Re: Re: Org-Mode as authoring tool for Moodle courses

From: Gruenderteam Berlin <gruenderteam.berlin@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Org-Mode as authoring tool for Moodle courses
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:25:21 +0200	[thread overview]
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Thanks for your instructing answer,  Lukasz.
It did not occur to me, that using org-mode instead of moodle could be a
solution, but it may actually be the best solution.  Moodle-Hosting is quite
expensive anyway, seems to use many ressources.
So I have to think about a way how to publish org-mode online courses into a
- say scala/lift project -, because I would like to have user management,
authentication, paypal and credit-card services for free (thats what Lift
offers, i.e.).
Or does almigthy org-mode delivers that too?  ;-)
A main disadvantage would be that one can't get started other course-authors
as fast on org-mode as on moodle/exelearning.

I think moodle is a school with courses, and org-mode should be definitely
better for writing online courses, but I need the school too for all the
administration stuff, and I don't want to program that. Maybe Lift or Django
can be used, and the result is much more flexible than moodle.

I have to try the SCORM package instructions - thanks a lot
Cheers
Thorsten

2010/10/21 Łukasz Stelmach <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl>

> Gruenderteam Berlin <gruenderteam.berlin@googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> > beeing still in the process of learning the amazing org-mode,
>
> This never ends ;-)
>
> > I wonder if somebody has tried to use org-mode's publishing capacities
> > as an authoring tool for the Online Learning Platform Moodle
>
> We had tried to use moodle at our division before I learnt about
> org-mode, and frankly speaking I didn't like moodle that much. Today, I
> prepare and publish my courses with org-mode as standalone
> web-pages. Considering endless capabilities and flexibility of org-mode,
> moodle just scares me. Take for example grading. Org's spreadsheet
> (or column-view, I have to try it out myself) is by far more convenient
> to use than moodles tables. OK, that's enough, I suppose you'd like to
> read something more constructive.
>
> As I said I haven't done this myself but this is how I imagine this can
> be done, here and now with as little elisp coding as possible.
>
> 1. Create org files in a directory structure resembling the structure of
>   the SCORM zip file. That's obvious.
> 2. Set up a publishing project [[info:org:Publishing]]
> 3. Add "static" content (scripts, images) that will be published with
>   org-publish-attachment function.
> 4. Create a script (this might imho be a shell script) that generates
>   manifest file. Launch it after publishing using :completion-function
>   project parameter. The script may create a zip file too. And upload
>   it... too ;-)
>
> What I don't know (as I browse through a SCORM zip for the second time
> in my life) is what are all xsd files for and how to create them. Are
> they optional? Does their content depend on the contents of the course?
> If it does then elisp coding might be inevitable, however, since org
> generates XHTML it can be reliably parsed with some external tools.
>
> If I had to use moodle today I definitely would use org-mode for html
> authoring: exporting to a temporary HTML buffer and then c'n'p to a
> browser window.
>
> I know that's not much but I hope I wrote something you haven't known
> already or at least I give you a new idea how to put things together.
>
> --
> Miłego dnia,
> Łukasz Stelmach
>
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