[Building Sakai] Question sharing in Mneme

[Vivie Sinou]

It's a matter of priorities, Adrian. That's all. Easy enough to do. We'll
get to this user / Jira requirement when its time comes. 

Best,
Vivie

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adrian Fish [mailto:a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk] 
>Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 7:31 AM
>To: Vivie Sinou
>Cc: 'Sakai Dev Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Question sharing in Mneme
>
>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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