Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Re: Re: Sequence storage LAMS V2 vs LAMS V1

By: Fiona Malikoff

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Technically an automatic "Public" area could be done. Whenever a new author or author admin is added LAMS, they would be automatically added to the Public area.

If you removed all authoring access for someone, the system administrator would probably need to remove the user manually from the Public area.

But what would people rather - an automatic Public area or more tools, more integrations, branching and then even more complex branching and sequencing, etc. That is, how important would this really be to people?

As the Technical Lead who looks down the list of bugs, improvements, enhancements, etc wondering where we get the hours from to do it all, I'll be asking folks to give LAMS 2.0 and the new course structure a go for a couple of months and see if you really really do need a Public area.

Changing habits can be hard!

You might want to ask yourself what you would really put in Public now. What if you were a high school and all your teachers put their designs that they want to share with the other teachers. Next year you decide to run a pilot scheme with your prefects, where they make up sequences for Peer Support groups they run (is it still called that these days?) So you give authoring access to the prefects. Now they can see stuff in Public too.

So the stuff in Public is not just accessible to anyone currently an author but potentially to anyone who may ever be an author on your LAMS installation.

Of course, you may have some wonderful designs that you want to share with the world if that was possible. There's always the LAMS Community for that. (grin)


Fiona

Posted by Fiona Malikoff