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

[zuzel.vp]

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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