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==What is a community hub== | ==What is a community hub?== | ||
A community hub is a directory of courses for public use or for private communities. | A community hub is a directory of courses for public use or for private communities. | ||
[[Image:Community-hubs-flowchart.png]] | [[Image:Community-hubs-flowchart.png]] | ||
The diagram above shows the basic idea. | The diagram above shows the basic idea. The systems in this diagram are: | ||
;Ordinary Moodle site: A typical Moodle site with teachers who want to download course templates and/or users who want to connect (enrol) with external communities | ;Ordinary Moodle site: A typical Moodle site with teachers who want to download course templates and/or users who want to connect (enrol) with external communities | ||
;Publishing site: A Moodle site that wants to make some of its courses available for download | ;Publishing site: A Moodle site that wants to make some of its courses available for download | ||
;Community site: A Moodle site that provides courses that are enrollable | ;Community site: A Moodle site that provides courses that are enrollable | ||
;Moodle Hub Server: A new Moodle plugin for listing registered courses that are | ;Moodle Hub Server: A new Moodle plugin for listing registered courses that are ''downloadable'' or ''enrollable''. The default hub will be installed at hub.moodle.org, but there can be many others. | ||
Downloadable courses | ==Downloadable courses== | ||
# Sites that want to publish certain courses and make them downloadable can register them with one or more hub servers. | |||
# The hub will check the data and make sure the course zip is downloadable, caching a copy locally. The hub may also have a security process to check the download for trojan horses, bad content, etc. | |||
# The download process may trigger the backup process on the original server if it hasn't been done already. | |||
# Later, Moodle users (who have permissions to do so) can connect to a hub to search for downloadable courses and choose one. | |||
# The Moodle site downloads the file and makes it available to the Moodle user so they can now continue to restore it normally. | |||
==Enrollable courses== | |||
# Sites that want to publish certain courses for the public to enrol in can register them with one or more hub (including the main one at moodle.org). | |||
# Later, any Moodle user can connect to a hub (via Community block in their site) to search and find courses they want to join. | |||
# They click on a link to be sent to the other site so that they can enrol there. | |||
==Administrator manuals== | ==Administrator manuals== | ||
* [ | * [[Community_hub_site_administration|Get your Moodle site "community hub ready"]] | ||
* [ | * [[Hub_administration|Hub server administration]] | ||
==Teacher manuals== | ==Teacher manuals== | ||
* [ | * [[Publish_a_course|How to publish a course]] | ||
* [ | * [[Import_a_community_course|How to install a community course]] | ||
* [ | * [[Join_a_community_course|How to join a community course]] | ||
==Student manuals== | ==Student manuals== | ||
* [ | * [[Join_a_community_course|How to join a community course]] | ||
==Developer references == | ==Developer references == | ||
* [ | * [[Development:Community hub]] | ||
* [ | * [[Development:Community hub - technical specification]] | ||
[[Category:Hub]] | [[Category:Hub]] | ||
Revision as of 15:18, 6 September 2010
What is a community hub?
A community hub is a directory of courses for public use or for private communities.
The diagram above shows the basic idea. The systems in this diagram are:
- Ordinary Moodle site
- A typical Moodle site with teachers who want to download course templates and/or users who want to connect (enrol) with external communities
- Publishing site
- A Moodle site that wants to make some of its courses available for download
- Community site
- A Moodle site that provides courses that are enrollable
- Moodle Hub Server
- A new Moodle plugin for listing registered courses that are downloadable or enrollable. The default hub will be installed at hub.moodle.org, but there can be many others.
Downloadable courses
- Sites that want to publish certain courses and make them downloadable can register them with one or more hub servers.
- The hub will check the data and make sure the course zip is downloadable, caching a copy locally. The hub may also have a security process to check the download for trojan horses, bad content, etc.
- The download process may trigger the backup process on the original server if it hasn't been done already.
- Later, Moodle users (who have permissions to do so) can connect to a hub to search for downloadable courses and choose one.
- The Moodle site downloads the file and makes it available to the Moodle user so they can now continue to restore it normally.
Enrollable courses
- Sites that want to publish certain courses for the public to enrol in can register them with one or more hub (including the main one at moodle.org).
- Later, any Moodle user can connect to a hub (via Community block in their site) to search and find courses they want to join.
- They click on a link to be sent to the other site so that they can enrol there.
