[Building Sakai] release 1 SP1 of Lesson Builder

Mon Dec 20 09:16:07 PST 2010

Polls is next on my list as well as far as new tools. But there's a whole list of priorities, which you'll see on the Confluence site. If you look at the items that have been done, I think you'll see that I am making progress. Adding a new tool is something someone else could reasonably do. There's an interface for a class that has all the tool-specific code. But currently there's some work (quite straightforward) to 3 common files to integrate it. I'd be happy to have others work on it.

There will be special portal support for Lesson Builder in 2.9. I don't decide whether it's part of the core.

On Dec 20, 2010, at 12:05:44 PM, Adam Marshall wrote:

> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> adam
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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