On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Tarun Pondicherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've finally figured out how to get ou blog working.
Cool. > This we'd have to do with any design approach, so its no problem doing this > within the OU Blog Module. But, I don't think its enough for early > deployments; the UI also needs to be simplified. Well, you can't tell what options to remove until you get real users using it, and you spot which options they don't use ;-) > This seems like a significant task to me, but perhaps doable with your > guidance! Several things must be done: I wasn't intending to put all of in on your shoulders... > - Make Moodle render well in Browse I know. I am expecting some help on that... So if you can make do initially with a spartan moodle theme and a simplified course (remove blocks!). Or are you seeing specific big bugs? > - Automatically authenticate so that students can directly access the post > blog entry page w/o logging in and navigating to it That's a Browse + XS issue. I will be trying to coordinate this next week. > - Simplify the HTML Editor in Moodle All html editors have complex UIs. And writing an html editor *is* incredibly complex. So simplifying a UI is the easiest task. In any case, (a) there's an option to disable the htmleditor and (b) there's a simple patch that allows you to replace the html editor with something else (peiple use it to play with FK editor and others) > - Simplify the way Moodle is installed and configured (even I had difficulty > with setting up ou blog!) Package all this (.deb, .rpm) > - Remove all the complicated options We'll hide all that :-) > If the teachers in Uruguay don't already use Moodle, they will also need to > be taught how to set up courses, etc. The blog can be a sitewide blog - either using teh vanilla moodle blog, or a oublog in the "sitecourse" (aka the front page). IF they mainly want to use the blog, it will be right there, no need to fiddle w courses... (Of course, they'll want to know more about moodle anyway ;-) ) > I realize that a lot of this will have to get done anyway, so I'm wondering > how much the Moodle on XS team plans to finish by August. So far the Moodle on XS team looks like: - Julian Ridden - has offered to build a theme for us - Gary Anderson has also offered help re theming http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=73022 - me! I am right now @ a MoodleMoot - my main goal here is to get more people involved... > This will give us > a better idea of what work we need to focus on to get something working by > August if we use Moodle. Agreed. m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel