[p2pu-dev] Issues when exploring P2PU

[Philipp Schmidt]

Are we tracking these kinds of suggestions somewhere (I think we should)?

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On 17 October 2011 16:03, John Britton <john at p2pu.org> wrote:

> Hey Nick,
>
> Thanks for sharing your thoughts, we're always listening and will use your
> feedback to prioritize development going forward.
>
> - 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 see how this could be frustrating, we will be putting time into the user
> experience around discovery of groups and courses soon. This will definitely
> be addressed at that time.
>
> - 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.
>
>
> Good point, noted.
>
>  - 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.
>
>
> This is interesting, I could see a possibility of highlighting the group
> members that are most important to you and de-emphasizing the others
>
> - 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?
>
>
> Right now there is not. I think we'll spend some time evaluating all the
> email communications that we send to users and address this then.
>
> Cheers,
> John Britton
> --
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>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Nicholas Doiron <ndoiron at mapmeld.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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