[Building Sakai] Question sharing in Mneme

[Adrian Fish]

Maybe you don't have to dream. Make your dreams a reality with our 
special 'Sever the connection between questions and worksites' technique.

Seriously though ...

What do you see a question belonging to? A pool? A person? A worksite? 
Currently a question is attached to the site in which it was created, 
via the CONTEXT column in the mneme_question table. What's to stop you 
just severing that connection at the question level and giving a 
question a set of owners in the form of Sakai user ids? Do the same for 
pools and that would mean that whatever site you were in you would be 
able to browse and choose from questions that you have rights to. It 
would add more flexibility

I realise I'm probably oversimplifying things here but there can't be 
that many technical hurdles to loosening the coupling between questions 
and sites?

On the whole Mneme's a very nice tool. Easy to use and snappy.

Cheers,

Adrian.

Vivie Sinou wrote:
>> Hi Vivie,
>>
>> Thanks for the swift reply and that will do the trick. It 
>> seems a bit heavy though, copying everything and then cleaning 
>> up; wouldn't it make more sense to have an actual pool of 
>> questions to pick from so that the same question could be 
>> referenced in many different assessments?
>>     
>
> No disagreement here. Certainly, Adrian - that would be nice functionality
> to have / implement in the future. It is not available at this time. 
>
> We would like to add selective 'import' AND 'export' of pools - not only for
> sharing of pools with others, but also for selective copying of materials
> from one's site to another site that they own. Import from site could be
> much more powerful and flexible in this way across our Etudes and Sakai
> tools. We'd like to see that -- or dream about it for now...
>
> Best, 
> Vivie 
>
> --
> Vivie Sinou 
> Executive Director, Etudes, Inc.
> http://etudes.org/
>
>
>   

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