Archive for January, 2008

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 [...]

SURF WBL and SPAT projects.

January 14th, 2008

SURF WBL and SPAT projects.
To help us to do this we have installed the SURF WBL Learning objects and have converted the SPAT materials to Learning Objects. All these materials are now available from our new Moodle site
To access the materials you will have to register on our Moodle site (http://www.uspace.org.uk/moodle) but I would appreciate [...]

New Year Progress

January 10th, 2008

After a nice Christmas break we’ve been busy working on development of the UsPaCe systems. We have now got all the systems installed. Mahara, an open source e-portfolio tool was the last to be installed. We have decided to compare this to ELGG in order to find the best for the project.
Neil has begun to [...]