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| | ==Moodle Network notes== |
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| ==A. Registration system for hubs==
| | ::After talking with MartinD about this in MoodleMootNZ'06, I am working on a "Moodle Network" model that supports the "Moodle Hub" as well as a more P2P layout. In fact, the choices of hub vs network model can be mixed and matched. Each node can configure a list of other nodes it knows about (and trusts!), and set what it offers to each of them. --[[User:Martin Langhoff|Martin Langhoff]] 13:11, 20 July 2006 (WST) |
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| We can extend the current site registration to let Admins publish more information into a central directory:
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| ===A1. New registration form===
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| The existing registration form can be extended so that admins can choose to send in more info about their sites, including:
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| # Lists of courses, each one with:
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| ## Availability (public/private)
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| ## Cost (and currency)
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| ## Audience: educators / students / admins (use legacy name of role?)
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| ## What else?
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| # Mnet registration details, enough to let someone else log in to this site
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| # Overall information about the whole site, such as a custom description etc
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| If any of these are set, then that Moodle will automatically inform moodle.org later when this information is updated, and possibly send a heartbeat ping every week or so (so that we can delete Moodle sites that miss two weeks).
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| ===A2. Moodle.org directory===
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| A new directory system on courses.moodle.org will allow you to browse/search the available courses/hubs around the world, via two methods:
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| # A web interface, with clickable links to the sites so that users can log in manually.
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| # A web services interface, designed to be used by other systems directly
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| Both interfaces will provide the same data.
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| ==B. Community link from every Moodle==
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| Every course will have a "Community" button that links to a script in Moodle that lists available community hubs (list downloaded from Moodle.org) with searching by site name, course name, subject name, teacher name (perhaps), tags etc.
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| # Adding button to course, with capability to view it (default on)
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| # Adding new Moodle script to browse/search hubs (using web services to call Moodle.org), and join sites or link to courses as necessary
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| # Moodlerooms hub to be the first one in the browse view, and have preferential treatment in searches (bold text etc?)
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| # Public Mnet sites allow immediate single-sign-on
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| ==C. Hub as repository==
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| Courses and other places in Moodle have a "Search for template..." button, which pulls up the normal file picker to look for template files. The community hubs that have been configured appear as just another repository, and show a kind of iTunes-like interface to browse/search for content and select one for download.
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| # Special new file types for Moodle files eg .mcoursebackup .mforumbackup which are all really .zips
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| # Special repository plugin in the client Moodle that displays a nice interface in an iframe, based on data retrieved via mnet services from the hub.
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| # Special module (activity module) in the server Moodle that manages uploaded files with ratings, comments, tagging, workflow etc.
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| # Course page to unpack returned file and "restore" it to the current course.
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| !! D. Hub as portfolio
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| Courses and other places have a "Save.." button which calls standard portfolio interface. Any configured mnet hosts will appear as a plugin there as well, so it will be possible to push the course as a zip to the external system (the special activity module in a course of your choosing)
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| | Here are my technical notes on how the internals would work... |
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| | * [[Community hub technotes]] - getting it done |
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| == See also == | | == See also == |
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| * [[Community hub technotes]] - relating to MNet developments in Moodle 1.8 | | * [[Community hub BEST]] - pictures and notes about the BEST Bulgarian project |
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