[Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

[Tarun Pondicherry]

Hi Pablo,

The list of blogs shows up here: 
http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/index.php?id=3
My idea is that the teacher or student will start on that page, and then 
click on the blog they want to post to or manage.  Do you think that 
will work?

Thanks,
Tarun

Pablo Flores wrote:
> The other point I'm not understanding well is: How does the student or 
> the teacher choose in which blog she will post when going to the "New 
> blog post" link? 
> (http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/editpost.php?blog=4)
>
> Saludos,
> Pablo Flores
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Pablo Flores <pflores2 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pflores2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Tarun.
>
>     I'm afraid some things in EduBlog are not working as they should
>     when working in an XO.
>
>     I downloaded the last BrowseNew, which has the new homepage, that
>     is ok. When I go to the "Create new blog" link
>     (http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublog&type=&course=3&section=0&return=0
>     <http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublog&type=&course=3&section=0&return=0>),
>     it takes me to the moodle login in spanish, so far so good.
>
>     Then if I try to login with the user teacher, it takes me to an
>     error message that says: "This course doesn't exist", and a
>     "Continue" button. When I press it, it goes back to the home page.
>     The same happens if I login with the user teacheres. If then I go
>     again to the "Create new blog" link, I can see the courses page,
>     but it's not possible to create a new course, there is no link or
>     option for this.
>
>     Another problem I found trying to create a new user: I could fill
>     in the registration form, but it never sends me the confirmation
>     email, so I can't finish the process.
>
>     Other strange behaviour in the XO, is that the "logout" option
>     never appears in the top-right of the page.
>
>     I'll try to go on testing, but so far the administration is not
>     working from the XO...
>
>     Saludos,
>     Pablo Flores
>
>
>
>     On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Tarun Pondicherry
>     <tarunpondicherry at gmail.com <mailto:tarunpondicherry at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Hi Pablo,
>
>         The version downloadable from:
>         http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog_Instructions under the
>         heading "For Those with Build 656" has the new homepage.
>          Please let me know if it works.
>
>         About, the lang settings, when you go to any of the pages it
>         should be spanish (assuming your xo is using the spanish
>         localization).  If that does not work, then I will force the
>         setting to spanish and not try to detect the localization.
>
>         About multiple users, I was thinking that in a real school
>         each teachers and students have their own account.  Then, they
>         can do concurrent things without issues.  My concern is that
>         for the test it looks like we are going to use the same user
>         account for everyone which can cause problems.  If we can
>         create separate user accounts for all the teachers and
>         students testing, that would be ideal.
>
>         Thanks for taking the time to test this stuff out.
>
>         Tarun
>
>             Hi Tarun!
>             Thanks for the great work you are doing!
>
>             See comments below.
>
>             Saludos,
>             Pablo Flores
>
>
>             On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Tarun Pondicherry
>             <tarunpondicherry at gmail.com
>             <mailto:tarunpondicherry at gmail.com>
>             <mailto:tarunpondicherry at gmail.com
>             <mailto:tarunpondicherry at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>                Hi Pablo,
>
>                I tried to address most of these concerns in the
>             updated version.
>                 Please let me know if I got the attempted fixes right.
>
>
>             I'll try to take some time this afternoon to test the
>             system.  What I found with the previous version is that
>             BrowseNew didn't change its homepage. I talked with Greg
>             that it would be very simplifying for teachers and
>             children to make BrowseNew go straight to
>             http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog, a page I will get some
>             time to finish with the instructions to start to work.
>             Would it be possible to change this?
>
>
>
>                I'm also thinking about how to configure the language.
>              Currently,
>                it detects if the Browser is es or en and bases its
>             setting on
>                that.  We could also change it to force es not matter
>             what.  Which
>                do you think is better?
>
>             For us, both possibilities are good if they work well ;-)
>
>
>
>                Another concern I have is that if testers login at the
>             same time
>                with the same username, it may break things.  Is this
>             something to
>                worry about, or will the system be tested by one person
>             at a time?
>
>             Well, this may be a real problem working in a real school.
>             The normal workflow is that the teacher proposes something
>             to work in and blog about it, then children start to work
>             altogether.... what problems may happen?
>
>
>