[Building Sakai] Lessons Builder import

Hedrick Charles hedrick at rutgers.edu
Sat Nov 23 15:30:23 PST 2013


I recommend that you leave CC import. That’s a way to import publisher content. As far as I know, Canvas hasn’t implemented any proprietary import for quiz questions or other content, so some publishers are now supporting CC format for Canvas. It should work for us as well.


On Nov 22, 2013, at 9:18:52 PM, Qu, Yuanhua <yq12 at txstate.edu> wrote:

> I applied the patch in LSNBLDR-315.  It does fix the embedded youtube  to be exported and imported.   Thanks a lot.
> 
> Thanks for your explanation and we now understood CC limitation at this time and its initial purpose,  we will use "Import from site"  to import lessons from other sites within sakai.  But to avoid confusion to our users, we decided to hide the "Import CC" and "Export CC" at this time. 
> 
> I'm sure extending  the CC code to support all of the Sakai functionality will be a big plus, sounds lots of work though.  Appreciate if you could just put this in your consideration,  and hopefully there will be time in the future to get it possible. 
> 
> Our supports and instructional designers like this tool a lot and we will make this tool available for our users together with our 2.9.3 upgrade in Jan. 2014.  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Qu
> 
> 
> From: Charles Hedrick <hedrick at rutgers.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 3:01 PM
> To: "Qu, Yuanhua" <yq12 at txstate.edu>
> Cc: "sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org" <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Lessons Builder import
> 
> I’m now showing the URL as the name, except in a few cases where I can’t tell the name. Then it shows “embedded video.” There was also a bug such that links such as Youtube URLs exported as a file with the text of the link, rather than actual links. That’s fixed. These fixes have been retrofitted to 1.4, and are present in the 1.4.x source (though not well tested). This is jira LSNBLDR-315.
> 
> But that won’t solve the problem of having embedded videos such as Youtube turn into links.There’s a basic problem here. The CC format does not define a way to put content inline on a page. The basic CC model is a file system, much like resources. What  we think of as a Lessons page is simply a folder listing in the CC model. 
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> The priority in developing CC export and import has been to support the standard as well as possible. I’ve tested with several other CMSs, to make sure we can exchange content. It wasn’t a goal, at least initially, to transfer content between two Sakai systems. For that we have a Sakai archive format.
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> If this is something a lot of people want to do, I’m willing to consider it. But extending the CC code to support all of the Sakai functionality is at least as large a job as implementing CC in the first place. So it’s not likely to come quickly. Particularly since the IMS folks have released a new version of CC, which will require changes to both export and import. Doing that would be my next priority for CC.
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> On Nov 13, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Qu, Yuanhua <yq12 at txstate.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I also tested trunk version of lessons against sakai trunk, same issue for import.
>> 
>> -Qu
>> 
>> From: <Qu>, Yuanhua <yq12 at txstate.edu>
>> Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:15 PM
>> To: "sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org" <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
>> Subject: [Building Sakai] Lessons Builder import
>> 
>> We are testing Lessons Builder 1.4.3 for our local sakai upgrade from 2.8 to 2.9.3.  For import feature, we found that in the imported lessons page, the original text all becomes link called "Instructions".  If there was youtube video, it will be displayed  in the imported lesson page as an item titled with that youtube url. 
>> 
>> I have created a Jira since I didn't find same issue reported.  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/LSNBLDR-313
>> 
>> Have anyone seen this too? Wondering if there is any fix could share?  
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> -Qu
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