ehmatthes
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9 years ago Let's first think about what users will need to do, in order to build a set of standards on Open Competencies:
- Create a user account.
- For now, this will be a simple username/ password. Full implementation will require an email confirmation, which enables password reset. This is important, because people being locked out of their accounts would lose a lot of work.
- Create or join a school.
- Creating a school is straightforward, because the user will then take ownership of the school they create.
- Joining a school involves sending a message to the school's owner, who will then have to approve the request. This will be in a separate milestone.
- Create content:
- Create a subject area, such as Science or Cross-Curricular Standards.
- Create Graduation Standards.
- Create Performance Indicators.
- Create Learning Objectives.
- View content:
- In a simple hierarchical view (ie, view the entire system dumped into a single page).
- In a single-page summary of a subject area.
- One goal of the GSP model is to constrain a set of standards to a manageable size. The system should help enforce this constraint.
- Share content:
- From the site itself.
- Through shareable documents:
- Formats to consider: text, markdown, .doc, .pdf
Since most users of Open Competencies come from a non-technical background, the user interface needs to be as simple and clean as possible, as early as possible. Having a clear ui outlined will also guide development in this milestone.