ECLecture 1.2 and ECAssignmentBox 1.3

The eduComponents team is pleased to announce the release of
ECLecture
1.2 and ECAssignmentBox 1.3.

ECLecture 1.2
=============

About this release

    - Inherits from ECFolder (from the ECAssignmentBox
product), if
      available. This enables the use of ECLecture as a
top-level folder
      for a course with the statistics and assignments
listing functions
      from ECFolder.

    - Internal registration support: If you enter
"ecl_register" into
      the Registration link field, ECLecture will handle
registration to
      the course. Users who want to register must be known
to Plone. You
      must also set an Associated group in ECLecture.

About ECLecture

  ECLecture is a Plone product for managing lectures,
seminars and
  other courses.

  ECLecture is licensed under the GPL and is freely
available from:

    <http://plone
.org/products/eclecture/>

ECAssignmentBox 1.3
===================

About this release

  - ECFolders and assignment boxes now have an
"analysis" tab which
    provides more information about contained assignments,
e.g., number
    of attempts users needed for an assignment or number of
submissions
    per day.

  - The "assignments (full)" view (shows the full
text of all
    assignments on one page) is now integrated in the
"assignments" tab.

  - New content type ECAssignmentTask, which can be used to
build a
    repository of assignments; ECAssignmentTask objects can
be
    referenced from ECAssignmentBoxes.

  - If an assignment box is located inside an ECLecture
object which
    requires registration, submissions are only allowed for
users
    enrolled in the course.

About ECAssignmentBox

  ECAssignmentBox is a Plone product which allows the
creation,
  submission and grading of online assignments (exercises,
homework),
  both for traditional on-site courses and for e-learning.

  ECAssignmentBox is licensed under the GPL and is freely
available
  from:

    <http://
plone.org/products/ecassignmentbox>

  The basic idea is that teachers create assignment boxes
into which
  students submit their answers or solutions.  The student
submissions
  are then put through a number of workflow states,
typically submitted,
  accepted and graded.  The teacher can view the
submissions, assign a
  grade and add feedback.  The assignment workflow is
designed to
  accommodate different processes.

  Assignment boxes can be grouped together using ECFolders,
which
  provide specialized view templates and statistics for the
assignments
  they contain.  ECFolders can be nested.  You can use them
to
  represent, for example, courses and weekly worksheets.

-- 
Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                   <mxpiws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg              WDOK
Research Group


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> The eduComponents team is pleased to announce the
release of ECLecture
> 1.2 and ECAssignmentBox 1.3.

I don't know if I asked before, but how does EC* Plone
products 
(would/could/should) compare with/complement SchoolTool ?

Cheers,

Yves Moisan


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On 2007-06-27, Yves Moisan <ymoisangroupesm.com> wrote:

>> The eduComponents team is pleased to announce the
release of ECLecture
>> 1.2 and ECAssignmentBox 1.3.
> 
> I don't know if I asked before, but how does EC* Plone
products 
> (would/could/should) compare with/complement SchoolTool
?

The goals and the means of the eduComponents and SchoolTool
are quite
different.  From the SchoolTool Web site: "SchoolTool
is not a framework
for teaching content, it is a framework for school
administration."  The
goal of the eduComponents, on the other hand, is to offer an
alternative
to regular learning managment systems (LMS) like Blackboard
or
Moodle. [1]

The technical approach is also different: SchoolTool is a
Zope 3
application, while the eduComponents are regular Plone
products.

So, based on the functionality, you could see them as
complementary, but
they run on different platforms.

Greetings


Footnotes: 
[1]  For more background you may want to have a look at our
publications
     <htt
p://wdok.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/publikationen>

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Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg              WDOK
Research Group

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Hi,

On 2007-06-28, Yves Moisan <ymoisangroupesm.com> wrote:

> Thanx for the clarifications.  I guess the question
that lies underneath 
> is how both projects could somehow converge towards an
"integrated" 
> solution, especially given that Plone is moving towards
a Zope 3 
> implementation.

Frankly, I don't think Plone will run on Zope 3 anytime
soon.
Concerning the other point, see below.

> Last year I gave a shot at CanDo but found the windows
installation was 
> a pain.  It still is and so is SchoolTool.  I
understand the functional 
> differences of your project with SchoolTool/CanDo
(incidentally they are 
> sprinting now, I gather), but my feeling is that there
are a great many 
> shared needs (e.g. workflows) that would gain from some
potential 
> factoring out of components out of the two.  The ease
of Plone in 
> SchoolTool, if that is at all possible.

I see what you mean, but on the conceptual and architectural
levels, the
approaches of SchoolTool and the eduComponents are really
very
different.  The important point about the eduComponents is
that you can
pick just the components you need and mix and match them
with other
products, all on the basis of a general-purpose CMS, which
gives you the
basic content management functionality, workflows, user
management,
etc.  AFAICS, SchoolTool takes the more traditional approach
of an
"integrated" application.

So, if you need additional functions, the eduComponents
approach would
be to use a Plone product that provides this function.  For
example,
courses managed with ECLecture often contain reading
lists--we don't
need to re-implement bibliography management, just use
CMFBibliographyAT.  Of course, in some cases you may need
tighter
integration, e.g., to combine ECLecture and Booking, but
that wouldn't
really be difficult.

> 2 cents from an interested outsider.

Well, thanks for you interest!

Greetings

-- 
Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                   <mxpiws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg              WDOK
Research Group

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