My files, my space -

To Do:

- Look at smart playlist for itunes

- Capture screen shots of interesting competitive analysis

Need a tag cloud someplace? Easier to recognize while browsing than recall to search. We want both though.

Class outline / syllabus tool

View of files that are course content organized in a specific way
Work with files happens in context
Can upload the files in the context of the work (Image Gallery for instance) and it gets added to my files automatically
What else are files in resources used for?
Student view & TA view -- or is the TA View outside a site?
- Could have "Shared with TA's" then each TA's name within for files only shared with them. What about files shared with 2 or 5 TAs'? "Also shared with"

Uploader

Would be great to drag drop
Need to upload multiple files at once - desktop uploader tool? webdav? adding tags?

Use again Finder

Need a way to look at detailed information about files

See Koral file sharing - screen shots on flickr
Clicking on the link shows the information, user must click "download to download"

Questions:

What about I have a syllabus that is a PDF and just want it to display in-line?
Upload a file, then change it on your hard drive, can we check and ask them if they want to upload the newest version?
- Koral "watches" for changes of files you uploaded and asks
- Also looks for changes to the files on the web and asks if you want to update them on your harddrive
- So the system helps you keep your hard drive and application files synched
Tools handle any changes to the file. Should think about needs for changing files in each tool.
Is my workspace a special case? Perhaps we come back to it? We can't remember what our concern is right now - perhaps too many files to handle in one place.

Other functionality asked for:

Versioning
Security - file live in My Workspace and then used in sites
Do users want a file to be viewed in many places as the same file or do they want copies available in many different contexts
Should users be able to use the resources as a presentation of the files or can something like the resources viewer replace that piece of functionality
- Resources viewer
- Can add multiple instances of resources viewer to the tool menu
Blackboard users depend on being able to hang things off the menus -- add content at the top level navigation

Next Steps:

Hattie & I will work on rough drafts of what this looks like
Test against scenarios
Flesh our user cases in resources to make sure we are covering everything
Think through questions above
Think through information you can add to a file now (conditional release, timed release)

Questions:

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