My Workspace

When you first login to OWL-Space, you will begin at My Workspace. My Workspace is your personal site on OWL-Space, a private area which has many of the same tools as a regular OWL-Space site. My Workspace also manages how you interact with OWL-Space as a whole.

The Home page of My Workspace shows the OWL-Space message of the day, a calendar showing your events from all your OWL-Space sites, the recent announcements among all OWL-Space sites to which you belong, and general information about My Workspace. The Message of the Day, Calendar, and My Workspace Information sections can be customized by clicking on Options immediately below the section title. Announcements can be filtered by using the selection boxes.

To the left are the links for OWL-Space tools of My Workspace.

Profile allows you to enter basic personal information about yourself, including a picture, and choose whether or not to make that information public. You can edit or view your profile, and can search for other users profiles by using the search box on the right.

Membership shows a list of which OWL-Space sites you belong to, and allows you to resign your membership of any site by clicking on Unjoin. By clicking on Joinable Sites, you can view all OWL-Space sites which are open for new members. You can join one of these sites by clicking on Join. Click on My Current Sites to return to the list of sites to which you belong.

Schedule works as described in the Schedule section, but shows events from all OWL-Space sites to which you belong, along with any personal events you enter through My Workspace. There is no merge option since all events are already displayed.

Resources shows any resources that you add to My Workspace. Also, by clicking on Show other sites, you can access resources from any of the OWL-Space sites to which you belong.

Announcements shows announcements from all OWL-Space sites to which you belong, and you may filter and navigate them with the selection boxes and buttons. My Workspace only allows viewing of announcements. It is not possible to make announcements in My Workspace.

Worksite Setup allows you to manage any OWL-Space site that you have instructor/administrator-level access to, similar to the Site Info tool of an individual course or project site. Select the site you wish to manage by checking the box to the left of the site in the list, then click on Edit. See Site Info Tool for more details on setting up your OWL-Space site with this tool.

Preferences allows you to set options that affect how you interact with all your OWL-Space sites. At the top are four choices. Notifications allows you to set how and when you will be sent emails when new items are available in Announcements, Email Archive, Resources, or Syllabus for any site to which you belong. Customize Tabs allows you to choose which of your OWL-Space sites appear in your navigation tabs, and what order they are in. Time zone allows you to pick what time zone you want dates and times to appear in. Language allows you to pick which language you want OWL-Space to use (some items may still appear in English, and user submitted content is not affected by language choice). After making any new choices, press the Update Preferences button to apply them.

Account allows you to view and change your OWL-Space account details. You can edit your name, email address, and password.

The News, Web Content, and Wiki tools work the same in My Workspace as they do in other OWL-Space sites.

The Help tool opens a separate help window containing the help documentation for Sakai, the software that OWL-Space is built upon.