[p2pu-dev] Issues when exploring P2PU

Wed Oct 19 17:29:30 UTC 2011

Nick - thanks for this feedback - it's extremely useful. Some comment below.

(Side note: I think we have a good (not perfect) system at the moment. Bugs
and feature requests get put into lighthouse by at least three people who
know they have ownership of the process (John, Alison, Zuzel) as comments
come in via messages and to the list. )

- 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 noticed the organizer hasn't added any dates to the course. I'll get in
touch.

- 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 an interesting question. Technically you could clone the group and
change the requirements to sign up so that your participants would have a
similar skill level in MySQL and PHP - however I wonder how this would
socially be construed? Perhaps work with the organizer to fork it into two
separate groups? That way there would be some sort of communication between
you and the original organizer.

- 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?

Ticket: http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta/tickets/566

ALISON

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Jessica Ledbetter <
jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:

> Zuzel used to put them in lighthouse too.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>> Are we tracking these kinds of suggestions somewhere (I think we should)?
>>
>> P
>>
>>
>> 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
>>> --
>>> contact info:
>>> http://www.johndbritton.com
>>> @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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