Student projects/AJAX course format

I am currently working on research and planning.

For reference this is the project suggestion from the moodle SOC page:

AJAX course format Background

The current course formats are designed to work on lower browsers and older technologies. They are highly compatible with browsers but can really slow down the course creation process. Overview

Design a clean, extensible method for implementing a course format using AJAX. This may require development of a web service to service the Javascript front end. Details

  1. It should be optional and accessible, so that it can drop back to the current interface on browsers that are incapable of dealing with dynamic pages.
  2. Blocks can be dragged and dropped.
  3. Sections can be dragged and dropped, made hidden or visible.
  4. Activities and resources can be dragged and dropped, made hidden or visible, have the group status changed, etc. 

Mentors: Martin Dougiamas and Urs Hunkler

Programmer: Edward Coyne

Current Progress:

I have been looking at the AJAX drag and drop that has already been implimented in the chameleon moodle theme that Urs had a hand in the development of.

[[1]]http://chameleon-theme.unodo.de/course/view.php?id=5

I have been doing some research as to how scriptaculous impliments their drag and drop.