Gearing up for OpenLearn launch
Spent last couple of days getting ready for the OpenLearn launch tomorrow. We’ve created a short demo video to show all 3 of the KMi tools (MSG, Compendium and FlashMeeting) being used together, we’ll get the video put up on the web hopefully sometime next week.
Still been getting some quite erratic problems with launching MSG from the web browser (or using the click to chat function) – and it’s quite hard to replicate any of the problems as they aren’t occuring reliably, a possible reason is that some of the ‘messages’ are getting lost either between browser & Moodle server or between Moodle server and MSG server.
Final thing we’ve (well, actually Chris!!) been working on is to resolve the problem that enrollment on a course in Moodle doesn’t filter through to the MSG application for a few hours. This looks very odd for users, especially first time users, as teh MSG block in Moodle will show a number of contacts, but launch MSG and none of them appear. The reason is due to the 6 hour cache on the Wildfire (MSG) server. We could reduce this, but then performance of MSG client may suffer. Chris has worked out a ‘cunning plan’ where by when a user logs in to MSG this triggers a background process to update the cache for that particular user. This should mean that the MSG groups/membership details will appear straight away rather than having to wait for the cache to expire.
