User:Tarun2000/Progress Report
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Educational Blogger Project - Weekly Update
Week of July 14
- Sugar+Primary theme almost IE compatible, pretty much fully XO compatible
- Moodle had some install issues that need to be fixed
- Tony got the server up and running with everything needed!
Week of July 7
- Thinking about auth module
- All functional elements complete except one script that needs to have Blogger.com specific calls removed
- Loaded LAMPP On XO with Moodle EduBlog - server to have Moodle later this week!
- Theme modifications for working on XO - all EduBlog Moodle pages render correctly
- External Blog Management system complete for Blogger.com (including image support)
- Teacher Review incorporated into OU Blog
Week of June 30
- Modified create blog page to link to external blog
- Created a pre alpha management and add blog page
- Created Remote Blog API and Blogger.com Plug in
- Added preview plug-in to tinyMCE Sugar theme
- Finished with a basic integration of tinyMCE w/ Sugar theme in Moodle
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)
