開発:コミュニティハブ

再作成中です - Mitsuhiro Yoshida 2008年12月25日 (木) 11:10 (CST)

Moodleコミュニティーハブは、教師によるコース作成および利用に関してさらなる相互関係を結び、コースおよびユーザデータをリポジトリに保存するようにする将来的な計画です。

手短に言えば、私たちは学習コミュニティ (communities of practice 実践共同体) に参加するため、Moodler (Moodleユーザ) が他のサイトを簡単に検索および接続できるようにしたいと考えています。すべてのユーザにオープンな中央ディレクトリを通じて、私たちはこのことを実現します。

A. Moodle.orgディレクトリ

新しいディレクトリシステム (directory.moodle.org?) では、以下の2つの方法を使用して、世界中のコース/ハブを閲覧/検索することができます:

ユーザが手動でログインできるよう、サイトへのクリック可能なリンクを提供するウェブインターフェース
他のシステム (例 Moodle sites) から直接利用できるRESTベースのウェブサービスインターフェース

両インターフェースとも同じデータを提供します。

B. Moodleの新しい登録フォーム

The existing registration form can be extended so that admins can choose to send in more info about their sites to the directory, including:

Lists of courses, each one with:
1. Name
2. Description
3. Tags / keywords (perhaps from a standard set)
4. Country/region
5. Availability (public/private)
6. Cost (and currency)
7. Audience: educators / students / admins (use legacy name of role?)
8. Educational level being discussed (for educators audience only)
9. Language
10. What else?
Mnet registration details, enough to let someone else log in to this site
Overall information about the whole site, such as a custom description etc

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).

C. すべてのMoodleからのコミュニティリンク

Every course will have a "Community" button (for teachers mostly) that links to a script in Moodle that uses the web services interface to search/browse available courses. The idea behind doing it this way is so that the script can do whatever that current version of Moodle can handle, rather than having the server generate pages that might not work.

Requires:

Add a new button to courses, with a new capability to view it (default on for teachers, not students)
Add a new Moodle script to browse/search hubs (using web services to call Moodle.org), and join sites if Mnet is all available, otherwise just link to courses for manual authentication/enrolment
Public Mnet sites in "Hub mode" should allow immediate single-sign-on (even if admins aren't involved?)

D. リポジトリとしてのハブ

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 Mnet-based 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.

Special new file types for Moodle files eg .mbkup.zip .mforumbkup.zip
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.
Special module (activity module?) in the server Moodle that manages uploaded files with ratings, comments, tagging, workflow etc.
Course page to unpack returned file and "restore" it to the current course.

E. ポートフォリオとしてのハブ

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)

Documentation