Feature Request: New Activity Type - "Peer-Curated Collections"

Current activity types appear to be variants of multiple choice.  This is 
restrictive, repetitive and boring if overused. In addition, these 
automatically-marked forms of activity are performed in isolation by students, 
and do not take advantage of the internet's inherent "connectedness" to provide 
opportunities for students to exchange ideas and communicate in ways that 
enhance their learning experience.

In the "Peer-Curated Collection" activity type, students would be asked to 
contribute items to a course-wide "database" of materials.  These might be 
media created by students (e.g. images, video, audio), items of writing, (e.g. 
poems, stories), or other items.  There would be a number of ways to enable 
curation of this content: for example, a student could "add" an item to one or 
more of their personal "galleries" or collections, signifying their personal 
endorsement of that item and raising its "status" in the course-wide 
collection.  There could be a "vote" feature where students could assign their 
own personal value (e.g. "4 stars") to any given item.

There should also be a "Comment" feature allowing for peer feedback on any item 
posted, and a "Report" function that could be moderator-managed or 
community-managed (or both).  In the case of moderator-managed reporting, a 
moderator would be required to block or remove content from the community 
collection.  In the case of community-managed reporting, a certain number of 
"reports" would automatically make an item unviewable, but the item could be 
reinstated by a moderator.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by leonard....@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2012 at 1:57

asaeed88 / course-builder

Feature Request: New Activity Type - "Peer-Curated Collections" #5