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Sakai Help Document
Worksite
Information
Includes
Description
Putting information into the Worksite
Information box
Changing the size of the Worksite
Information box
To have a webpage appear in the worksite
information box
To have a text description show up in the
worksite information box
Description
On the home page of each course website,
there are boxes that can contain general information, recent
announcements, recent discussion items, and recent chat messages.
Putting information into
the Worksite Information box
1 Open a course
or project site.
2 Open the site's
home page if it is not already open by clicking the Home button in the
menubar.
3 Click the Options...
button in the Worksite Information box.
4 You will see
the following options:
Display this worksite's description
Display this URL
Changing the size of the
Worksite Information box
1 Open a course or project site.
2 Open the site's home page if it is not already
open by clicking the Home button in the menubar.
3 Click the Options... button in the Worksite Information box.
4 You can change the height of the frame (box) by
typing in a different number, for example, "150px."
5 Click Save.
To have a webpage appear
in the worksite information box
A Click the
circle next to Display this URL.
B Next, type the
URL (without http://) into the Source: field.
C Click Save.
To have a text description
show up in the worksite information box
A Click the
circle next to the Display Worksite Description
B Click Save
If you typed text into the
"description" box when you created the site, that text will appear in
the worksite information box on the home page. If you did not type text
in the description box at that time, you can add it now:
A Be sure you
have clicked Save or Cancel to leave the Options... page.
B Click My Workspace
C Click Worksite Setup
D Click the box
next to the course site.
E Click Revise.
F Under About
this site, click Site description
and information.
G Type a
description in the box provided.
H Click Save
I Click Finish
J Open that
course site again. The description should appear in the Worksite
Information box.
If you would like to
display an html file of your own, use the Display this URL option.
First, create the html file and upload it
into your site's Resources. Some find it convenient to make a folder
first, such as "site files," to hold the site's administrative files.
Once uploaded, you need to find the html file's URL to use in the
"Display this URL" field on the Options form, as described below:
A Highlight the
html file's URL in the Resources list.
B Using your browser's Copy command, copy the URL.
C Return to the
site's home page by clicking the Home
button at the top of the menubar.
D Click Options... in
the Worksite Information window.
E Click the round button next to Display this URL.
E Copy the URL into the Display this URL field
F Click Save
This puts the URL to the file into the
Display this URL field. Now the Worksite Information tool will display
your html file.