[Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

[Samuel Klein]

Yes, a slideshow would be good. (with a link to a demo for anyone who wants
to test on their own :-)

SJ

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Tarun Pondicherry <
tarunpondicherry at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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