Student projects/Blog improvements
Note: This page outlines ideas for the Blog Improvement / Blog Assignment Type project. It's a specification under construction! If you have any comments or suggestions, please add them to the page comments.
Summary
This project aims to make improvements to the existing blog component and add a blog assignment module. Blogs can help immensely in keeping a student's work and an instructor's supervision coordinated, especially in self and group-directed projects or long-term assignments. The blog assignment module will make it easier for instructors to take advantage of the existing blog component.
The improvements to the blog will be a new system of relating course entities to blog posts. Assignments, group projects, and courses can all be associated with blog posts, providing a method of filtering a blog at each level and thus avoiding the need to search through a blog for relevant posts from a student enrolled in multiple classes. These relations also provide a means of access control for group projects and the notion of a group blog. A group project may pertain to several students, and blog posts from each student related to the project can be filtered out of each of their blogs and combined on a single view. Specific blogging assignments can also be associated with blog posts so the instructor is aware of which posts the student wishes to have considered for evaluation.
Mentor: Mathieu Petit-Clair
Student: Joey Morwick
