suggested Default:<div><br></div><div>* Messages from course organizer (in separate color?)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>An easy way to see just the messages from the organizer would be helpful. I think we'd talked about allowing an organizer to have an "important message" on the group's main page. So being able to filter just for organizer messages would be fantastic.</div>
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* Messages from other participants<br><div>* New tasks created</div></div><div>* New participants</div><div><br></div><div>Suggested Optional:</div><div><br></div><div>* New comment to task created (in task) - I'm a little undecided if this one should be default</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I like seeing the activity personally which would be comments. It shows how the course/group is "alive."</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div>* External feeds (these are creating most of the noise I think)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. They are. And sometimes they're showing up multiple times. I think I know why but haven't come up with a great solution to it.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>* New follower</div><div class="im"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Can this decsion be made by the person who creates the group?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I'll stick my head out and suggest that we do NOT give users the option to control this. I anticipate that this will cause a lot of discussion, but there is research on UX design that shows more options make users unhappy (and confused). Is there really a course where participants would not want to see messages from the organizers, other participants and task creation in the activity stream? </div>
<div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I also agree that too many options cause confusion/unhappiness.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>If we notice that users struggle with the defaults - then we adjust (or give more options).</div><div class="im"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
But what events/activities do we choose to display?<br>
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Zuzel will send a mail to the dev list to get feedback, but will<br>
need to implement something by Monday.<br>
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There are 4 different kinds of activities in the wall:<br>
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* messages posted to the wall by organizers and participants (soon<br>
threaded to allow discussions not related to tasks to happen inside a<br>
group)<br>
* activity related to tasks (creation of new tasks, non minor editions<br>
to tasks, threaded comments around tasks)<br>
* activity that is shared by the organizers from the external links<br>
the group is subscribed to.<br>
* activity related to new faces interested on the course (someone is<br>
following the course)<br>
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We have to decide which of this will be in by default on the wall, and<br>
with can be seen or filtered for quickly access by clicking on<br>
predefined filters (e.g. See activity related to [everything],<br>
[messages], [tasks], [subscriptions], [people]).<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Filter options:</div><div><br></div><div>[Messages from Organizer] </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>[All messages]</div><div>[New tasks]</div><div>[Subscriptions]</div><div class="im">
<div> </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>+1 to all this. Edits on tasks maybe but that's more helpful if someone makes a "placeholder" task that is empty. I figure the organizer would then post to the wall that the task is now ready for work.</div>
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Thoughts?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Zuzel<br></font></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>-- <br><font color="#999999" size="1" face="georgia, serif">Jessica Ledbetter</font><div><a href="http://jessicaledbetter.com" target="_blank"><font color="#999999" size="1" face="georgia, serif">http://jessicaledbetter.com</font></a></div>
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