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Become a tester on new.p2pu.org!
Hello new course organizers,
Last week I mentioned that we are building a new platform in the introductions thread and that I would provide updates this week. Well, the new is finally out and we'd like to invite you to become beta testers for the first version/prototype!
As organizers, you have two options:
- You are warmly welcome to stay here, http://p2pu.org, develop a syllabus, run your course as a facilitator, and receive support through the orientation, or
- You can become a beta tester on http://new.p2pu.org and run your course/study group experimentally with support from the help desk
Please read this blog post if you're curious: http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2011/03/29/a-new-website-for-p2pu/ and reply to this thread stating where you'd like to run your course.
For those that decide to stay with the current site, we'll start working through the http://wiki.p2pu.org/Course-Design-Handbook this week and next. For those of you that decide to test http://new.p2pu.org we'll work collaboratively to test out study groups and tasks.
I'm not sure which thread is "this thread" but I'll be running my course on the new platform. Huzzah!
This is the right place to say so. See you over there!
And to the other folks, please do let me know which site you'd like to use. That way I can provide the best support for you.
If we want to do the new site, should we make the study group there or here or maybe both?
assume I want to beta-test new ... where would I drop my issues?
(such as images getting distorted and description eating paragraph breaks ...)
You can also report issues at http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta/overview
It's ok to use both sites, if you wish, but make it clear which site you want your participants to use and socialize on.
If you're going to use new.p2pu.org, drop any issues you have to me: http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/alison/ and follow the dev team: http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/lernanta-dev/
There's a help desk, but I'm not sure how useful it will be until more communication features are added: http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/p2pu-help-desk/
I like the idea of organising a 'study group' instead of a 'course'. In any case I reckon it makes sense to use the new site as this is where we'll be running our courses / study groups, and because it gives us the change to give feedback while the new site is still being developed.
Can I set up a study group on the new site just to see how it all works, or would I be disappointing people signing up to the course?
You are free to experiment completely!
Great, exactly the answer I was hoping for :)
I am setting up my course on both platforms (yes, this is duplicate work) and will decide just before the start which platform to go with ... if the course would start tomorrow it would be the old one, but who knows what will happen until late April.
That's what I was thinking too and maybe updating the old place to point to here.
The best solution would be to find some way to tag courses that are for development, testing or in draft status. This would prevent people coming to the site for a real course and being turned off by garish content thrown up just for testing and getting familiar with the platform.
This is on the way (keep study groups in draft/under development status). I can point you to the ticket if you'd like.
Hey folks,
Hope designing is going well. Just a reminder that if you're working on new.p2pu.org and you're wondering about how the site is developing, keep your eye on our developers log: http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/lernanta-dev/
The most recent release of features is described here: http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/lernanta-dev/content/release-03/
I would like to test the new platform too. I've opened a course on the old one, but I do quite noting on it :-) because I had no time for it. i'll more engaged and available in May and June. Is it posible to migrate from this platform to the new one ?
Definitely.
Make sure to mark your p2pu.org draft/course with May/June running dates so interested folks know when to check back.
Alison: since the 'new' site is more geared towards learning groups rather than courses with a specific start/end date, I'm considering it for a public participation project.
Basically, I'm running a project for one of my clients. The client is happy to make the project 'open', i.e. accessible for anyone wanting to set up a similar project now or later.
Do you think that the 'new' platform would be suitable to run such a thing (or who should I ask)?