Release 0.2 [March 28, 2011, 12:39 p.m.]
Content Pages
One of the main features available at release 0.2 is the suport for course content pages. The name and who can add/edit/remove them could change in the near future, but the essence behind them at release 0.2 is:
- They provide a way to add rich content inside new.p2pu.org's courses.
- They are listed on the course sidebar so people can access them quickly.
- The organizer and the participants can add/edit content pages.
- The organizer and the participants can add non-threaded rich text comments to these pages which store the disscusion associated with the page.
- The addition of new content pages or comments is a source of course updates, which appear on the course wall and trigger notifications to the organizer and the participants.
Rich Text
The rich text that forms a content page consists of:
- bold, italic, underline, strike through, subscript, superscript
- left, center, right and block justify
- number lists, bulleted lists, horizontal lines, indentation, highlighted fragments of source code, quotes.
- links, pictures, youtube videos, slideshare presentations, ...
Other features
- Manual adition of participants.
- Direct messages between organizers and participants.
- Notification settings for course updates by email.
- ...
ScreenCast
This is an screencast showing some of the features available at Release 0.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pmZgg9GyHM&feature=player_profilepage
Next Release
See lighthouse for details about the next release.