Create a new tool, "Synoptic", to include on the users’ Home page. This tool should display in summary form, and grouped by site, pending items as well as other customised data. ---------------------------------- Entornos de Formación S.L. C/ Bailén, nº 4. 46007 Valencia (España) Web: http://www.entornosdeformacion.com SlideShare: https://es.slideshare.net/SalvaP Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/entornosdeformacion

1. SAKAI SYNOPTIC TOOL
Create a new tool, "Synoptic", to include on the
users’ Home page. This tool should display in
summary form, and grouped by site, pending items
as well as other customised data.

2. Case Study : SYNOPTIC TOOL
Customer profile :
A university offering only distance learning
Business Situation:
It is very important to the client that students have
access to summarised information about the courses
on which he/she is registered.
In the virtual Sakai campus, tools exist that show
summary information for some new items, although
they do not group this information. However, there is
no tool that summarises information grouped from
various tools and sites at the same time.
This is why this development was implemented, at
the request of a customer requiring this information.
The Challenge :
Create a new tool, "Synoptic", to include on the users’
Home page. This tool should display in summary
form, and grouped by site, pending items (at the
request of the client: tasks, forums and messages), as
well as other customised data.
In addition, the sites had to be grouped according to
the particular hierarchy for that customer.

3. Case Study : SYNOPTIC TOOL
Solution :
We decided to develop this new tool using the Apache Wicket framework for the graphical interface (https://wicket.apache.org),
and by obtaining the relevant information for each tool to be queried depending on the services they offered.
As a final result, the user will get a list of sites arranged hierarchically according to the specifications of the customer, where
for each site the following will be displayed:
● Course start date.
● Course end date.
● Pending tasks.
● Pending forums.
● Pending private messages.
● Final grade (if published).
In addition: Site property customised for the client
● The title of each site is a link that points to the site.
● The icon that displays "x pending items" is a link that points to that tool for that site.
It should be stressed that sites are grouped according to the customer’s hierarchy (through custom site properties)
Benefits :
Users can see at a glance pending elements on the different sites to which they have access, as well as other supplementary
information. In addition, they can quickly access the tools concerned on the relevant sites.