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Session Revision
1 Description
This page brings together several suggestions for improving the course sessions (see: Course session view, File Handling in Sessions and Session Screen.
We will implement a new order for the input fields. This order follows the importance of the information and will be conformant to the session presentation as well:
- New Session
- "All Day Event"
- Start of Session
- End of Session
- Recurrences
- Session Information
- Title (no longer required)
- Description
- Programme (was Details/Workflow)
- Location
- About Lecturer
- Further Settings
- Registration
When adding date and time information to the start date, the date value is added to the end date input field automatically (an end date can never be before the start date). This avoids double work for one day events (99%) and errors for several days' events.
B. File Handling and Course Material Assignment
We offer no longer a file upload dialogue on the session creation screen but an additional course material screen that can be called with a new button "Add Session and Assign Materials". On this new screen a user can assign existing course materials (as already known) or add new material with the "Add New Item" pop-up (as known from the course, group or category object.
Like now, there will be three views on a session:
- Minimal view: only the session title is displayed
- Detailed view: session title, description, time of session, course materials
- Info view: date&time plus session title (as headline), description, workflow, course materials, location, about lecturer, additional information (metadata), tagging, notes
To support better identification of the next session, it shall be highlighted using a background colour (should be the same colour as for "today" in the calendar).
Sessions in the "simple course view" can be opened in detailed view as well (plus icon).
Comments: For sessions of several days' duration the 'time of session' field in the detailed view shows also start and end date of the session. For one day sessions this information is hidden.
D. Edit Participants
The list of participants of a session is distinguished between Administrators, Tutors and Members (as known from the members view of a course.
When creating a participation list, a user can choose which role members should appear in this list (only course members or also course tutors and administrators).
Further development: Participation List
2 Status
- Scheduled for Release: ILIAS 4.0, ILIAS 4.1 (Follow-Up)
- Funding: Funded by ILIAS-Verein
- Development: Feature is to be developed by LEIFOS
3 Additional Information
- If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: Matthias Kunkel
4 Discussion
- ad A: Changes are accepted. But "Add Files" should remain on session creation screen (in new look).
- ad B: Form to add a file gets new look and remains on creation screen. Unlike the current implementation, these files become repository objects and are listed in the course and also in "Assign Materials". The new link "Add Session and Assign Material" (as suggested in A) will direct to the existing "Assign Course Materials" but without pop-up to "Add New Item". This suggestion is to complicated to realise and provokes errors.
- ad C: We discussed intensively the need of a "detailed view" (plus icon). We would highly appreciate to reduce the session presentation to two views:
- a basic presentation of a session with title=date&time&title (title is not required) and description
- a detailed presentation of the entire content (all metadata and course materials) on the "Info" page.
- additionally we want to offer the possibility to show only the actual sessions (e.g. the last two and the next two sessions) to reduce the number of presented sessions in the course content view. Better highlighting of the current session is accepted. The plus/minus icons would vanish (and hopefully reduce user's irritation). Assigned course materials are only shown in the course content view when "Multi Commands / All Commands" is enabled (because this improves usability for course administrators).
- ad D: all accepted.
There have been some complaints about the current (alhpa) implementation that presents all information on one screen (like envisaged in the JF in May) and abandons the [+] icon view. One disadvantage is that the user is leaving the context of the course screen, when the session title is clicked. The [+] icon view keeps him on the course page and allows "quickly" to switch certain sessions on and off.
However we must address the problem, that information overseen by students, because it is only presented on the info page.
If we keep both views (the info page and the [+] icon view), we must display all information in both views. So the [+] view must display
- Date/Time
- Location
- Name/E-Mail/Phone of Lecturer
- Workflow
- All Materials
JF, 13 July 2009: We currenlty do not see another option, beside showing all information, but are unsure about the resulting look of the presentation (since a lot of data will be displayed). We will discuss this with Matthias and tackle this during beta phase.
JF 29 July 2009: The feature "Limit Number of Sessions" should be named "Number of Sessions Initially Shown". On top we need a link "5 Earlier Sessions..." and on the bottom "4 Upcoming Sessions..." if more session exist. After a click the sessions are listed folded. We go back and show a [+] view. We will try to show all information and get feedback during beta phase.
5 Follow-up
YS, HL:
First: If we sort material in the (+)-View, and then, if we change to the Info-view, the sorting should be the same. All other solutions are strange.
Second: If a user clicks in a large course to a (+), then ILIAS should stay at this position and should show the chosen session-content. At the moment, ILIAS jumps to the top of the page. Do you find a solution (maybe with anchors?).
Third: If we have a session at the actual date (today), this session should be open (automatically).
Fourth: If we have two sessions open today (or tomorrow, ...), both sessions should be open (automatically).
JF 8 Mar 2010: We agree on all issues. ILIAS should open session that have taken place in the last 24 hours or will take place in the upcoming 24 hours.
- The sorting of session materials on the Info Screen is now adopted from the sorting in the course content presentation.
- Anchors are used for expanding/collapsing sessions.
- All sessions starting today or tomorrow are opened automatically.
Last edited: 17. Apr 2025, 15:11, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]