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Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #19904 (New): New member welcome screenhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/199042024-03-05T22:04:29ZColin McDonald
<p>How can we go about editing the screen to which new members are redirected after registering? I think it looks something like the attached but haven't been able to get there myself recently. I wanted to explore making some changes to align with some of our work updating the invite modal in <a class="issue tracker-15 status-1 priority-4 priority-default" title="Design/UX: Invite Modal (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/19733">#19733</a>. Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #19903 (Reporter Feedback): Accepting "login.cuny.edu" domain for...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/199032024-03-05T21:56:47ZColin McDonald
<p>Related to the invite modal update (<a class="issue tracker-15 status-1 priority-4 priority-default" title="Design/UX: Invite Modal (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/19733">#19733</a>) and Raffi's question about CUNYFirst SSO (<a class="issue tracker-2 status-1 priority-3 priority-lowest" title="Feature: Authenticate CAC using CUNYfirst SSO (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/19878">#19878</a>), I was wondering if we should consider allowing the @login.cuny.edu domain now for Commons registration. See the attached screenshot for what you get now when trying to register with that domain.</p>
<p>I mentioned this on the dev call earlier, and we used to reject this domain because <a class="email" href="mailto:first.last##@login.cuny.edu">first.last##@login.cuny.edu</a> used to be a username and not an actual email, but now I think that's changed. My @login.cuny.edu now forwards to my GC email inbox, for one.</p>
<p>Marilyn/Scott or others, do you have thoughts on this? Might allowing that domain cut down on support confusion?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #19070 (Resolved): Handling notifications backloghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/190702023-10-20T20:17:08ZColin McDonald
<p>We talked on the community call today (this came up on the dev call Tuesday as well) about the large number of "new" notifications users are seeing after the release this week. Power users are particularly affected, and might have a string going back years.</p>
<p>The issue is how to allow easier clearing of these items. We might consider some threshold (a year or two?) after which notifications are marked "old" by default, as well as ways to make it easier to change the status in bulk. Could there be a select all option, rather than just selecting page by page? Should we have separate tabs for Read and Unread items or ways to filter to one or the other?</p>
<p>I'm including Luke here, who had thoughts on this in particular, and Sara and Ray, it would be good to hear what you think could be helpful from your respective vantage points on this.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #18995 (New): Clarifying 'delete account' texthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/189952023-10-06T23:06:22ZColin McDonald
<p>After discussing the deleted account problems in <a class="issue tracker-3 status-4 priority-4 priority-default" title="Support: Sites missing pages, menus, icons, banners (Reporter Feedback)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/18982">#18982</a> during the community call today, we agreed we should strengthen/clarify the text and prompts on the Delete Account screen in Settings.</p>
<p>I've attached how it looks/reads right now, though of course this will change visually with the upcoming release.</p>
<p>Boone, for starters, can you help us confirm the content types that will be removed when an account is deleted? Posts, pages, uploaded media, files in any Group libraries, etc? Is it easy to get a list of those?</p>
<p>Then we will figure out how much to say on the screen itself, while linking out to documentation that covers the other deletion implications. We should at least say up front that before deleting your account, you should attempt to contact fellow admins of any jointly-managed Sites or Groups to ensure they have re-attributed anything they want to save before your deletion.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #18919 (Resolved): Settings and Inbox Mobile Testinghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/189192023-09-27T16:05:59ZColin McDonald
<p>As per the call yesterday, I'm setting up this ticket specifically for mobile testing feedback and tweaks on the Settings and Inbox tabs for the upcoming intermediate release. I have this as a subtask of the joint CV / Settings ticket <a class="issue tracker-15 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed parent" title="Design/UX: Profile CV & Account Settings (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17385">#17385</a> which maybe isn't the cleanest but seemed close enough.</p>
<p>We talked briefly about looking at how the Settings and Inbox tabs and subtasks stack in a mobile view and if we can adjust the spacing, improve the use of screen real estate, etc.</p>
<p>Sara and Ray, I'll leave this to your updates for now, and perhaps we can circle back on this with the other testers later this week.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #18846 (Resolved): Events page filterhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/188462023-09-15T16:37:23ZColin McDonald
<p>I'm having trouble getting the campus filter here to do anything:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/</a></p>
<p>The results don't seem to change no matter what box(es) are selected, and the total number of events at the bottom don't either. Or is this because these events aren't associated with a campus at all?</p>
<p>It's good to see 125 events popping up here, at least when I'm logged in -- there are only 4 when I use an incognito window -- though a lot of the 125 events are tied to individual classes and don't have a very broad appeal.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #18842 (Resolved): Launch/placement for accessibility contenthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/188422023-09-14T23:50:57ZColin McDonald
<p>Thanks to Scott and all who contributed to our draft of updated info regarding accessibility on the Commons. The latest draft is here if anyone wants to look:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uNRR0YAFYdewr3u5RDtsaSK37MqIZ9P4Dg-DqTQQt4g/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uNRR0YAFYdewr3u5RDtsaSK37MqIZ9P4Dg-DqTQQt4g/edit?usp=sharing</a></p>
<p>As Matt comments in the text, we want to split the content in half, with part going on the Help site (which Scott is already working on) and part going on a standalone page on the main site.</p>
<p>Boone, can I create a standalone page using my Commons admin account and just adding a new Page in the Wordpress dashboard? Is it best for me to choose a certain template, copy an existing page, etc?</p>
<p>Then we've discussed linking that new page from a few places:</p>
<p>- In the footer near Privacy and Terms of Service (can I update this, or is it better for Dev to?)<br />- In the blade on the About page above Project Staff that links to Privacy Policy et al (I can do this in Wordpress)<br />- If that blade link isn't prominent enough, we could also put a link on About in the top section near (or as part of?) the Mission Statement, or put something more notable underneath Project Staff, perhaps above Site Governance with a sentence or two.</p>
<p>We've also talked about setting up a News post about this, but I'm not clear yet on how/whether this will reframe/appropriate content from the draft we've been working on or add a new spin.</p>
<p>We'll also link the new page to the help site pages and vice versa as a final step. Please jump in with any steps or ideas I've missed!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #18841 (New): Downtime planninghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/188412023-09-14T23:27:45ZColin McDonald
<p>In light of recent issues with our server, we'd like to have a more concrete plan in place should the Commons experience significant downtime. Let's gather ideas, next steps, and preparatory materials here.</p>
<p>As a starting point, during the last few meetings we discussed establishing a Commons archive or backup. We need to hash out what that would mean:</p>
<p>- What content would we save and what wouldn't we?<br />- Would we save full site/group configurations (members, preferences, etc) prioritize Library and Media uploads, etc?<br />- Where would this archive live, and how would it be updated/tested/maintained?<br />- What would be the plan for using this in the event of an outage?<br />- Could we maintain an external list of site/group admin emails for emergency outreach?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #18565 (New): Groups Redesignhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/185652023-08-08T18:06:26ZColin McDonald
<p>I realized on the call today that we don't have a ticket set up for our ongoing work on redesigning Groups (someone correct me if I'm wrong on this), so here it is.</p>
<p>Sara presented some initial designs on the dev call a couple of weeks ago, which she'll post here too when she can, and she'll continue to work on this as she can between higher-priority tickets/releases like <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed child" title="Feature: Account Settings Tab (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17769">#17769</a> Account Settings and <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed child" title="Feature: CV Editing and Publishing (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17768">#17768</a> CV.</p>
<p>In the meantime, let's collect any feedback, related tickets, etc. here so we have it for reference as needed. Our rough plan is to move this as far along as we can this fall, especially on the design side, so we can begin development in early spring 2024 for a release by the end of that semester.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #18150 (Resolved): Inbox tabhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/181502023-05-02T16:20:06ZColin McDonald
<p>Setting up another subtask of <a class="issue tracker-15 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed parent" title="Design/UX: Profile CV & Account Settings (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17385">#17385</a> to talk more about the Inbox tab, since Ray has moved the Settings tab along so much in <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed child" title="Feature: Account Settings Tab (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17769">#17769</a> and we have some time to look at Sara's unfinished-but-substantial work on the Inbox tab here still before she returns. Sara left this mockup:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.figma.com/proto/0Ke5bCwheE5SXXkT6wDd2l/CUNY-Design---Spring-2023?page-id=2900%3A84364&node-id=2903-93408&viewport=4098%2C6553%2C0.13&scaling=min-zoom">https://www.figma.com/proto/0Ke5bCwheE5SXXkT6wDd2l/CUNY-Design---Spring-2023?page-id=2900%3A84364&node-id=2903-93408&viewport=4098%2C6553%2C0.13&scaling=min-zoom</a></p>
<p>Ray had this point a while back in the Settings ticket:</p>
<p>- I remember Sara showing a mockup of a Commons Profile with three navigation rows. Right now, some of the Commons Profile and Inbox pages would benefit from having three rows such as "Commons Profile > Events" and "Commons Profile > Friends" and all the "Inbox" pages. I guess the subnav items for Events such as "Events > Manage" and "Events > Create" can be moved up to the Events Directory level, although "Events > Manage" has some items that are more specific to the current user such as the private iCalendar URL. The "Commons Profile > Friends > Requests" will probably be replaced with the new "Inbox" page, however we could probably move "Commons Profile > Friends > Requests" to "Inbox > Friend Requests" for now?</p>
<p>Boone helped get this planning started in <a class="issue tracker-15 status-1 priority-4 priority-default" title="Design/UX: Cataloguing notification types (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17677">#17677</a> when he broke out current notification types and cut a few out. Sara's page 3 mockup lists all of those out. I think we still need to decide on how to distribute those across the three proposed Inbox tabs of Messages, Notifications, and Invitations.</p>
<p>Boone also made the point that notifications can be divided up into those that require followup (like someone requesting group membership, and you're the admin) and those that are just informational (like someone accepting your friendship request).</p>
<p>I'm now wondering, looking back at all of this, if Messages, Notifications, and Invitations is the proper logic/language for the Inbox sub tabs. It seems like a lot of items would end up under Notifications, like this breakdown, and it may be difficult for users to differentiate between them at a glance:</p>
<p>Messages:<br />11. new_message - Created by BP for user A when A receives a private message</p>
<p>Notifications:<br />1. bbp_new_reply - Created by bbPress for user A when user B posts a reply to a forum topic or reply written by A.<br />2. friendship_accepted - Created by BP for user A when user B accepts a friendship request that A sent to B.<br />3. friendship_request - Created by BP for user A when user B sends a friendship request to A.<br />5. membership_request_accepted - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin approves the request<br />6. membership_request_rejected - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin rejects the request<br />7. member_promoted_to_admin - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'admin'<br />8. member_promoted_to_mod - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'mod'<br />9. new_at_mention - Created by BP for user A when A is at-mentioned anywhere tracked by BuddyPress. Notably for our purpose, this includes blog posts, blog comments, forum posts.<br />10. new_membership_request - Created by BP for user A when A is the admin of a private group, and user B requests membership in that group<br />12. pending_booking - Created by the events-manager plugin for user A when user A has created an event with booking, and user B books for that event. events-manager is not a plugin that we run on the main site, so this must be something that happens on secondary sites</p>
<p>Invitations:<br />4. group_invite - Created by BP for user A when user B invites A to join a group.<br />***Should/can private site invites be shown here?</p>
<p>Is another possible breakdown something like this, with more specific tab titles?</p>
<p>Messages<br />1. bbp_new_reply - Created by bbPress for user A when user B posts a reply to a forum topic or reply written by A.<br />9. new_at_mention - Created by BP for user A when A is at-mentioned anywhere tracked by BuddyPress. Notably for our purpose, this includes blog posts, blog comments, forum posts.<br />11. new_message - Created by BP for user A when A receives a private message</p>
<p>Friends<br />2. friendship_accepted - Created by BP for user A when user B accepts a friendship request that A sent to B.<br />3. friendship_request - Created by BP for user A when user B sends a friendship request to A.</p>
<p>Groups & Sites<br />4. group_invite - Created by BP for user A when user B invites A to join a group.<br />5. membership_request_accepted - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin approves the request<br />6. membership_request_rejected - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin rejects the request<br />7. member_promoted_to_admin - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'admin'<br />8. member_promoted_to_mod - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'mod'<br />10. new_membership_request - Created by BP for user A when A is the admin of a private group, and user B requests membership in that group</p>
<p>Not sure:<br />12. pending_booking - Created by the events-manager plugin for user A when user A has created an event with booking, and user B books for that event. events-manager is not a plugin that we run on the main site, so this must be something that happens on secondary sites</p>
<p>And could we also just have an All tab where you see everything?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #17769 (Resolved): Account Settings Tabhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/177692023-03-04T22:14:14ZColin McDonald
<p>The profile/account redesign will have several components, including those like Inbox/Notifications that aren't fully fleshed out yet.</p>
<p>We've agreed that the Settings tab is in a good place for Sara to submit assets for development though, so we can have this as a starting point for building out the wider redesign while she is away through April.</p>
<p>I'm breaking the workflow for the tab off into this ticket, a subtask of the main ticket at <a class="issue tracker-15 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed parent" title="Design/UX: Profile CV & Account Settings (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17385">#17385</a>.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #17768 (Resolved): CV Editing and Publishinghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/177682023-03-04T21:46:37ZColin McDonald
<p>Sara is going to post her latest mockups here for the Draft / Save Draft / Publish flow we've been talking about for CVs, including other elements of the publishing and editing sequence. This will be the handover we discussed to begin development while Sara is away through April.</p>
<p>Jeremy especially, let's use this subtask of the main Profile / Settings ticket <a class="issue tracker-15 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed parent" title="Design/UX: Profile CV & Account Settings (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17385">#17385</a> to track our progress on this.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #17416 (New): Sunsetting Digital Research Tools featurehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/174162022-12-20T17:21:03ZColin McDonald
<p>We decided during last week's dev call to sunset the Digital Research Tools (I believe referred to in the past here as the DiRT Integration category I just selected, but correct me if I'm wrong). The public URL for this directory is:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/tool/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/tool/</a></p>
<p>It seems there may be a bug here, as clicking "Show all users" for any tool doesn't ever seem to show more than one user, which is unlikely. Rather than fixing that though, we looked at Google Analytics for that URL (see attached) that suggests along with anecdotal evidence that this feature is rarely used.</p>
<p>Especially as Sara looks to simplify the profile layout in <a class="issue tracker-15 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed parent" title="Design/UX: Profile CV & Account Settings (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17385">#17385</a>, this is a good candidate to remove. You can currently access "My Tools" from this link via your profile sidebar (also see screenshot):</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/colinmcd/tools/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/colinmcd/tools/</a></p>
<p>During the dev call, Matt said that we should document this feature with some screenshots and perhaps a little bit about its original goals -- building community around users of a certain DiRT, introducing users to new tools, etc. -- and how the feature worked before we remove it entirely. It will be good to have as a reference, and who knows, maybe we revisit someday. Scott, I'm adding you as a watcher, if you don't mind taking this on.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #17102 (New): Universal footer revisions for ToS / CChttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/171022022-10-25T16:06:51ZColin McDonald
<p>As part of our Creative Commons licensing and display overhaul, we want to edit the universal footer that appears across all Commons pages (see attached for its current state).</p>
<p>The main issue is the four links that appear under the nav items: Help, Privacy, Terms of Service, Creative Commons (CC) license unless otherwise noted.</p>
<p>(Incidentally, we have another project we should resolve here to update the text at some of these links: <a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/forum/topic/summer-project-review-of-commons-tos-privacy-policy-and-mission-statement-2/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/forum/topic/summer-project-review-of-commons-tos-privacy-policy-and-mission-statement-2/</a>)</p>
<p>I'm proposing we change the fourth link to say Creative Commons License Info, and then instead of linking to this general CC license page that we do now:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/</a></p>
<p>Instead we link to a new page of documentation that explains a few of the CC points we've made in recent meetings:</p>
<p>- CC-licensed content on the Commons is also subject to our ToS, which allows us to truncate, show excerpts, repurpose, etc as per the needs of our design and the Commons overall<br />- The overall Commons content philosophy and distinction: You own your content on the Commons, different than on almost any other platform or social network. Explain what this means, how you can protect/export/etc.<br />- You can change the CC license of your Commons content at any time, on a space-by-space level.<br />- You can also choose no CC license at all, later or during space setup, and retain all rights with the exception of the ToS allowances mentioned above.<br />- A section on CC licensing and OER, which would be related to <a class="issue tracker-2 status-1 priority-4 priority-default child" title="Feature: OER tag and CC licensing notification system (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17101">#17101</a></p>
<p>This version of the universal footer would only show up on our "core" Commons pages, like the homepage and directories -- we will need to spell out what this core contains.</p>
<p>A separate version would appear for this footer on individual Commons site and group pages, which will have their own licensing decisions and display. This version could just omit the fourth link to CC information, to reduce possible confusion there.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #17101 (New): OER tag and CC licensing notification systemhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/171012022-10-25T16:04:02ZColin McDonald
<p>We discussed in our last monthly meeting an idea to better link the OER tag during course site creation (or later editing such a site) with our Creative Commons licensing options.</p>
<p>It was proposed that if a user selects the OER tag, there would be an inline message if they have no CC license selected (either during the creation flow or on the site in Settings if the tag is being added later).</p>
<p>The message would say something like:</p>
<p>"We noticed that you have tagged your site as an OER but no CC license is present. Please CC license the open content, or the whole site in Settings>Writing. To learn more about open licensing visit our documentation [link TBD]."</p>
<p>Let's talk more about the mechanics of this, but I wanted to get the general idea down here.</p>