[Building Sakai] Modifying Clog tool for Assessment

[Adrian Fish]

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> wrote:

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>   Hello everyone
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> Just a heads up about some development work we are planning to do on the
> Clog tool. Your advice is welcomed.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 2.       Add the ability for closing the clog tool for editing (but not
> reading)
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> 3.       Adding a marking interface and link the tool with the Gradebook
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> 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?
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> Regards
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> Francette Myburgh
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> UNISA
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