[Building Sakai] release 1 SP1 of Lesson Builder

[Adam Marshall]

Pretty good stuff! Thanks for making this available. It would be great to make it a core tool one day. Sakai really is lacking a tool like this.

Are you going to add more tools? I was hoping that polls would be included? 

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: sean at keesler.org [mailto:sean at keesler.org] On Behalf Of Sean Keesler
Sent: 20 December 2010 16:08
To: Adam Marshall
Cc: Hedrick Charles; Sakai-Dev Developers
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] release 1 SP1 of Lesson Builder

I have it up and running on an EC2 instance (its small...so be kind),
osp1.threecanoes.com.
usernames "teacher4" and "student8", password for both is "test".

This is not a big machine...let me know if it explodes and I'll
restart it...no guarantee that your data won't disappear if I refresh
it...disclaimer, disclaimer.....you know...


Sean Keesler
130 Academy Street
Manlius, NY 13104
315-682-0830
sean.keesler at threecanoes.com



On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Adam Marshall
<adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Is there a place where one can test-drive "Lesson Builder"? I'd love top
> have a play. Failing that do you have a screen cast so I can see a demo?
>
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> adam
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> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Hedrick
> Charles
> Sent: 18 December 2010 02:23
> To: Sakai-Dev Developers
> Subject: [Building Sakai] release 1 SP1 of Lesson Builder
>
>
>
> I have just tagged RC1 for a release 1 of lesson builder. We're planning a
> release 1 for use in the Spring.
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> 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.
>
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> 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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