Comments on: WPMU as OCW Platform http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/970 pragmatism over zeal Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andre Malan http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/970/comment-page-1#comment-43830 Andre Malan Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:21:30 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=970#comment-43830 Hmmm... I left one thought for a solution on Jim's post, but I just thought of something else. What if you just created one blog for each department. Then, instead of making a new blog for each course, simply have each course be in its own category. You can then use the hierarchical nature of categories to separate things much more cleanly. (this will also help with the /math/math101/wiley problem). There are then three things you will have to do: 1) Come up with a good taxonomy and workflow that is as flexible as possible. 2) Create a theme that displays entries in categories as if they were separate sites. This is the hard part, but easier and cheaper than writing custom plugins. 3) Finally you may want to deal with permissions. I believe there is a plugin out there that allows you to assign per-category permissions to a user (I can't for the life of me remember what it was called), which would give your profs the illusion of living in separate blogs. As for archiving, you could just tag everything with the current year and then filter by year to have a "current" site and an "archives" site. Hmmm… I left one thought for a solution on Jim’s post, but I just thought of something else. What if you just created one blog for each department. Then, instead of making a new blog for each course, simply have each course be in its own category. You can then use the hierarchical nature of categories to separate things much more cleanly. (this will also help with the /math/math101/wiley problem).

There are then three things you will have to do:
1) Come up with a good taxonomy and workflow that is as flexible as possible.
2) Create a theme that displays entries in categories as if they were separate sites. This is the hard part, but easier and cheaper than writing custom plugins.
3) Finally you may want to deal with permissions. I believe there is a plugin out there that allows you to assign per-category permissions to a user (I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called), which would give your profs the illusion of living in separate blogs.

As for archiving, you could just tag everything with the current year and then filter by year to have a “current” site and an “archives” site.

]]> By: WPMu as OCW Platform….a solution? at bavatuesdays http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/970/comment-page-1#comment-43829 WPMu as OCW Platform….a solution? at bavatuesdays Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:54:44 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=970#comment-43829 [...] Wiley just blogged about using WPMu as an OCW solution, and one of the issues he is running into is directory structure. What he wants is each department [...] [...] Wiley just blogged about using WPMu as an OCW solution, and one of the issues he is running into is directory structure. What he wants is each department [...]

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