Re: Possible structure of an IMS compliant intranet application

> Here is an outline of my plans for my intranet application.

Hi Everyone,

I am very interested in what Jodok and Co, and you, Richard, are doing.
There is a group of us trying to make school intranet templates for Armenian
schools.  We are relatively new to Plone (we did do an Armenian l10n for it,
and some products, so we now know our way around it); looking into
Archetypes right now (as you all are talking about them!), to see if they'll
facilitate what we want to accomplish.

The upside, in our case (i.e., in Armenia), is that there aren't competing
systems (intranets, portals for school), to my knowledge, and just having an
Armenian-language resource is a great thing.  Go Open Source! :)  I have
contacted (in Armenia) the Ministry of Education, and Project Harmony, an
NGO that has 200+ schools equipped with computers and connected to the Net.
Their responses to having school intranets developed were quite
enthusiastic.  A good thing.

Question: does anyone have a test site up anywhere?  Anyone interested in
joining efforts?  I am half-heartedly looking at how much work it is to make
a good intranet, and at the amount of duplicated effort it would be if each
of us (in all the different countries/areas) were to do our own from-scratch
version of Timetable, say.  Should we assemble into a group and divide
tasks? (or is there a group I and my team members can join/cooperate with?)

Thank you for letting me know,
Anoush

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Boyd <[email protected]>
To: <plone-educational-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: [Plone-educational] Possible structure of an IMS compliant intranet
application


> Hi Jodok (and anyone else interested),
>
> Here is an outline of my plans for my intranet application.
>
> I would welcome any feedback or ideas.
>
> I have so far created the UML diagrams that plan all the types that I
> would need. I am planning on a modular implementation so that some of
> the more advanced modules can be developed and plugged in later. Also,
> schools would only need to implement the modules that they wanted. I
> just wanted to make sure that I had a place to plug everything.
>
> I have broken the intranet into several modules: Administration,
> Learning, Resource Library, UnitsOfLearning Library,
> Curriculum/Standards, Timetable, Attendance/Progress, Personal. All the
> modules are integrated in the Learning section.
>
> My current priorities are to implement Administration and very basic
> Resource, UnitsOfLearning, and Curriculum/Standards libraries. This will
>   provide a structure for most of the documentation that teachers and
> administrative staff need without changing the way they do their daily
> work. After that I would like to implement Timetable and basic Learning
> and basic Personal. After that I want to develop Learning up to Level 1
> Learning Design. So I guess I am starting at it from the other end as it
> looks like you are implementing Level 2 and 3 learning design??
>
> I would be very keen to integrate my plans with your project, so I have
> included a bit more information explaining my current model, though it
> is very open to change:
>
>
>
>
> Here is a brief outline of how the modules relate in IMSish
> nomenclature. I am not totally familiar with IMS standards, but I think
> I have got the important thing right.
>
> In Administration, Courses are organised by putting together Units of
> Learning. All the official documentation required for the school is also
> stored in this section.
> Units of Learning are created by creating Acts linking empty Roles,
> Instructions, and Resources. Units of Learning are also related to
> Objectives from external Curriculum/Standards organisations.
> A CourseInstance is based on a model Course. It fills the Roles and is
> entered into the Timetable.
> The Timetable (which includes IMS Enterprise) also manages Enrolments.
> A class plan includes an Act to mark the Attendance/Role and other Acts
> are check points to check on progress.
> The Personal area (or Portlet?) contains lists of current
> CourseInstances as well as Acts todo.
>
> I have tried to simplify the IMS specification, opting for simplicity
> and usability over the huge flexability that IMS provides. However, I
> think I could map most IMS packages into my structure without loosing
> too much information. Simplicity is the number one virtue if it is going
> to be used in a high school.
>
> I'm working on forcing teachers into using a particular structure to
> organise their information in order to maximise cooperation between staff.
>
> I have not modeled IMS Learner Information yet as I think I have more
> than enough to chew here! I would imagine this would be a seperate
> module linked to Attendance/Progress, Timetable, and Personal.
>
> My current model of Courses only provides Level 1 Learning Design. I was
> imagining that any Level 2/3 Learning Design imlementations would be
> able to be slotted into the Resource library, but I've also tried to
> make the structure of a Play close to the IMS model so that any better
> implementations than mine could slot in.
>
> Anyway, I've written enough for one post, so please feel free to give
> some feedback.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
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