[Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

[Pablo Flores]

Yes! It works now with the right link! (I had used the link of
EduBlog_Instructions).
I could post well from th XO this way. 2 comments:
- The cursor does not appear in the text area when writing the body.
- It's not possible to handle the size of the image... However, this could
wait for version 2 ;-)

Now, let's talk about the user management.
With my new user pflores I could login, then it asked me if I am sure to
enroll to the course, y clicked Yes and it appears a banner: "Sorry, but you
do not currently have permissions to do that (Manage activities)". I posted
a screenshot of this in my new blog (blog creado desde
XO<http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/view.php?id=15>).
When I hit "Continue" it takes me back to the home page.

The other question is: How will children create their own account if it
needs an administrator approval? It might become a bit impractical... Maybe
it's better not needing the approval, and if there is some trouble, the
admin can delete unwanted users, what you think?

Now I'm gonna create a blog and give a teacher the instructions to work it
in the class...

Saludos,
Pablo Flores


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Tarun Pondicherry <
tarunpondicherry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Pablo,
>
> I realized that the links on the homepage were pointing to the old pages.
>  I updates the links at wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog.  Please let me know if
> that resolves the first issue you mentioned.
>
> Thanks,
> Tarun
>
> Pablo Flores 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?
>>
>>
>>
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