Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features (Greg Smith)

[Bryan Berry]

Greg wrote:
>Thanks for keeping us apprised of your needs!

My pleasure.

>I'm also not aware of any feasible design proposal which might address 
>your request. You need a precedent or engineering level suggestion to 
>move this forward. Is this possible in Firefox at all?

Probably not.

We had two evaluators spend a week at both of our pilot schools and the
consistent feedback they came back w/ was
1) The teachers want lesson plans integrated w/ the activities
2) The parents don't see the learning activities as anything more than
games.

This was constructive feedback they gave us. I am happy to report that
the kids, teachers, and parents were overwhelmingly positive about this
project.

We need a way to seamlessly integrate supporting materials such as
readings, lesson plans, together with activities. HTML is the way to do
this and the browser is what we use to display html. URI's are what we
use to link to different resources.

We may end up hacking Browse esp. to allow this because of the immense
demand.

We need to make it dead simple for teachers to use activities like
EToys, E-Paath, Measure in the classroom. The easiest way to do this is
to make the transition from lesson plan to activity as easy as possible.

>I think that having a URL launch a local application will 
>be a fatal security hole. I don't know of any examples of that off the 
>top of my head.

I don't know squat about security but this is a very important application.

>My guess is that you need to re-think your Moodle 
><-> activity model and work flow. If can solve the problem from there 
>using the currently available functionality that will be the shortest 
>path to a solution.

I have rethought it and I believe more firmly that the moodle <->
activity workflow is the way to go.

>On your second point, I think the thread has been productive. I marked 
>the bug a blocker for 8.2.0. I think we will close it by including the 
>remove via Journal solution unless Eben can be convinced of a better 
>implementation.

as long as we can remove activities installed w/ the customization key
or by other means.

>BTW I stored your other request sent on the process thread in my 
>requirement gathering folder.

thank you for your attention to these important matters. You should come out to 
Nepal one of these days. As I told one of the developers recently:
Get Thee to a Pilot site! Any Pilot site!

Bryan
Kathmandu