[p2pu-dev] users are starting to create "challenges"

Thu Oct 6 16:05:44 UTC 2011

I think users just get confused, because there is no "other" radio button.

If there was an "Other" option that you click and then get access to the
text fields - it might solve it.

P

On 6 October 2011 17:59, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am getting confused. -- Screen shots to check everyone is seeing the
> same fields in the creation form:
> http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6229/6217220435_cc830ae73a_b.jpg
>
> --
> Thanks,
>    Zuzel
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Jessica Ledbetter
> <jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:
> > But we used to be able to select "Other" and then could write-in things
> like
> > "Seminar" or "Workshop" or something that was more fitting for what we
> were
> > doing. I don't think we have any of those right now but that was
> something
> > I, as a user, was thinking of making.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:40 AM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Ali,
> >>
> >> I thought I already clarified this before. Will try to describe the
> >> change again. Let me know if I am missing something.
> >>
> >> The other option was not removed to make place for challenges. The
> >> other option was replaced by a different implementation to not
> >> restrict users to only be able to use the study groups functionality
> >> when creating other learning project.
> >>
> >> Before users select an other radio button and filled out a new term
> >> and short description, and we then made the othe group work like a
> >> study group and replaced its name (i.e. Study Group) by the provided
> >> term.
> >>
> >> Now they can choose study group, course or challenge and provide a new
> >> term short description, and we then make the group work like whatever
> >> they selected and replace the name (i.e. Study Group, Course,
> >> Challenge) by the provided term.
> >>
> >> Users with a DIY U learning plan should not be affected since
> >> selecting study group and providing a new term works exactly as the
> >> previous functionality they were using.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thanks,
> >>    Zuzel
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org> wrote:
> >> > We were using the "other" option for users in DIY U to create personal
> >> > learning plans. This option was over-rided to make way for challenges.
> >> > Now
> >> > users in DIY U have no way to hack the P2PU site to create a personal
> >> > learning plan. This is a problem for us.
> >> >
> >> > ALISON
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:02 AM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Right now there is nothing webcraft specific hardcoded in the
> >> >> implementation. Hidding the creation will complicate things a bit
> more
> >> >> at the implementation level. It will also not allow people to test
> the
> >> >> new kind of group (without using the actual webmaking 101 challenges
> >> >> as sandbox for testing). If we are moving towards it (i.e. some of
> the
> >> >> features could become a main part of p2pu), I think it is important
> to
> >> >> have challenges as an option. We even made use of this capability in
> >> >> the first community call by sugesting one of the participants  to
> test
> >> >> out this kind of group for Bio 101. If challenges were not open at
> >> >> that time I will had to manually give that user special access or we
> >> >> will not be able to test them at all. Changing between kinds of
> groups
> >> >> is easy so they can change back  the group to study group or course
> >> >> any time. I will vote to include something like (new) in the desc of
> >> >> the kind of group and start their longer description at
> help.p2pu.org.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thoughts?
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >>    Zuzel
> >> >>
> >> >> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > I've noticed that there is at least one new challenge that was
> >> >> > created
> >> >> > by a
> >> >> > user:
> >> >> > http://p2pu.org/en/groups/how-to-make-screencasts/
> >> >> > Since we are really driving development of the challenge UX to
> >> >> > support
> >> >> > webcraft, it might not really work for public challenges (yet). Of
> >> >> > course
> >> >> > that's where we want to get to in the future.
> >> >> > Maybe for now, we should let users know that they are working with
> an
> >> >> > experimental "study group type" or even hide the option to create
> >> >> > them
> >> >> > challegnes from non-admin users.
> >> >> > Thoughts?
> >> >> > P
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> >> >
> >> > Alison
> >> >
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