Had a good chat last week with Ed, Kim and others, and one of the items that came up was "what is this moodle thing and why is it important?".
To state it briefly, Moodle is a fantastic learning mgmt system / course mgmt system and it's been for a while very much what OLPC people thought the XS software should look like to end users. In short, if the XS is going to provide tools for learning, Moodle has proven itself quite clearly to be the tool for the job. Couple of important pages about it http://docs.moodle.org/en/Background http://docs.moodle.org/en/Philosophy http://docs.moodle.org/en/Pedagogy Now, this is the LMS/CMS stuff, but we _also_ need a UI to perform some core operations. Moodle has good admin facilities and a good roles/capabilities/permissions model. So it is the place for - a personal page where I can see the files in my journal backup (to restore them, perhaps). - additional options if I'm a teacher to tune/tweak how something works. - a way to publish warnings and status this means we don't have to mess with duplicate user management or anything. It saves us a ton of work. This isn't news actually, but it seemed relevant to elaborate on this. Enough verbosity, back to finishing xs-0.5 :-) BTW, anyone keen on helping with this? http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=107555 cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
