[p2pu-dev] Issues when exploring P2PU

[Nicholas Doiron]

Hi,

I organized two courses on P2PU and took part in the Knight-Mozilla News
Learning Lab.  I'd like to continue working with P2PU because of the role it
plays in new enthusiasm for the open web (
http://commonspace.wordpress.com/mozilla-learning-proposa/ )  Just exploring
the site recently, seeing if I should join or start a course, I ran into a
few roadblocks.

- I found out about a "Build your own Facebook" course and was surprised to
see nearly 300 subscribers. If I join, are there are a good number of active
users?  If I don't join, which School has similar courses that I could join
instead?  It's difficult to see this from the course page.
http://p2pu.org/en/groups/create-your-own-facebook/

- I clicked on "Intro" and read the organizer's write-up, but there is no
timestamp.  This makes it difficult for me to figure out when the course
began.

- I clicked on Sign-up, read directions, and then see many others' sign-up
answers.  The placement of the "Post answer" button is unexpectedly above
what I just read.  I see some people who I wouldn't want to work with, but a
few who describe a similar skill level in MySQL and PHP. Can I join some
kind of study group with these people? Maybe writing a reply is the best
mechanism for this? Teaming up might seem unnecessary, but when I ran my
videos course several people suggested that I could use P2PU to create
separate video and programming groups.

- Side note: I find the auto-answer to every one of my course's sign-ups
('Welcome Aboard  You're a participant now') good-natured, but impersonal.
Is there a way I can type special responses?

Regards,
Nick Doiron
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