[Server-devel] EduBlog: Teacher Review Options

[Greg Smith]

Hi Tarun,

That sounds OK in general but I have a few comments and clarifications.

Make sure the kids know if their post is going to the teacher or 
directly to the blog.

I think the "internal" vs. "external" or "local" vs. "remote" 
designations were meant to separate blogs which are on the local school 
server and only visible from within the school network vs. blogs that 
are on the internet and visible from anywhere on the internet.

We can get rid of that concept and assume that the blog name will be 
familiar to the kids and they will know which posts go to the internet.

The other separation is between blog posts which must be edited/approved 
by the teacher vs. those that get posted to the blog directly without 
further edit. That is what the teacher can select and what I hope the 
kids see from their blog entry page.

Also, we still want the option to post to more than one blog (e.g. post 
to frog blog on Moodle or to turtle blog on blogger.com or to grade 1 
blog on blogger etc.). The teacher should have the ability to enable one 
or the other blog for the kids.

HTHs. Let me know if that input is not clear or doesn't answer your 
questions.

Once we get a look at it (hopefully next week) I think it will become 
more clear.

Thanks,

Greg S

Tarun Pondicherry wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I think we should separate the teacher approval from remote blogging 
> features to make the system more flexible.  It will make it easier to 
> implement and I think easier to use.  It will also allow people to use 
> remote blogging and teacher approval independently.
> 
> What I suggest is the following:
> 
> On the teacher's create blog page - Under the teacher approval section, 
> two checkbox options enable teacher approval and enable direct posting.  
> Under the remote blogging options section, a checkbox to send posts 
> directly to the remote site or store them locally when students post
> On the student's create post page - A selectbox asking what to do with 
> the post (send to teacher or post to blog or both depending on the 
> checkboxes the teacher selected under the teacher approval section)
> 
> When a student posts, sending to teacher will publish it locally so only 
> people with edit privileges can view the post (that student and the 
> teacher).  Clicking post will post the blog locally and if the teacher 
> has send posts directly selected, it will also be published remotely.
> 
> The teachers blog view page will have the options to post locally 
> (approve) or remotely (publish to remote blog) as needed.
> 
> The difference from the original idea is that students no longer can 
> select between send to local blog and send to remote blog.  The teacher 
> will have that preset.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tarun
>