Archive for April, 2010

New: Class status

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Each class now has a status property, which can be either “Under Construction” or “Established.”  This indicates whether or not all of the lessons and assignments have been added to the entire class.

The class status can only be set by the creator, or another class administrator.  It’s a way to indicate that the class has finally been fully built-out, and if a user is to complete all of the assignments, they should get credit for completing the entire class.

An established class can still be edited in any way, even to add more content.  However, students need to have some kind of target to shoot for, and it wouldn’t make sense to take away credit for a completed class just because an instructor comes along later and adds something new.

Class Progress in User Profile

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Your user profile just got useful.  Instead of just showing you a boring list of the classes you’re enrolled in, you can now see a progress bar that shows how much of a class you’ve completed:

You can get to your profile page at http://curiousreef.com/username.  Check it out, and look for even more improvements there in the future.

Add an Avatar

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

You can now update your avatar in your user profile page here:

http://curiousreef.com/user/avatar

The default avatar still pulls from Gravatar, but if you don’t want to use them or want to override your Gravatar, just upload your new image.

Try it out!  It adds personality to the discussions.