Date
Monday, May 22, 1pm EDT / 5PM UTC
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HGb9Bxx_fFSHdrF9htmIhdSJuxQUU5QT/view?usp=sharing
Minutes
Review Working Group Charter
We reviewed our charter here: Educators Working Group
Product Roadmap for Educators & Course Creators
Product Roadmap Group
Last year was about wrangling and organizing all the various initiatives happening across the community.
This coming year will be identifying areas of strategic investment and strategic development.
Visual problem editor
The Visual Problem Editor is a much more visual and user-friendly problem editor provides a more wizard-like problem editor as opposed to the old markdown editor.
Status: Live for edx.org, coming in Palm
Learn more: [2U] New Visual Problem Editor
Copy/paste in course outline [5 mins]
Copy-Paste editor allows you to easy copy content from one part of your platform (within the same course or across different courses) and paste it elsewhere in the course.
Starting with the ability to copy components, and will eventually add units, subsections, sections.
Status: In development; Anticipated live for edx.org in summer 2023, coming in “q”
Learn more: Approach Memo: Studio Copy & Paste for Content Reuse Across Courses
Content tagging and taxonomy management [5 mins]
Status: In design; Anticipated live for edx.org in Q4 2023, coming in “r”
Learn more: Content Tagging Approach MVP
The Product Wiki
The product wiki is where the community can follow new product developments from design through implementation, and also get involved with the teams that are building them.
The specific “process” for joining these projects is flexible, so reach out to the teams running them.
You can “follow” certain topics in the wiki by “watching” a page or collection of pages:
Relationship to the Product Roadmap board in Github
Product roadmap link: https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/4
Github tasks are created when more specific work get tasked from a project. Product wiki is an umbrella space and provides context for more specific github tasks.
Commenting on a github ticket or issue
Testing update and documentation introduction
A call for volunteers to be co-organizers for a documentation project was put out.
Julie Mullen volunteered to co-organize.
Jesper Frant volunteered to help support documentation as volunteer.
Asynchronous Agenda Items
Product Roadmap Input:
Jenna Makowski asked the #wg-educators working group for feedback on how we can make the assessment capabilities of the Open edX platform better?
Link to jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/d/148MKsNl02ikWITpTmMGd04-YZyWd7U-NviO-llDxsvU/viewer?f=0
The next brownbag
A vote for the next brownbag will occur in Slack
Action Items
Jenna Makowski to review the Confluence wiki permissions to see if normal users can follow Product Planning Pages
@wg-educators to review the Assessment Capabilities jamboard and provide feedback.
John Swope to put out a call for documentation co-organizers
John Swope will post a survey about the next brownbag session