Archive for the 'elgg' Category

City College Plymouth – Student Induction Afternoon

September 23rd, 2008

So today was the big one, an afternoon of inducting students from various courses at City College Plymouth.
We made a few tweaks learning from our experience yesterday with the 12 Public Services students – removed and added a few bits to the presentation and changed a few steps in the sign up process. I also [...]

Updates to ELGG and Student Info Cards

July 24th, 2008

It’s been a bit quiet on here but we have been working hard…honest! I’ve just updated ELGG to allow users to self register but they also need to supply a keycode to prevent registration outside our pilot groups but still allow the users to sign up using their prefered email addresses. This was flagged [...]

UsPaCe – Rearranging the wheels to make a better vehicle

February 22nd, 2008

After my break in Canada I’ve returned refreshed to the project. We’ve had a very busy week getting lots of things finished ready for our first two focus groups next week. In addition to learning about their current knowledge and experience using web 2.0 technologies, we are hoping to show the students a basic overview [...]

ElggJam 08 and Elgg 1.0

February 12th, 2008

Two exciting pieces of news from the Elgg community came out this week.
1.There’s going to be another ElggJam – this time in London in June. We’ll probably be there as we’ve spent a lot of time tweaking and tailoring Elgg to our needs. What’s really interesting is that one of the main uses of Elgg [...]

More ELGG Fixes

January 31st, 2008

Well it’s been a long week working on ELGG. We have had two other bugs to repair amongs other things. We have also managed to incorperate the ELGG toolbar into the top of a Mediawiki install. See here for information on how to do that.
One with the placements section which prevented mentors / students signing [...]

ELGG Fixes, Testing Etc

January 29th, 2008

This last week it seems like the most common words banded around our office have been ELGG and PHP along with some random cursing from time to time! Neil has been working hard integrating MediaWiki with ELGG along with testing a number of other pluggins.  We now have 3 installations running and too many accounts [...]

Development Update

January 21st, 2008

I realised today that I’d not done an update since last week. It’s been another busy week where we have been drawing up lots of deadlines in order to keep the project well on target for a trial of the systems in March. I have now re-skinned the UsPaCe website, Moodle, ELGG, MediaWiki and this [...]

ELGG configuration

January 16th, 2008

We’ve started working on the ELGG configuration and have found a couple of issues with v0.9. The main problem was that if a user applied to joined a Community that required approval not only did they get access without being needed to be approved that Community owner recieved an error message when approving the new [...]