[Server-devel] offline moodle

[David Van Assche]

Have to agree with Martin... the concept of offline moodle is to get a
functioning offline version of moodle running locally... If then, the
teacher directs students to download .xo bundles from a repo or
something, sure why not, but no need to automate this into offline
moodle. It complicates and goes against what offline moodle is
supposed to be... Offline moodle is just a website... running locally
instead of over the network, as much for the teacher as the student,
they'll get all the content they need for the set period of time (this
set period of time is something that needs to be worked out... is it a
variable value, or what?)

That said, there were positive comments concerning Tony's work to date
by others, and the South American effort to make the offline moodle
using gears. They want to move away from using air to using gears
along lines of what's being done here. I shall link up Tony with them
so you can work out some sort of plan. I believe right now, the South
Americans are a bit close to getting their 'fin de curso' (end of
course) work done, but they want this to be a project that is not just
something for their school, but a global thing.... They are fighting
hard to let us see the code :-) but their university is against that
until they complete the project.

Kind Regards,
David Van Assche

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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