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A lightweight VLE for the "flipped classroom"
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Text-based IDs in URLs #11

Closed liam-m closed 8 years ago

liam-m commented 9 years ago

From the DAMS Q&A:

Can we change the way in which videos (etc.) are identified? Using an array index into the JSON file seems a bit brittle...

Sure. It's something that I put off in the original implementation, but I agree that more permanent IDs would be useful. Please feel free to make this change to your fork of Flippd if it helps with any of your portfolio pieces. My preference going forward would be for text-based IDs (e.g., "why-cohesion") rather than numeric IDs (e.g., "42"). That's because if I want to insert a new video at a later date, it'd be weird to have video 1, then video 54, and then video 2 in the JSON file. Update: Tom Bryant (Team Dawson) has put together a modified module.json for Flippd that contains these textual IDs.

We decided to do this, as-per Louis's suggestion, in the meeting on 12/11.

liam-m commented 8 years ago

Completed in https://github.com/Lixquid/flippd/commit/9564dfa90f0954e5ec6b17dee3884b8d0ddd6699