Loyola Support Documentation

What is the Chat Room tool?

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The Chat Room is a real-time, text-only chat tool within a site. The Chat Room tool can be used for synchronous, unstructured conversations among site participants who are logged into the site at the same time. Only participants enrolled in the same site may chat using the Chat Room.

The Chat Room tool supports multiple rooms and the default room can be set by the site owner. For example, instructors may choose to create an "Online Office Hours" chat room for student questions and answers. Chat rooms for student groups can also be set up as a space to collaborate among group members across distances.

The Chat Room tool alerts users to other participants who have entered the same chat room. This way, users know who is available to talk.

Site owners can specify how many chat messages are archived and for how long, or they can allow participants to configure their own archive settings.

The Chat Room tool does not provide a way to chat privately. By default, all messages are visible to all participants.

How do I merge external calendars?

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The Merge External Calendar option allows you to subscribe to external calendars such as an institutional calendar, or a web calendar (Google, Outlook, etc.) in iCal format.

Note: This feature has some limitations:

• It does not support all-day events.
• It only supports events defined with <VEVENT>.
• It does not support re-occurring events.
• It does not support events without an end time.

What is the admin Memory tool?

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The admin Memory tool allows administrators to view cache sizes in order to better optimize performance.

Sakai's default cache sizes and expiration settings are conservative and most likely need to be adjusted at large institutions.

All caches should be adjustable in Sakai 10.0+ with a simple modification to the sakai.properties file.

Adjust the caching of users especially if you use the JLDAP provider. This example will cache up to 50k users for up to half a day each:

• memory.org.sakaiproject.user.api.UserDirectoryService.callCache=timeToLiveSeconds=43400,timeToIdleSeconds=0,maxElementsInMemory=50000

Adjust the realm/role group cache to retain items in the cache for two hours:

• memory.org.sakaiproject.authz.impl.DbAuthzGroupService.realmRoleGroupCache=timeToLiveSeconds=7200,maxElementsInMemory=0

The user/site cache keeps track of the sites associated with the user:

• memory.org.sakaiproject.site.api.SiteService.userSiteCache=timeToLiveSeconds=86400,timeToIdleSeconds=0

The security service cache retains information about permission requests (e.g., can user xxxx do asn.submit in /site/abc):

• memory.org.sakaiproject.authz.api.SecurityService.cache=timeToLiveSeconds=86400,timeToIdleSeconds=0

How do I view Memory Status?

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Select the Memory tool from the Tool Menu of the Administration Workspace.

How do I modify Calendar permissions?

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Select the Calendar tool from the Tool Menu in your site.

How do I purge softly deleted sites?

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Softly deleted sites are no longer accessible to users, but their files and tool content still remain on the server. To completely remove these sites and all of their data from the system, the administrator may run a Quartz job to expunge softly deleted sites.

How do I import Calendar entries from a file?

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Select the Calendar tool from the Tool Menu in your site.

How do I view running jobs?

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Select the Job Scheduler tool from the Tool Menu in the Administration Workspace.

How do I merge the Calendar with another site?

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If you would like to combine calendar items from two or more sites, you may choose to merge the calendars.

Remember that all calendar entries for sites you have access to are automatically merged in your Home Calendar.

Note: You must have appropriate level permissions (i.e., calendar owner) to merge calendars. Merged calendar items will only be visible for site participants who are active in both sites.

How do I delete a job?

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Select the Job Scheduler tool from the Tool Menu in the Administration Workspace.