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    • Best way to create private raea for e-learning

    Posted by poveyjo posts: 7

    Hi,

    We're using Tikiwiki to host an online training course. So fra we have all the course content loaded in our wiki, which is great.

    but we want to achieve something like the following, using tikiwiki:

    1. User logs in and is redirected to their personal 'workspace'
    2. This 'workspace' can only be viewed by them and the teachers.
    3. From this workspace, the teacher and student can communicate (e.g. via comments, or private forum), up load files etc etc. The workspace would also contain teacher edited content, explaining what lessons to read etc.
    4. Preferably, the dialogue between the teach and student would be send emails as well as be recorded on the site (I see the forums can do this - but can they be made private to one member and the admins only?).

    I'll keep reading up on tikiwiki, but if anyone can give me some starters on how to achieve this, that would be great. I'm a bit overwhelmed as to which of TW's many features would be best for this.

    Do any of the existing 'profiles' achieve something like this?

    If not, is the above possible using the existing set of TW features?

    Any tips much appreciated, many thanks.

    Jon

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    Posted by Xavier de Pedro posts: 1817 Catalan Countries

    Hi Jon, and welcome to Tikiwiki community! smile

    Have a look at Aulawiki for tiki 2.x: Mod AulaWiki
    In tiki 3.x, the mod has some unresolved minor issues, and it can be also used with some care to avoid the issues. If you want to use it for education, you'd better stay at tiki 2.x for a while and use it in conjuction with Aulawiki & its workspaces. They were designed specifically for what you are looking for.

    See also: http://edu.tikiwiki.org and join us there too! :-)
    (it's a site on a extremely slow server on shared hosting, however, take you time while loading edu.tw.o - that site needs to be migrated)

    Cheers

    xavi

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    Posted by poveyjo posts: 7

    HI Xavi, many thanks for this.

    I've installed aulawiki and starting playing with it's workspaces. can you confirm that would you need manually create a workspace for each student, and assign all the modules and permissions one by one?

    or is there a way to create some kind of template and apply it to each student?

    Thanks!

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    Posted by Xavier de Pedro posts: 1817 Catalan Countries

    You are welcome Jon

    You need to create one workspace for each class or course, and at ensure you select a workspace type that "personal workspaces" inside (like learning folder or portfolio). This way, when the user clicks on his username within the users list workspaces_module or workspaces_child (I don't remember right now), the personal workspaces are created on the fly.

    Install first in a local installation of yours (your own computer, etc), play with it, until you master the procedure. Then you are ready to do things the right way in the server.

    HTH

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