Alex Little

Got a bit frustrated with SourceForge today!! I was trying to check in some changes I’d made to joinin.cvs.sf.net but it kept failing because the address couldn’t be found. Turns out that I have to use joinin.cvs.sourceforge.net and that worked ok, but meant I had to check everything out to a new location then overwrite that version and check in again – all a lot of hassle for something that worked fine a week or so ago

Also looking at setting up a proper website for the JoinIn project, so that it’s not just this blog page, we’ve already created an area on the OU KN for the project and we’re just getting the content updated, so once that’s done and we’ve made the pages public, I’ll post the link up.

Sourceforge have now confirmed the registration of our JoinIn project, the link to it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/joinin, but obviously there’s nothing there yet. I’ve been having more discussions on our team to sort out various issues, for example which database formats we are going to support, which versions of Moodle etc we’ll be using. I’ve also received further clarification from Ernie about how the Moodle/LAMS link up will work, regarding the groups. So I’m just updating our document and will post it up shortly (as I keep saying!!). Juliette as also been looking up on the Moodle forums queries and problems from real users regarding groups, to see how our toolkit can help address them. However, we do need to remember that we’re doing a toolkit which could be used for any VLE, we’re not just doing Moodle development, though we happen to be using Moodle as our first VLE to test the toolkit architecture on.

Have also had an email from Sam at JISC regarding which version of IMS Enterprise and the SDK we’ll be using. At the moment it looks like we’ll have to start off  using Scotts SDK (which uses v1.0 of Enterprise), as it’s likely that a newer version won’t be available for a few months. Depending on the timing of the release of the new version, and how much the API and outputs have changed to the current version, we’ll try and use the more recent version in our toolkit.

 I have now released the latest version of the Sled player on the Sourceforge website. You can find the installation instructions and download links in the ‘technical’ section on the Sled website.