Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: LAMS Internationalization Update + Inputs and Output!

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear translators,

The latest translated labels have now been added to the code and the translations server has been updated.

We are working on a really interesting feature that you will be able to play with, see the "Inputs and Outputs" lesson I have added there....

For a long time, we've been talking about getting tools to share their content with each other. The most typical case would be for a Q&A to share the responses it gets with a Voting tool... The main pedagogical idea here can be to ask the students a question and use their answer in a voting activity. So for instance in the Q&A you can ask the students: "What's your favorite color?". And then their responses will be voting candidates/options they can vote for in the following Voting tool.


So in the "Input and Output" sequence you can see lots and lots of activities being input for the following Voting activity.

For instance, in the Image gallery tool, the students can upload a picture and then in the following activity, they get to see the pictures and vote for their favorites.

But same goes for forum (the text enter by each student), chat, Pixlr (each image for each student), share resources, notebook, submit files.. so each of the contributions in these activities, become the input for the voting tool.

Very cool, hey?

Now, as you can see, we only have managed to do the runtime for it... we need to change authoring so teachers can draw "data transitions" between these activities and exchange the data... we'll get there though and then you can create your own dataflows.

Let us know what you think when you have a chance.

Thank you,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione