[p2pu-dev] private and public study groups "under development" (was Re: deleting study groups)

[Alison Jean Cole]

If a course/group is sandboxed, I would hope it's activity stream would also
stay hidden. I think this is actually quite important. Folks should be able
to experieent with some degree of reservation/privacy.

ALISON
new.p2pu.org/en/alison/ <http://p2pu.org/users/alison>





On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Jessy Kate Schingler
<jessy at jessykate.com>wrote:

> one thing about the sandbox setting is that any "activities" in my stream
> related to that sandbox still show up, so if people look at my profile they
> then see the course and, for example, i still have people signing up for the
> applied algorithms course.
>
> to me it brings up the question of having private drafts, because i'd like
> to be able to work on designing *tentative* courses, where i may just be
> exploring, without feeling like others will develop expectations around that
> course until i've decided its worth running and/or the audience, design etc.
> is settled.
>
> i suppose one argument is that this is a cultural thing-- if the course
> says "under development" then people should appreciate it as such and not
> develop expectations. on the other hand, does that lead us towards a world
> where we have a huge number of courses under development but little
> incentive to follow through? will this lead to a large graveyard of
> abandoned courses with a relatively small number actually running? maybe
> that's fine as long as we choose our UI carefully?
>
> Jessy
> --
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>
>
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Alison Jean Cole <
> alisonjean.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's a great idea. I'll use it in the future.
>>
>> Will sandbox these courses for now.
>>
>>
>> ALISON
>> new.p2pu.org/en/alison/ <http://p2pu.org/users/alison>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jessica Ledbetter <
>> jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If you sandbox them they shouldn't show up, at least, until Zuzel can
>>> clean up.
>>>
>>> We could also use alpha for testing/creating of screencasts. What do
>>> you think? The url would be different but functionality should be the
>>> same and can do the whole process.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Alison Jean Cole
>>> <alisonjean.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hey Dev folks,
>>> >
>>> > I created a flury of test courses (best course ever, fundamentals of
>>> > zoology) while making a how-to screencast: http://vimeo.com/24138754.
>>> >
>>> > They're junk and I would like to delete them. There's many, it's kind
>>> of
>>> > silly.
>>> >
>>> > ALISON
>>> > new.p2pu.org/en/alison/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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