[Server-devel] offline moodle

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> hey Tony, this is a good start. I have a somewhat different workflow in
> mind. Here is a narrative that describes what I am thinking
>
> User Story 1: Intermittent School attendance and School Server Outage

Your user story is roughly what offline moodle is aiming for, except
that by the magic of using GG, step 5 'downloads' content  (and JS
code) _to Browse_. Content that Browse can navigate locally, even if
the network server is not available.

So instead of opening a dedicated 'activity', users go to Browse and
when they click on the 'Schoolserver' link Gears takes over (if the XS
is not reachable) and they can use offline moodle.

> The key here is that we need to package each offline moodle course as
> an .XO Activity Bundle. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles

IMO that path would be a huge amount of work, and a bit of a dead end
WRT updates and such. Cant' really recommend it. It is also a bespoke
effort- nothing else supports activity bundles, so there's no
incentive for Moodle to remain compatible to it.

cheers,



m
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