Author Round table top 10 list
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10 main points from the Author round table
More detailed notes from the Author round table are also available. This is just a list of the 10 major points that were brought up by Authors.
- Speed of content creation -automated Id generation -ability to upload multiple images or other file types at once
- Functionality for combining modules into courses -ability to enter content (text) into courses that links one module to the next
- Functionality of the sectioning system -provide the ability to include subsections
- Make roles inheritable -Allow for assigning roles to workspace and not just modules/courses
- Adjusting rights within roles -primary author does not need to have edits approved
- Glossary and bibliography functionality -provide the ability to assign them to multiple modules as subsections or in their entirety
- Documentation and publicity for supported content creation tools
- Continue to work on eliminating the bottleneck for creating math content
- The ability to refresh the preview page
- Full source editing -editor moves to code for which the edit was requested
Re: Author Round table top 10 list
Posted by
jccooper
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2007-06-12 17:25
I would like to add a plug here for the ability to retire a module. Probably it's something these authors never encountered, but I think it'd help the signal-to-noise ratio and not be too hard.
Re: Re: Author Round table top 10 list
Posted by
reedstrm
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2007-06-18 12:35
I'd recommend that 'retire' and 'obsolete' are two cases we could handle. 'retire' would only remove /latest and from the search & browse, so direct links to versioned content would work. 'obsoleted' would require a pointer to the new content this is obsoleted by, so 'latest' would redirect there.
Re: Author Round table top 10 list
Posted by
maxwell
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2007-06-15 17:47
I don't understand 9 and 10. Also, are these in order of most desired, number 1 being the most wanted, or just in random order?
Re: Re: Author Round table top 10 list
Posted by
maxwell
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2007-06-18 13:54
After talking w/ Sebastian and reading the previous blog entry, I think I understand these better now. When discussing number 9, I imagined something like a 3-tab setup, where one was a code view (full-source edit), one was an edit view (EIP), and another was a preview view. And authors could go back and forth between the different tabs "instead of" following links in different places ("instead of" in quotes because they'd still be following links to different places ... it's just that the framework around where they were going would remain constant, more or less).
