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andrewstillman's picture
Submitted by andrewstillman on Mon, 11/27/2006 - 11:50pm.

As users, you have a keen sense of when something isn't clear or easy to use!

You also likely have great ideas that could help this online community.

Please let us know by posting below when you have a suggestion about how to help OP improve in service to its mission.

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vedran's picture

registration procedure

Submitted by vedran on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 8:16am.

Hello,

In registration procedure name of teh country Serbia and Montenegro is not valid any more. It is Republic of Serbia, thus state province is not needed any more since Serbia and Srbija is the same.

 

Thanks,

 

vedran

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auntyMEL's picture

directory

Submitted by auntyMEL on Thu, 01/11/2007 - 1:44am.

The new directory page is fantastic. I guess I better start putting key words on my work now so that is shows up. Also a big fan of the "most active curriculum topics" in the side bar, looks great.

 

melissa

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andrewstillman's picture

Thanks!

Submitted by andrewstillman on Thu, 01/11/2007 - 8:53am.

Thanks Mel!

Next we're looking to make the menus collapsible, so the suptopics fold out of the main topics when you click.

Cheers,

Andrew

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auntyMEL's picture

Inviting friends and colleagues

Submitted by auntyMEL on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 3:51am.

On some pages the "invite" says "friends" and on others it says "colleagues." Is there any real difference?

 

I sent two invites today, each to about 8 or so people. I expected to be able to see these again, as "joined, pending, expired." I also expected my "invites left" to go from 100 to 84, but it didn't. Does that mean that the functions for sending invitations differ depending on whether they are sent from within the team view or from my dashboard?

 

Thanks in advance

melissa

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admin's picture

Thanks...you're right, that wasn't clear

Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/05/2007 - 9:22pm.

Melissa,

Thanks for catching this...we'd been testing out two different invite modules, and hadn't decided yet...hence the confusion.

I've eliminated one, which simply invited people to the site, and left the other, which allows team managers to invite people to their team and the site at the same time. This avoids the confusing redundancy!

Cheers,

Andrew

 

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JOHN WRIGHT's picture

COUNTRY STATE OF ORIGIN

Submitted by JOHN WRIGHT on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 11:26pm.

Dear Andrew or whomever,

In registering I was stumped by the section on State of origin. They are all US based! Some people believe Australia is a state of USA!

Is this site exclusively for US educators?

I put in the name of a school  in New Hampshire that I know just to squeeze into the system. If there is any problem please delete me from your list.

By the way, I am particularly interested in working with teachers in Waldorf Charter schools 7-12.

Best wishes,

John Wright

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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andrewstillman's picture

Fixed....

Submitted by andrewstillman on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 1:43pm.

John,

Thanks again for the feeback. I just sent you an email on this as well...we had been stumped on how to get all provinces and countries to show up in our registration form...your prodding motivated me to figure it out.

The next step, which we'll probably hold off on for awhile, is to fully internationalize the site so that all menus and help sections are translated into whatever language you need. This can be done, but we need to build a viable open curriculum development model first, I think. Adding translation barriers to the mix is more than my brain can handle at the moment.

Cheers,

Andrew

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auntyMEL's picture

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

Submitted by auntyMEL on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 3:18am.

Andrew, I have busily inviting local colleagues as you may have seen. As much as I am used to scrolling through a list to find "home," one of my friends mentioned that it was frustrating to have to scroll through such a long list. Registration is a very minor part of what the site does, but I guess its one of the first things we all have to deal with when we find the site.

 

Good luck!

melissa

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admin's picture

Inclusion is costly

Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/05/2007 - 9:28pm.

I agree, the registration form is a nightmare...but it may not be possible to fix the problem you cite in the immediate future.

If we are to be "open" in the international sense of the word (much of the benefit of open teaching resources in particular is their benefit to developing nations) we don't have much choice but to have an international option set on the registration form.

We could eliminate the state / prvince business, but it seems to really matter from a standards perspective that people be able to locate educators in their area.

Until a "smart" form can be developed (in which the country choice then pre-empts the state-province list to be limited only to relevant choices) I'm afraid Victoria is among the last...though by no means least;)

Best,

Andrew

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dwees's picture

Updating the User Registration form?

Submitted by dwees on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 1:43am.

Hi Andrew,

The other way to do this is to create 2 items in the profile, country and province/state. Then you just include an 'other' default option for all those poor users who live in countries like, let's say the United Kingdom, that don't suffer from a decentralized 'out-of-touch' federal government.

Of course this would mean that our current users that are signed up would end up having an extra empty field show up in their profiles, but you and I could probably fix that with some database finangling.

Dave

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Jennifer Stillman's picture

searching open planning teams

Submitted by Jennifer Stillman on Sat, 12/09/2006 - 1:32pm.
The search function doesn't seem to be working. Also, we might want to have a search function for the open curriculum projects. Once the list is long, we want it to be easy to find things.
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admin's picture

Offer us FAQ questions...please!

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/29/2006 - 12:11am.
Our help and support documentation is miserable...an FAQ page might provide an important early addition to help set new users straight. If you have questions that you think would be broadly applicable to other users, please post them here as replies.
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jsaylor's picture

Barriers to getting started with a curriculum project

Submitted by jsaylor on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 6:55pm.
One thing that I experienced when I first went to set up a new project, was that I didn't know how to get started. Once I figured out the first step, I then got guided to the next step, but I remember being quite confused at the first step. I can't quite remember why it was so confusing, but it would be good to have a few other new timers, try to create a new project and make notes about where they got confused during the process.
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auntyMEL's picture

... getting started

Submitted by auntyMEL on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 2:48am.

Janet, I got totally lost on the first step too! Before making pages in a book we have to create a team. Is that what you mean?

 

melissa

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Jennifer Stillman's picture

Can I be a team of one?

Submitted by Jennifer Stillman on Sat, 12/09/2006 - 1:39pm.
The question: "start a new team" implies that a single person wouldn't be able to build a curriculum alone. Maybe we need some sort of encouragement of a team of one, because others may find you even if you can't find others.
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