Student projects/AJAX course format

Current Progress

I am currently working on research and planning.

Research and planning

Drag and Drop

Currently looking into the scriptaculous drag-and-drop scheme that is used on the chameleon moodle site.

I have been doing some research as to how scriptaculous impliments their drag and drop and if it would be better to try to integrate this portion of scriptaculous into moodle or to start from scratch.

Specifications

Other Links to spec discussions

Forum Discussion about an AJAX course layout system.

• [1]http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=33778#186312

Current implimentation into chameleon Theme site. Would need to be further integrated and extended.

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

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