[Building Sakai] Groups and Lessons - Re: request for help QAing Lessons for 2.9.3

[Neal Caidin]

Hi Daniel,

Could you refresh my memory? Do you have steps to reproduce the problem?
Have you opened a Jira or were you checking first to see if others have
this concern too?

Cheers,
Neal



On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Daniel Merino <daniel.merino at unavarra.es>wrote:

> Hi everybody.
>
> I sent an email yesterday but nobody answered so I sent it again to this
> topic.
>
> We are very concerned about Lessons creating groups to manage several
> contents with prerequisites. These groups, which start with "Access:"
> string, are visible in every group-aware tool (Resources, Assignments,
> MessageCenter, Forums, Roster...) and we think that they can be very
> confusing for our users.
>
> Is there any way to disable the creation of these groups? We would like
> to avoid them even if we have to sacrifice some Lessons features.
>
> Best regards.
>
> El 23/06/2013 18:14, Hedrick Charles escribió:
> > 2.9.3 is coming up very quickly. I'd appreciate any help in QA'ing the
> copy of Lessons that will come with it. A couple of changes have turned out
> to involve a lot more code that I had expected.
> >
> > * In 2.9.1 Gradebook made a change so that any tool that uses Gradebook
> must implement a new API. Lessons did not. As a result, grades reported by
> Lessons were not shown to students, and probably were not included in final
> grade calculations. The same would be true of any contrib tools that had
> not been updated to implement the new API. I've fixed that. The code needs
> testing. Specifically it needs testing for graded comments, student
> content, and comments on student content, and it needs testing specifically
> when those items are limited to be accessible to specific groups (to the
> extent that that restriction is possible -- not all of them are
> group-aware).
> >
> > * I had a report that MP4 video was not showing on the iPhone. That
> resulted in LSNBLDR-216. Initially I thought upgrading the player would fix
> it. However the problem turned out to be in the implementation of
> /access/lessonbuilder. In the process I fixed several issues: HTML5 is now
> used to display MP4, webm and ogg, if the browser supports HTML5 and it
> claims to support the MIME type for the video. Otherwise I next try the
> Strobe Flash-based player. Finally I use <OBJECT> or <EMBED>, which leaves
> it to the browser to find a player.  JWPlayer is no longer supported, for
> licensing reasons. (And the initially reason for using it no longer applies
> anyway.) I also fixed an issue that caused Quicktime embedding not to work
> (for browsers that have a Quicktime player, of course). Testing should
> include MP4, FLV, Quicktime, and if possible webm, ogg, and random types
> not explicitly supported. Please try as many different browsers as
> possible, including portable devices.
> >
> > * I have simplified the build process. You now adjudge the <parent>
> declaration in the main pom.xml, and choose a profile for 2.8, 2.9, or
> 2.10. If you want support for contrib tools you enable the optional profile
> in tool/pom.xml. The build has been tested on 2.8. (Trunk has also been
> tested on 2.8.)
> >
> > Note that there are database updates for moving to 2.9.2 and 2.9.3, both
> defined in files simplepage.for-2.9.[23].sql. There's also a script if
> you're moving from a pre-2.9 version of Lessons.
> >
> > For multimedia tests, you may want to use sakai-29.rutgers.edu. It is
> running he current 1.4.x, and is a two-node cluster. Some of the code
> should be tested on a cluster.
> >
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