[Building Sakai] release 1 SP1 of Lesson Builder

[Warwick Chapman]

Hi All

I really like the sound of this.  Does it build for 2.7.1?

-- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Hedrick Charles <hedrick at rutgers.edu>wrote:

> I have just tagged RC1 for a release 1 of lesson builder. We're planning a
> release 1 for use in the Spring.
>
> I've recently put a lot of work into the UI. You can now do the equivalent
> of Moodle lessons, with branching depending upon how you answer a question.
> (You insert the question as a text box, and then put buttons or links under
> it for the answers.)
>
> If you had installed a previous version, please update, if only for
> security reasons. A minor database change should happen automatically as
> long as auto.ddl is on.
>
> See the confluence page,
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/LB/Contrib+-+Lesson+Builder,
> for more information and a few screen shots.
>
> ================
>
> Lesson Builder is a way to structure content. Use cases include
>
>    - Online courses, which often want to structure material by unit or
>    week. It must be easy to link to quizes and assignments, and to handle
>    common types of content.
>    - Online training, which needs to define sequences of material.
>    - Online certification, which needs to require certain items to be
>    done, and sometimes to limit access until prerequistes are met.
>
> Major features
>
>    - The tool is intended to be present more than once in a site. Each
>    unit or week of a course might be a separate instance, appearing in the left
>    margin.
>
>
>    - The primary interface for faculty is a page editor modeled
>    conceptually on the Sakai 3 page editor. You can insert any combination of
>    widgets. These include web content (with the usual FCK editor), resources
>    (either as separate windows or inline in an iframe), and individual
>    tests/quizes (currently only Samigo, but Mneme support is planned),
>    assignments, and discussion forum topics (from Message Center Discussion or
>    JForum). We try to use an appropriate player for all multimedia content
>    types. You can reorder pages using a drag and drop reorder tool from the
>    Fluid project. There is introductory documentation builtin.
>
>
>    - For tools we don't support, if you can invoke them by a URL, you can
>    insert it, and we'll do the Javascript magic to adjust the size of the
>    iframe properly.
>
>
>    - In addition to these pages that appear in the left margin, additional
>    pages may be created. These can be either subpages or "next" pages. (The
>    difference is whether breadcrumbs show a return to the current page or
>    whether the new page replaces the current one.) You can also choose to add
>    links to existing pages. You can use a button instead of a link. The most
>    common approaches will probably be (1) a link to a subpage, (2) a "next"
>    button at the bottom of a page going to a new page, (3) a Moodle-style
>    dispatch, with buttons for several pages, labelled as answers to a question.
>
>
>    - It is possible to set items to be required. A page is marked as
>    finished when all required items have been done. For tests and assignments
>    you can specify a minimum score.
>
>
>    - It is possible to set items so that they are not accessible until all
>    required items above them have been done.
>
>
>    - It is possible to hide an instance, and to release on a specific
>    date. Currently we can't hide individual pages, but only the set of pages
>    that appear as a single entry in the left margin. When an instance is
>    hidden, you can optionally hide all the tests, quizes and assignments that
>    appear in the instance. (To be compatible with the way we do selective
>    release, this is done by creating a group for the quiz or assignment,
>    initially with no one in it, and making the quiz/assignment released to that
>    group. When an item is marked as not available until other items have been
>    completed, the same group is used, with people being added to the group as
>    they complete the prerequisites.)
>
>
>    - We think the tool is fully internationalized. (I put it that way
>    because I keep finding hardcoded English text.) There is a group planning to
>    use it in Spanish.
>
>
>    - I have made an attempt to make it accessible, but I'd appreciate
>    reviews by actual users of assistive technology.
>
>
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