[Building Sakai] Modifying Clog tool for Assessment

[Yzelle, Sonette]

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Dear Adrian,

We are going to follow you suggestion to page through the posts.
Can we continue with the coding and then give you the patch so that you can see what we have done. If you are happy we will not have to fork.

We also want to add availability dates for reading and writing on the Clog tool (on site level).  We were thinking of adding this to the preferences page.  Do you have any suggestions. The lecturer wants the Clog page to be closed for writing and view during the exam phase.

Our users are still demanding that we only display the titles.  So I was thinking if we can maybe have a property in sakai.properties where we can set if the “Display only titles” should be checked or not checked. Default value must be unchecked as it is working now.

Regards
Sonette

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Fish
Sent: 11 September 2014 04:26 PM
To: Myburgh, Francette
Cc: sakai-dev (sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org)
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Modifying Clog tool for Assessment

Hi Francette,

I don't think it's a great idea to fork CLOG and start a new tool. The functionality you describe doesn't sound like it should require a radical change in UI, so I think the risk of fragmenting a developer community by forking isn't justified. Have you got any UI mockups you could show us?

It would also be good to see some real world figures demonstrating the amount of data being downloaded on a site's CLOG tool. You could use cURL on your biggest site and just save the json chunk. I think it would make more sense to actually page the entire posts, rather than just the titles. A long list of titles doesn't sound very useful compared to a series of full post pages.

Cheers,
Adrian.

On 10 September 2014 11:35, Myburgh, Francette <FMyburgh at unisa.ac.za<mailto:FMyburgh at unisa.ac.za>> wrote:
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Hello everyone

Just a heads up about some development work we are planning to do on the Clog tool. Your advice is welcomed.

For our fully online courses, academics have indicated that they want to use blogging for formal assessment purposes.
We have identified some gaps and issues with the current Clog tool that we need to address to support their assessment practices. Here are some of them:

1.       Timeout issues because of the large numbers of blogs that need to load on the first page of the tool
So we want to display only the titles on the first page. Users can then click on a title to open that specific title, with paging for the rest.

2.       Add the ability for closing the clog tool for editing (but not reading)

3.       Adding a marking interface and link the tool with the Gradebook

Our intended development work will result in a major change to the tool presentation.  Question:  is anyone else interested in using the Clog tool in this manner? Should we make these changes available as an adaptation of Clog or release a new tool altogether?

Regards
Francette Myburgh
UNISA



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