Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project » Hack/Doc Fest http://www.clamp-it.org Building tools and sharing solutions for liberal arts colleges Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:43:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Hack/Doc Fest: Winter 2012 Project Suggestions http://www.clamp-it.org/2011/12/hackdoc-fest-winter-2012-project-suggestions/ http://www.clamp-it.org/2011/12/hackdoc-fest-winter-2012-project-suggestions/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:25:31 +0000 Staff http://www.clamp-it.org/?p=1245 Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Tulane University is a month away and we’re looking for suggestions for bug fixes, documentation and new features for Moodle that the community would like us to address. You can add your requests by making a comment on this blog post. You don’t have to be attending Hack/Doc Fest to make suggestions — we’d like suggestions from the entire community.

  • Evaluation and testing of Moodle 2.2
    • Moodle 2.2 load tests
    • Moodle mobile app testing
    • Moodle mobile theme testing
    • Luminis Message Broker Discussion and Debugging
  • Evaluation and testing of Moodle 2.2 plugins
    • Quickmail
    • Scheduler
    • Filtered Course List
  • Planning Moodle 2.0 pilots
  • Documentation for Moodle 2.0
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  • Moodle 1.9 bug fixes
  • Learning how to use Git for version control
  • Demo site for Moodle LAE
  • Further evaluation and testing of Moodle 2.0
  • Planning Moodle 2.0 pilots
  • Identifying and writing needed documentation for Moodle 2.0
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Here’s our initial breakdown, based on Tuesday’s meeting. Please add your own suggestions and priorities as comments on this post.

  • Enrollments
    • gradebook and how enrollments work.
    • what happens when someone is unenrolled from a course, deleted from moodle, etc.
    • ways to get around auto-deleting student course information
  • Repository/Files
    • How does uploading of files work?
    • SMB mounts?
    • External repos?
    • User quotas?
  • Block and Module Evaluations
    • needed updates for database backend?
  • Restoring courses from 1.9, upgrading courses from 1.9
  • Thirdparty apps like plagerism tools
  • Moodle Luminis Message Broker Plugin
    • 2.0 beta in January

Our goal is to assess the state of Moodle 2.0 and determine what documentation is going to be needed, what code must be upgraded, and offer suggestions on when to make the move.

A list of major changes and additions to Moodle 2.0 can be found on the Moodle Documentation web site:

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Here’s our short list of projects for Hack/Doc Fest:

  • Evaluating what works — and doesn’t work — in Moodle 2.0, with a particular eye toward third party blocks, modules and themes as well as our own custom code.
  • Identifying what new documentation is needed for Moodle 2.0.
  • Fixing bugs in the Moodle Liberal Arts edition.
  • Working on unit testing scripts to help automate testing new Moodle releases.
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As with prior events, Hack/Doc will feature programmers and instructional technologists coming together to improve Moodle. Our short-list of Moodle work includes:

  • Evaluating what works — and doesn’t work — in Moodle 2.0, with a particular eye toward third party blocks, modules and themes as well as our own custom code.
  • Identifying what new documentation is needed for Moodle 2.0.
  • Fixing bugs in the Moodle Liberal Arts edition.
  • Working on unit testing scripts to help automate testing new moodle releases.

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest is a free event. Attendees will need to pay for their own transportation, lodging, and dinner. In addition to the conventional Hack/Doc Fest, we’re planning on coordinating a virtual component to Hack/Doc Fest that will allow people to participate from their own campuses on a limited basis.

The registration deadline is December 15, 2010.

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Development

  • Anonymous Forums: Done, tested, and in dev branch. It will be “baked in” to LAE v1.1, but will be turned off by default. A converter for the older version of Anonymous forums (which was available as a separate download) is included, but needs to be tested.
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/187
  • Wiki Forward Slash Characters bug: Fixed, tested and in the dev branch.
    • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22933
  • Forum Q&A: Fix created, included in dev branch.
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/221
    • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-9376
  • LAE Gradebook View: The hackers dealt with various issues regarding CSS/JavaScript and Internet Explorer.
  • Questionnaire: Fix implemented and reported to our tracker and Moodle tracker.
    • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-2162
  • Gradebook tweaks: Two patches were rolled for the gradebook — one that hides the role-renaming option in course settings and one to re-name and hide grade items on the grade category page.
    • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22928
    • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22931
  • Moodle 1.9.9. Import Bug: We discovered an import bug in 1.9.9 that was subsequently fixed in the weekly build. It has been rolled into the Dev branch.
  • Tiny MCE3: It is working and has been rolled into the development branch. We also need to create a list of default button and evaluate TeX editors as a possible replacement for the somewhat buggy DragMath used in Moodle 1.9.5+LAEv1.0. We need to see how it upgrades from TinyMCE2 to TinyTMC3
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/192
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/217
  • Simple File Upload: There was a bug single file upload fix. It needs to be rolled in.

Documentation

The Doc’ers finished evaluating Moodle 1.9.9+LAE and didn’t find any additonal bugs. They also also made 38 scripts for creating how-to videos, which will be shared out using Google Docs.
They also helped with testing the various hacker fixes and features additions and cleaned up the Documentation issues in the Redmine Tracker.
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Developers

The developers created a methodology to document CLAMP code changes and have begun integrating them into our code. We reviewed all of the “resolved” tickets in Redmine, and closed them (causing the total ticket count to drop).

The Census module now allows for start and end dates for its reports and the latest iteration to Anonymous Forums is ready for testing. We’re also evaluating hacks to improve the “My Moodle” feature in Moodle.

Luther College’s Grader report was reviewed. We decided to offer the report as part of 1.9.9.+LAE.x, but we’ll be splitting out the logic that changes the way grades are calculated. The new report allows you to scroll left and right within the grader report, offers better color coding, and increases the usability of the default gradebook view. We are currently debugging display problems in Internet Explorer.

We also folded TinyMCE 3 into Moodle 1.9.9. and have begun testing it. We also resolved issues we were having with SSHing to our development server at Reed College.

We also created a survey asking institutions about what eReserves system they use and what, if any, integration they have done between that system and Moodle.

Doc’ers

The Doc’ers spend their time running through the Moodle evaluation script to determine if there were any problems with Moodle 1.9.9. Here is their preliminary report:

Bugs

  • Adding a forward slash in the wiki title causes a page to be created with the name of whatever is after the forward slash (e.g., “Tastes great/less filling” would have a page titled, “less filling” on the wiki main page.
  • Wikis in Teacher mode set to separate groups will get an error if “Choose” is selected instead of one of the groups
  • Wikis set to use groups throws students not in groups back to the Moodle top site
  • Ratings in glossary: if “Use ratings” is checked with no grades assigned then a blank Rate drop box will appear. When the Glossary is updated the “Use rating” box is unchecked. This behavior should at least happen as a safe guard upon saving.
  • Secure quiz mode: quiz opens in another window, but it isn’t secure and you can still access other windows – in Safari 4.0.5, Mac OS 10.  IE on PC does same thing, and you can allow pasting from a clipboad into the answer fields
  • DOC-ERS TO CONFIRM: cannot include attachments to a latest news item or calendar item
  • Q & A forum posts are still available for editing up to 30 mins, which goes against the idea of disallowing students access to others’ responses until after submitting their own.
  • Rating of database entries doesn’t look to be working
Feature Requests
  • Quiz: teachers cannot add images as answers because they don’t get the editor
  • RSS block titled Remote News Feed would make more sense as RSS News Feed
  • Advanced upload of files: must complete comment field to upload response document; faculty may have embedded comments in the document instead.
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DEVELOPERS
  • Create Methodology for documenting CLAMP Code Changes (Rosalyn Metz*)
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/207
  • Evaluate MyMoodle Hacks (Bob Puffer*, Ben Johnson)
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/195
  • Other Dev Tasks (not in Redmine tracker)
    • Create 1.9.9+LAEv1.0 test instance. (done)
    • Create 1.9.9/Anonymous Forums test instance (done)
    • Create 1.9.9/TinyMCE 3 test instance (done)
DOC’ERS
  • Test Moodle 1.9.9+LAE1.0
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/203
    • Jason Alley*, Don Belkins, Keeta Martin, Jason Bennett
  • Evaluate Luther Gradebook Enhancements
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/193
    • Bob Puffer*, Michael Gough, Ken Newquist, Caroline Moore, Molly McManus
  • Test TinyMCE3 Integration
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/192
    • Cort Haldaman*
  • Test and Document Anonymous Forums
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/175
    • Charles Fulton* (cfulton@kzoo.edu)
OTHER TASKS
  • Evaluate eReserves Integration (Linda McCord)
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/197
    • Research the various eReserve options that integrate with Moodle and to report back to the group. DePauw uses ARES and has integration working.
    • If you are using an eReserves system, please make a comment below telling us what it is, and whether it’s hooked into Moodle.
DROPPED TASKS
  • Google Apps for Education Integration
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/196
    • Google Apps for Integration doesn’t work; we’re not proceeding with this right now.
  • Re-evaluate and test NanoGong integration
    • http://redmine.clamp-it.org/issues/show/200
    • Nanogong doesn’t work. We may revisit this if time permits.
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Here are some potential items for Hack/Doc:

  • Moodle 1.9.9: Liberal Arts Edition: We will be doing the 1.9.8 code merge before Hack/Doc Fest, so work on this edition will focus on debugging/testing so that we can release it ASAP after the event.
  • Moodle 2.0 Beta Evaluation: There weren’t many tires to kick on Moodle 2.0 in January; we’ll be revisiting the new version (currently Moodle 2.0 Preview 1)
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