[Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

[Tarun Pondicherry]

Hi SJ,

I'll put it up on the wiki.  The live version is still a bit volatile, 
is a video or slideshow okay?  Otherwise, I'll transfer the latest 
stable to the main site for you to give a live demo.

Thanks,
Tarun

Samuel Klein wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>         <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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