MoodleNet-meetings

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This page is a record of meetings about MoodleNet, in the spirit of working openly.

Meeting notes

Helen Foster (15th Nov 17)

Helen is Moodle Community Manager. She and Doug Belshaw (MoodleNet Lead) discussed:

• Moving MoodleNet project documentation from user docs area to dev docs.
• People like group icons and badges, which are awarded by helping (some automated, some manual)

Helen kindly put together a list of things that work well:

• Educators and developers mixing in the forums
• Groups with group icons in the forums - Particularly helpful Moodlers, Core developers, Plugin developers, Testers etc.
• Useful ratings - used to calculate PHM group membership
• Badges
• Moodle jobs database
• Answering questions by posting links to the documentation
• Moodle translation site
• A clear policy on what is and isn’t allowed with regard to advertising in the forums plus making the effort to enforce the policy
• Giving trusted people moderator and editing rights
• Communities for different languages
• Forums for different areas of Moodle e.g. themes - though not all areas of Moodle need a separate forum

...and things that are sources of frustration / not working:

• People don’t have any idea about the tracker and find it bewildering to use
• Having a different Moodle Docs wiki for each version of Moodle - causes problems when people do a Google search
• Moodle Buzz - used to work a long time ago but nowadays nobody adds anything
• Moodle.net sharing courses and content
• Less active communities on moodle.org attract spammers
• Newcomers confuse moodle.org with their own Moodle site
• People think they need to register their site for others to access
• Crowdfunding database - set up but never really used
• Front page of moodle.org!
• Moodle.org site policy - nobody notices the link in the footer of each page and you’re not required to agree to it when you sign up for an account
• Tags on moodle.org
• Confusion with moodle.org and moodle.com

Juan Leyva (15th Nov 17)

Juan is Mobile Lead at Moodle. He and Doug Belshaw (MoodleNet Lead) discussed:

• Whether we need a new app specifically for MoodleNet (undecided)
• UX around searching for Moodle installation - vs. typing in URL of organisation's instance
• Blocks within the mobile app and example of course completion being available via 'course option' in app
• Ways authentication / login currently works (OAuth / tokens) and whether it would be possible to login to a self-hosted Moodle site with a MoodleNet account
• The appear of Stack Overflow and the importance of building / maintaining reputation within a community
• Well-formed questions, moderation, and serving up answers to common questions within Moodle installations
• Improving search (which is poor at moodle.org)
• Creating progressive web apps vs native apps for MoodleNet functionality - e.g. integration with Siri / Google Now / Alexa
• Pursuing small experiments (e.g. 'MoodleNet Help' app)