[Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

[Greg Smith]

Hi Pablo,

Looks good! Thanks for helping us clarify the final steps before Beta 
and for lining up the beta sites!

I copied in the server list and I'll let Tarun comment on any that he 
can address.

My only comment is that I would like to make it work without login 
needed by students but we can solve that later if its not ready in the 
first pass.

Also for Tarun et al. Pablo is creating a home page with doc on EduBlog 
for the beta: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog

If we can easily update browse-new (maybe browse-new2?) to use that as 
its home page it will facilitate making this easy.

Thanks,

Greg S

Pablo Flores wrote:
> I've just done a test sequence on EduBlog and have a lot of comments and
> questions, so let's start step by step...
> 
> *Creating a new blog
> *
> 
>    - The login page isn't in spanish
>    - I'm not sure how to manage users with EduBlog.... I think we should
>    start a wiki page to start documenting (and discussing it). Volunteers? :-)
>    - In the "Adding a new OU blog" form, I can't access the "Manage Remote
>    Blogs" button, it takes me to a page that says "Sorry, but you do not
>    currently have permissions to do that ([[oublog:manageremoteblogs]]) More
>    information about this
> error<http://docs.moodle.org/en/error/moodle/nopermissions>".
>    *
>    - It would be better if some options could be hidden, like "Common module
>    settings".
> 
> *New blog post*
> 
>    - From the moodle interface, I couldn't upload any picture. I could use
>    the other interface (
>    http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/editpost.php?blog=2),
>    but with this one I cannot select the blog to post to. *
>    - I tried to upload a Write document, but I couldn't from any of the
>    interfaces (am I doing right? I tried to upload the file as an image).
> 
> I marked with * the points I find more important.
> 
> I also would like to summarize some points of how the daily work would be.
> Let's see...
> 
>    - First of all, the teacher will have to get a user and password for the
>    system.
>    - The teacher creates a new blog using the interface
>    http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublog&type=&course=2&section=0&return=0
>    - All of her children have to get a user and password.
>    - Then, the teacher can propose some work to be done, for which children
>    will have to make their posts to the blog. To do so, children will have to
>    access to the blog page (the moodle one), and click on "New blog post".
>    - As children submit their posts, the teacher will be able to see them in
>    the blog page. Children will only see their own posts and the ones already
>    approved by the teacher. Question: How can a child know if his post was
>    approved?
>    - The approved posts will go public, depending on the configuration: If
>    there is a remote blog configured (blogspot for instance), they will appear
>    there. If it's local only, it will be seen by others, depending on the
>    visibility configuration of the blog.
> 
> All agree with this?
> 
> Saludos,
> Pablo Flores
>