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

[Philipp Schmidt]

This is *exactly* the kind of thing I would like to avoid in future - and
the reason why I brought this up. P

On 6 October 2011 16:48, 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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