User:Tarun2000/Progress Report

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Educational Blogger Project - Weekly Update

Week of June 23

  • Researched how file upload is handled in Moodle
  • Implemented Image Upload with tinyMCE in mockup
  • Halfway done with integrating tinyMCE with Moodle
  • Implemented customization of student page in mockups for user input
  • Revised Timeline due to delay in XS availability (pushed non-dependent tasks first)

Week of June 16

  • Revised timeline to take some Moodle difficulties into account (tinyMCE integration not officially supported until 2.0)
  • Outlined changes to OU Blog Tables, first step in phase 2
  • Discussed more details of Moodle implementation with Greg to rework admin and teacher mockups
  • Completed Sugar Theme for tinyMCE (IE, FF, Browse compatible! + Easier Moodle integration!) - First Milestone
  • Bug fixes to Image Upload
  • Image upload to blogger mostly finished and being tested by users!

Week of June 9

  • Test server almost ready! Gave suggestions of additional software to Tony
  • Started getting a lot of user feedback (on uruguay-xo-coordination list) and tweaked mockups
  • Figured out how to upload images to Blogger (very little doc!)
  • Reconfigured Moodle with tinyMCE (will be replaced officially in 2.0) and started work on the UI
  • Implemented basic post to Blogger functionality so users can comment on the whole workflow (screenshot)!
  • Git repository set up by Marcel! Organized and uploaded what we had so far
  • Work plan nearly finalized and exact Moodle modifications identified
  • Overall project plan approved by Greg and Martin
  • Finished mock ups of teacher and student pages for end user comments

Week of June 2

  • Initiated process to obtain development XO
  • Started discussion with Martin about the EduBlog project
  • Continued prototyping student editor page (added image upload)
  • Evaluated using Moodle with OU Blog as per Martin's advice (feasible, but requires more discussion)
  • Researched methods for remotely posting to Blogger.com (first target system for remote posting)
  • Revised project plan based on modifications and information from list

Week of May 28

  • Discussed project timeline and milestones with Greg
  • Applied for project hosting with Marcel
  • Set up a hosting account with LAMP to develop until Fedora with XS made available
  • Began developing prototype of student editor page (http://olpc.betarun.com/ui/student_editor.php)