[Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

[Samuel Klein]

I'd like to show off the state of the edublog this Friday over lunch --
Tarun, is there a short 3-minute demo that you'd like me to give?

SJ

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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