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

[Philipp Schmidt]

Don't get me wrong - I'd love to roll out the challenges feature to more
people. As long as users know they are dealing with something that is
"experimental" (and might not work as intended) it's fine to leave it in.

+1 for adding a (experimental) to the group type selection

+1 for adding a description in help.p2pu.org

P

On 6 October 2011 16:02, 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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