[Bodington-developers] Collab authoring tool

[Adam M. <ada...@ou...>]

Comments??: 

So we had a weblearn chinwag this morning and decided that we'd look into a
'low cost' collaborative authoring tool. This is not - repeat not - a wiki.
It will have very few wiki-like features. There's no wiki mark-up, no auto
page creation, no camel case linking, no version history. 

We're pretty sure we'll be able to do this with minimal effort by 17th april
upgrade.

The basic idea will be

 - use FCK editor to produce ONE page of HTML within WebLearn
 - this is like a WebLearn room with no contents, ie, it will have a title,
sentence of description plus the HTML 'content'
 - lock the page when being edited, keep locked for 30 mins after each open
or save unless document is closed in which case locking is withdrawn
 - provide a list of document authors (but not who did what)
 - the 'content' can be protected by weblearn's ACL just like any other
resource 
 - 'content' can be exported as PDF
 - 'content' can be exported as HTML
 - possibly offer an export as RTF or DOC
 - 'one click' creation of resource - ie, easy creation

We are also going to look at the feasibility of having multiple 'pages'
within the same tool, if this is possible then we'll provide a collation of
all pages for export as PDF / HTML / zip file

Adam