QuickWorx Development Wiki

Admin Stories for Studyworx

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:06:30 +0000

StudyWorx Home This narrative is intended to describe the workflow for the admin and school leader, from the creation of a new school through the settup of all assignments and tasks. Initial School Creation * Only an admin can create a new school from scratch. * Admins must belong to the school admin school * Later a school leader can create a new instance of their school using assignments from the previous school.

Announcement Feature Specs

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:43:55 +0000

Home Announcement Feature Specs This is a school-wide announcement feature that will display on the “Home Room” page (participants:show) but could be folded into anywhere is needs to be. * I added some features to make this more or less of a school blog. * Only Staff can write on it however. * Not sure we need a staff only feature but it would not be too hard to make if the need arises. * --- Tom Possin - {:> QuickWorx.info 2010/01/31 19:40

Answers Controller Notes

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:44:35 +0000

Home Answers Controller Notes

Assignments_controller

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:23:58 +0000

Home Assignments_controller * Assignments/show needs a lot of help in formatting I don't think the div's on the right side are going to behave themselves very well in someone writes a lot of material in them. And they look kind of silly with only a little content in them as well.

Chart Builder Specifications

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:24:19 +0000

QuickWorx Wiki Home >> StudyWorx Home These are the design specs and development notes for the chart image creation features. Horizontal Chart Builder I think from what I have read that I need to start over on this and try to get gd2 working for this. Everyone seems to think that the Magick libraries are flawed and burn through all your memory in time.

Chart Text Controller Notes

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:51:41 +0000

Home Chart Text Controller Notes * Design Notes * I have altered my opinions on what the user experience should be fairly radically from my original ideas. My original idea were just too convoluted and difficult to implement. My current ideas are as follows: * There are two editors available in StudyWorx. FCKedit and WikiCreole (a plain text area with Creole parsing of the result) * The student will choose a default editor probably from the home room. (need a preferences panel…

Creating Custom toolbars

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:41:05 +0000

Home Creating Custom toolbars It is easy to create custom toolbars in FCKeditor. But getting them to show up is another question altogether. You can start by using one of the pre-made toolbars found in fckconfig.js I would suggest starting with a big one and trimming it down until you get just the features you want.

data_model

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:06:05 +0000

Home [Click to download a PDF version of the data Model for StudyWorx]

StudyWorx Data Model

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:13:15 +0000

Home StudyWorx Data Model [Click to download a PDF version of the data Model for StudyWorx]

Deployment Notes for StudyWorx with Capitrano

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:04:56 +0000

Home At this point the capistrano setup is done and should be ready to deploy when we get that far. The only thing left is to setup the the passenger restart procedures. I have some saved howtos in the bookmarks. --- Tom Possin - {:> QuickWorx.info 2009/12/08 07:01

Creating an AJAX form using FCKeditor

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:27:00 +0000

Home Creating an AJAX form using FCKeditor It can be quite a chanllenge making a remote_form_for call with the FCKeditor. This is what I finally got to work after hours of experimentation. The following code is for a partial called _outsides.html.erb build on the charttext model with the charttexts controller. the field I am editing is called content. I have to admit to being a little unsure about a couple of details of this settup as to why it works but it does and I am writing this to keep…

Getting Wicked PDF Creation in Rails

Sat, 01 May 2010 21:05:31 +0000

Home Wicked is a plug-in designed as a wrapper for the WebToolKit. WebToolKit is the heart of the Safari and Konqueror browsers so this plug-in allows you to render any HTML that Safari can render and turn into a PDF File. Wicked is a rails plug-in that allows this functionality to be integrated easily and in a very railsy way. Absolutely Awesome. No Joke.

Grades Controller Specs

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:19:09 +0000

Home * Need to provide links to finished online charts. So that grades can be given for both online charting and paper charting from the same screen. * These links might require a totally different rendering of the titles and charttexts. * This view needs to be toggleable from the student perspective as well so the student can view either the editing view or the grading view * This could also be the print view as well. * Need a started/completed/graded column somewhere. Maybe in th…

Helps Feature Specs

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:23:27 +0000

Home Helps Feature Specs The help features are basically in two parts. The Admin side that only school leaders and up can edit and the read only side. Helps from the system “school” and the participants current school need to both be available. There also needs to be a help search feature. At this point my feeling is there needs to be a help toolbar partial that can be appended to any contextual help call.

Welcome to the QuickWorx Development Wiki

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:30:46 +0000

Array This Page has actually been replaced by this one. QuickWorx Wiki Home Sorry for the inconvienience, --- Tom Possin - {:> QuickWorx.info 2010/01/07 03:29

messages_controller

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:39:46 +0000

Home messages_controller This feature is just about done. * {IMPORTANT} Need to get pagination working in the message center. Eventually there will be a lot of them. And people don't throw away stuff. * May want to list only the parent message with a message count behind it if possible. * Then I would have to compare the message count with the read count to show if their are unread messages. This would be a major rewrite of this function but definitely something to think about for …

ScreenShots of StudyWorx - Standard css

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:21:25 +0000

Home Welcome Page School Home Room page Paragraph Title Editing drag and drop and Edit in Place ScreenShots of Studyworx - Transparency css Welcome Page with transparency theme Home Room with transparency theme

Using Nested queries to check for the existence of a record

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:11:50 +0000

Home<<>>Back to Coding Tips Sometimes you want to check two lists of things to look for records that are not there. For example you may want a check a set of records looking for people that have not made an entry yet. To do this you need to compare two lists, a list of people and a list of entries. Here is how I solved that problem in StudyWorx. (Thanks to Rob Forman)

participants_controller

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:41:18 +0000

Home participants_controller Participant_id is a reference to a table that references a user, a registration, a role, and a school. This combination of objects is represented by a participant id. This id is really the foundation for all other school related references to people whether staff or student.

Paragraph Points Controller Notes

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:55:37 +0000

Home Paragraph Points Controller Notes Specifications * Need to refine the editing process (inline AJAX) * Need to make them printable (likely to be discussed and defined in the vertical chart process) * This needs to be a flexible system that works both online and as a downloaded image (or html page?)

Random Ideas to consider for StudyWorx

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:10:28 +0000

QuickWorx Development Home >> StudyWorx Home OpenID for Authentication JanRain PDFHTML

Assignment Resources Specs

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:16:05 +0000

QuickWorx Wiki Home >> StudyWorx Home This Specification describes the system that we need to connect external resources like, videos, audio files, and written documents to school assignments. This will most likely be some kind of linking system tied to the assignments Home page.

Making Rounded Corners with css 3

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:24:27 +0000

Home Making Rounded Corners with css 3 You can now make rounded corners in css (ie still in the dark) Proposed css 3 standard Firefox etc Safari and Chrome border-top-right-radius -moz-border-radius-topright -webkit-border-top-right-radius border-bottom-right-radius -moz-border-radius-bottomright -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius border-bottom-left-radius -moz-border-radius-bottomleft -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius …

Design Ideas for School Admin Features

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:24:29 +0000

Home Design Ideas for School Admin Features Book and Paragraph Admin * Book titles * Need a language_id field added to the books table * We will need different names for books of the Bible in each language * Paragraph Refs * Need a development interface that allows collaboration without too much danger of destruction * Most likely restricted to a specific team of people on a per version basis (should be easy ;p )

schools_controller

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:40:58 +0000

Home schools_controller * I need to build wizards for various admin tasks like creating a school or creating an assignment. I can use the state table for this so that people can go forward and back or jump back in where they left off. * I need to check identity on the schools (need and owner_id column) so that only school owners or site admins can edit a school.

screenshots

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:25:34 +0000

Home >> More Screenshots

Welcome to the StudyWorx Dev Wiki

Thu, 20 May 2010 16:49:24 +0000

QuickWorx Wiki Home >> QuickFrame Wiki Home This Wiki is the home of design specs and development notes to be used by the developers of StudyWorx. The pages here are generally linked to the blueprints of this project maintained at

Stickies Controller Notes

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:32:05 +0000

Home Stickies Controller Notes Need to fix the structure so that Answers,Titles, Ppoints,Charttexts all have a stickie_id. * This will allow each record the student creates to have a stickie comment added to it by the staff. * This should be an easy way to query and display these stickies also. * At this point I have not added title by title stickies although the data model is in place for this if I want to add that feature. * It would require a lot of jiggering of the title di…

Specifications for StudyWorx version 2

Thu, 20 May 2010 20:12:21 +0000

Home This page is a worksheet for delineating what belongs in the current working branch of StudyWorx and what should go into the next major release. Major New Features * Based on Rails 3 * This will likely take a major revamp of many key components in the current StudyWorx

Developer Documentation

Sat, 01 May 2010 21:08:43 +0000

Home Developer Documentation Help Wanted Here. Getting Started Without doubt the easiest way to work with me on this project is to duplicate my environment. However, since all my work is done on Ubuntu Linux that is not costly and who knows you may even like it! I would recommend a virtual machine if you do not want to change your main operating system I use VmWare's Fusion product for Mac but there are free or cheap virtualization products for all major platforms. If you want to be a…

Tasks_controller

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:10:20 +0000

Home Tasks_controller * I need to add due dates to either the task or the assignment (maybe both). FIXME Templats * The school_id is also the owner for templats I need to build in access control for templats based on school_id and the participants role.

Themes and Layout Specs

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:29:27 +0000

Home At this point the Theme engine is basically having a different css file for each theme. The participant can change themes from the preferences panel in the schools “Home Room”. These choices are saved in the participants table since that is where other participant specifications are stored.

Using tinyMCE in rails

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:19:52 +0000

Home The good news here is that this is easy to install as a gem. There are good instructions [here]. This yml file is generated during the install. I have found the plugins below to be very helpful. Any chage here will require a server restart. Any mistake is a show stopper.

Titles_controller

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:15:21 +0000

Home Titles_controller * FIXME fix a session[:version] value upon entering the school after login.

{:> Next Things to do

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:25:31 +0000

Home * Printable Archivable school records exporting. (IMPORTANT) * Fix the wording on the activation email. * Add a way to deny a registration. * Add a print button for horizontals and verticals. * Need to fix the return address on emails - maybe to match the email address of the school leader. * Need an easy way to look up a persons user account name. I weirdly buried that little tidbit. * Need to create a “all stickies” view. * Fix table view in Grading View. * Fix the ord…

Tom Possin - {:> QuickWorx.info

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:48:05 +0000

Home If you would like to help with this project or just wish to contact me please use the following contact page. Other Quickworx Links: StudyWorx - A complete Online school solution * StudyWorx Development Wiki

Turnins Design Specs

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:18:46 +0000

Home At this point it is a very basic table for marking when an entire assignment is done. Turnins Design Ideas The current design of the turn in system decouples grades from the turnin records. At first this seemed like a mistake, but after working on the design I found that the two should not be directly coupled. This allows for a lot more flexibility in the use of the program. It makes it more forgiving of out of sequence events. Plus it makes it so that it is easier to separate permi…

User Stories for StudyWorx

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:51:33 +0000

Home There are 6 types of users in StudyWorx. I will describe the function of StudyWorx by describing each users interactions. Administrator, School Leader, Assistant, Staff, Student, Visitor Refer to Data Model for help in understanding the underlying structure.

Adding colorful notes to posts

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:56:07 +0000

Home Adding colorful notes to posts This is my note ! Remember it!! Warning ! You're about to lose your mind ;-) The clues are in the images. Beware of the dog when you open the door !!

Coding Tips

Sat, 01 May 2010 20:43:55 +0000

Home Querying for things that are not there WikiCreole WikiCreole Documentation Wicked PDF Creation Getting Wicked PDF Creation FCKeditor Tips for using FCKeditor with Ajax Tips for creating custom toolbars tinyMCE editor Using tinyMCE in rails

Syntax for WikiCreole for Rails

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:15:57 +0000

Home <<>> Back to Coding Tips The following is the syntax for WikiCreole as it has been adapted for Ruby on Rails. # WikiCreole implements the Wiki Creole markup language, # version 1.0, as described at http://www.wikicreole.org. It # reads Creole 1.0 markup and returns XHTML. # # Author:: Gordon McCreight (mailto:wikicreole.to.gordon@mccreight.com) # Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2008 Gordon McCreight # License:: Distributes under the same terms as Ruby (see the LICENSE file) # Version::…