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Re: OU blog - optional blog module

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:43:22 GMT

by Glenn Pillsbury.

Hmm. I have R2.2 installed but there are no grade options showing up. I'm using Moodle 2.1 but the OU Blog didn't complain about being incompatible.

See below for a screen shot of what the blog set up looks like. Where should the grading options be?

Thanks.

Re: OU blog - optional blog module

Wed, 16 May 2012 17:18:15 GMT

by sam marshall.

It already is The planned development was actually done and is there now (in the master or MOODLE_22_STABLE versions).

--sam

Re: OU blog - optional blog module

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:24:35 GMT

by Glenn Pillsbury.

Consider this a vote for making the OU Blog a graded activity. That would enhance the usefulness of the tool considerably!

Re: OU blog - optional blog module

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:57:21 GMT

by David Perry.

Some staff have looked at using it for 'in-course' blogs as Sam notes. We wrote a couple of helpsheets (one for staff setting them up, one for students submitting them).

FYI we also have a member of staff using it for a cross-site area we've setup in part of the AS/A2 teaching category to keep an eye on any problems students that are taught at multiple sites/institutions are having, in place of email chains between these staff about them. The Concerns pages are staff-only with only specific staff given access to them.

Re: OU blog - optional blog module

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:34:28 GMT

by sam marshall.

Sorry but there are no migration tools.

I think a lot of people use OU blog only for 'in-course blogs' which is straightforward (same as other modules). If you want to use it for the site-level 'user blogs' as well, you can, but there is no automatic link to it (e.g. on user profiles) - you have to add a link in your system somewhere, whether that be by the theme or just adding a URL link to your site main page or whatever. (The link is mod/oublog/view.php - if you just go there without parameters it will jump to the current user's blog.)

Also check the capabilities on the authorised user role to make sure they are allowed to do the personal blog things.

Note:

As of yesterday, we have a MOODLE_22_STABLE branch for oublog (and most of our other published modules) which corresponds to the version on OU live servers. You can use this if you only want the tested code. Unless we patch it, there won't be any updates except on our release cycle (currently monthly).

There are a number of known bugs in oublog which one of the developers on my team is currently working through. I should also warn that as of yet we haven't actually started using the 'personal blogs' feature in Moodle 2 because our 1.9 servers are still running and we want to switch it over 'in one go', not sure when that will happen. Anyway, please make sure you try it out on a test server and are sure it's working for your purposes before you start using it.

--sam

Re: OU blog - optional blog module

Tue, 15 May 2012 19:46:59 GMT

by Gilles-Philippe Leblanc.

We plan to install OU Blog and replace the traditional with this new blog. Is there a procedure to get there and there are migration tools for our users who used the traditional blogging tool ?

Re: OU Blogs aren't gradeable?

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:15:39 GMT

by sam marshall.

Hi Glenn,

OU blog does not support the 'rating' system. The rating system wasn't suitable for the way we grade work here anyway.

Instead it supports another kind of grading screen which we call 'participation'. This is only available in recent versions though (I don't think it's in our 2.1 stable version, sorry - it should be in the 2.2 stable version if there is one, which I don't think there is because I haven't really figured out a good way to automatically set up those stable versions without doing manual work).

Basically, you click 'View participation' or something and it shows you a list of all the students and how many posts/comments they made. You can click on their name to view all posts/comments from that student on one page. From either of these two pages you can set their grade. (Students can also use that page to see a list of their own contributions, although obviously they probably can't set the grade.)

--sam

OU Blogs aren't gradeable?

Tue, 08 May 2012 22:04:05 GMT

by Glenn Pillsbury.

Using Moodle 2.1.2 and it appears that OU Blog entries can't be graded and thus don't show up automatically in the gradebook. When I add the activity there isn't any section for "Ratings". Is that really true?

Svar: Re: Blog posts, visible at course level only

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:23:02 GMT

by Peter Liljedahl.

Spontaneously good suggestion with these 5 levels and that the student can choose which when posting.

Re: Guest access to blog

Fri, 04 May 2012 15:40:19 GMT

by conan barber.

I have the same issue. When I look at the permissions it is set to Anyone in the World. I think "Anyone in the world" should include anyone and not just authenticated users and guest. Maybe an Anonymous user like in IIS?

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