2023-05-22 Educator WG: Charter Discussion

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

    • Link: Open edX Product Management

    • 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:

      • Open

        

         

    • Relationship to the Product Roadmap board in Github

      • Product roadmap link: Open edX Roadmap • openedx

      • 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 - DONE

@wg-educators to review the Assessment Capabilities jamboard and provide feedback.

@John Swope to put out a call for documentation co-organizers - DONE

@John Swope will post a survey about the next brownbag session - DONE