[Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

Tony Pearson tpearson at us.ibm.com
Thu Aug 14 13:21:15 EDT 2008


Tarun,
you bring up a good point.  What do we need to do to activate an email 
service on the XS server to allow this for moodle registrations?




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Tarun Pondicherry <tarunpondicherry at gmail.com> 
08/14/2008 09:20 AM

To
Pablo Flores <pflores2 at gmail.com>
cc
Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>, Tony Pearson/Tucson/IBM at IBMUS, 
glen at venango.org, marcel r <marcelr01 at gmail.com>, Said Ramirez 
<saidramirez0 at gmail.com>, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org>, 
server-devel at lists.laptop.org
Subject
Re: Testing EduBlog






Hi Pablo,
> Yes! It works now with the right link! (I had used the link of 
> EduBlog_Instructions).
Great!

Did you have a chance to look at the modified blog creation interface? 
I moved the settings into that page so teachers can directly link their 
own Blogger.com blogs rather than having an admin configuring the blogs 
for them.  I think this is easier to use.  However, we can revert to the 
other version if you disagree.
> 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 ;-)
Looking into it.
> 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.
Were you trying to post to a blog or create a new blog?  When you enrol 
you are by default a student so you can post to blogs and view them but 
not make new ones.  I tested creating a new account and these links 
work.  To create a new blog, an admin needs to set your account to a 
teacher level.

How do you envision the ideal process for user registration for our 
test?  (I think when fully completed and installed on the XS, Moodle 
will authenticate based on the MAC address of the XO)
> 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?
Moodle gives us several authentication options.  I will try to implement 
what you are suggesting as an auth module.  Students can just register 
without any confirmation.  Also, email based registration won't work 
because as far as I know, the XS does not have an email service.

Thanks,
Tarun
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Tarun Pondicherry 
> <tarunpondicherry at gmail.com <mailto: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
>     <http://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
>
>         <
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>
>         <mailto: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>>
>                <mailto: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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