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This document summarizes Simone Orsi's talk about using Plone for training and distance learning at the United Nations' International Training Centre. Some of the key projects discussed include an evaluation system built in Plone for collecting and analyzing questionnaire responses, integrating SCORM packages for e-learning content, developing a course area for managing training materials and activities, and conducting several migrations of legacy websites to Plone. Plone was chosen for its flexibility, customizability, and ability to unify various online platforms and applications into a single system.

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Plone Conference Arnhem, 2012 United Nations: training and distance learning with Plone Simone Orsi
Who am I Simone Orsi twitter.com/simahawk simahawk <at> gmail.com ITCILO (2007-2008) IT specialist (WTH is Plone???) DOMSENSE (2008-2012) Python developer 4 years doing mainly Plone and OpenERP ABSTRACT (2012-) Python developer (from 1/10/2012)
What this talk is about UNITED NATIONS: ITCILO CAMPUS
What this talk is about UNITED NATIONS: ITCILO CAMPUS
ITCILO What is? ¨C International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization [1] [2] ¨C The campus is based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy What it does? ¨C Provides residential, on-line and on-the-field training to organizations and governments all around the world. Where Plone comes in? ¨C Institutional portal ¨C Intranet ¨C E-learning platforms ¨C Evaluation system [1] www.itcilo.org [2] www.ilo.org
ITCILO The Plone bet ¨C Security ¨C Flexibility ¨C TTW editing / scripting (pls don't throw this away!) ¨C Powerful ¨C Using since v1 (huge knowledge so far) ¨C Unify platforms
Projects ¡ñ Evaluation ¡ñ SCORM ¡ñ Course Area ¡ñ Conferences ¡ñ Selection ¡ñ Migrations
Evaluation Questionnaires' evaluation system ¨C Plone 3.1.5 + sqlalchemy + MySQL ¨C 8 languages (no LP, multilanguagefields [1]) ¨C Questions + legends archive ¨C Course configuration (data from MySQL MAP) ¨C Questionnaire customization ¨C Per-questionnaire editable questions ¨C Per-questionnaire resource person editable questions [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/raptus.multilanguagefields
Evaluation Questionnaires' evaluation system ¨C Customizable printing templates, headers, covers ¨C Web stats ¨C XLS export / stats ¨C CSV import / export
Evaluation Why Plone? ¨C They knew it ¨C I knew it ¨C Completely integrated into the intranet ¨C ¡°Like it or not, Plone is a platform. It is a powerful starting point for building intranets, extranets, and all sorts of things that should never be built on Plone but we do it anyways.¡± @eleddy :)
Evaluation ¨C Questionnaire config
Evaluation Questions management ¨C Multilanguage texts (in-place) ¨C Multilanguage legends (in-place) ¨C Demographic, mandatory, service or optional ¨C XLS stats export settings ¨C Customizable headers per set of questions (gender, organization, training, service)
Evaluation - Questions management
Evaluation Printing ¨C Multilang selection ¨C Different template per-language (r.multilangfields) ¨C ODT templates to PDF (relatorio lib +OOo) ¨C Custom multilang cover (specifica ATCT)
Evaluation - Printing
Evaluation Import / Export ¨C Import CSV (questionnaire results) ¨C Export CSV (questionnaire results) ¨C XLS export (results stats macro)
Evaluation Web stats ¨C Advanced search for filtering upon dates or activity code or models or technical program
Evaluation ¨C web stats
Evaluation PAX Session ¨C token ¨C When questionnaire's enabled for compilation a unique token is generated ¨C Participants can then access the questionnaire using a specific URL for every language ¨C When questionnaire's enabled for compilation all the token are deleted
Evaluation ¨C PAX session
Evaluation Future ¨C Multilang editable text ¨C Flexible answer options ¨C Flexible questionnaire web templates ¨C TTW web template editor ¨C Web stats with graphs
SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web- based e-learning. It defines communications between client side content and a host system called the run-time environment, which is commonly supported by a learning management system. SCORM also defines how content may be packaged into a transferable ZIP file called "Package Interchange Format". Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM
SCORM Plone packages ¨C collective.scormviewer [1] integrates SCORM JS API into Plone. Makes possible to play flash quiz (created with Articulate for example) and to keep track of usage and results. Thanks to Silvio Tomatis [silviot] :) ¨C collective.archiveviewer [2] Allows to read zipped file content within Plone without having to download and extract it. Used by c.scormviewer for loading SCORM packages content. [1] (not released yet) [2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.archiveviewer
SCORM
Course area ¡ñ Conferences ¡ñ Assignments ¨C Adaptation of ECAssignment ¡ñ Notifications ¨C Per-content per-user settings with manager override ¡ñ SCORM ¡ñ Selection ¨C Training tracks reservation
Conferences ¡ñ It was SoliComm (Plone 2.5, ICDL etc) ¡ñ Purpose: asynchronous training across continents ¡ñ Support Explorer 6/7 ¡ñ Low bandwidth connections ¡ñ Ploneboard heavily customized ¡ñ Read/unread feature [1] ¡ñ Statistics ¡ñ Local groups [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.readunread
Selection A training track selection wizard ¨C ATCT ¡ñ for Selection, Session, SubSession, Track objects ¨C Wizard ¡ñ a page is generated for every session (like one per day) ¡ñ A session contains sub-sessions (like time slots) that group tracks ¡ñ The PAX can select tracks to attend
Selection A training track selection wizard ¨C Contraints ¡ñ Track availability constrained on max PAX per track and duplicated selection ¨C Results ¡ñ Web ¡ñ CSV export
Migrations ITICILO.org ¨C 3.3.6 ¡ú 4.1 ¨C 4 languages ¨C Custom content types and portlets ¨C Badly broken DB connection ¨C quintagroup.transmogrifier ¡ñ All went well except for a ton of XML marshalling error ¨C Up and running pretty fast without tuning!
Migrations MMW.ITCILO.ORG ¨C 2.1 ¡ú 4.1 ¨C 7 languages (including Bahasa Indonesia, Ti?ng Vi?t, §²§å§ã§ã§Ü§Ú§Û ) ¨C Plone Article, Lingua Plone, Plone ExFile, Remember + Membrane, Ploneboard, Custom ATCTs for Member, Courses, etc ¨C A lot of scripts and templates into skins layers ¨C No portal_setup ¨C ...all the stuff you need for making a migration a pure hell :) ¨C c.transmogrifier + json to the rescue
Migrations ACTRAV.ITCILO.ORG: PHP4 ¡ú Plone 4.2 ¨C Was hacked and broken every now and then ¨C Multilang (LinguaPlone) ¨C Very bad URLs ¨C Custom pipeline for Funnelweb [1] collective.transmogrifier [2] ¨C Themed as the original one with thanks to plone.app.theming [3] [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.transmogrifier [2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/funnelweb [3] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.app.theming
ACTRAV ¨C original website
ACTRAV ¨C migrated website
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  • 1. Plone Conference Arnhem, 2012 United Nations: training and distance learning with Plone Simone Orsi
  • 2. Who am I Simone Orsi twitter.com/simahawk simahawk <at> gmail.com ITCILO (2007-2008) IT specialist (WTH is Plone???) DOMSENSE (2008-2012) Python developer 4 years doing mainly Plone and OpenERP ABSTRACT (2012-) Python developer (from 1/10/2012)
  • 3. What this talk is about UNITED NATIONS: ITCILO CAMPUS
  • 4. What this talk is about UNITED NATIONS: ITCILO CAMPUS
  • 5. ITCILO What is? ¨C International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization [1] [2] ¨C The campus is based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy What it does? ¨C Provides residential, on-line and on-the-field training to organizations and governments all around the world. Where Plone comes in? ¨C Institutional portal ¨C Intranet ¨C E-learning platforms ¨C Evaluation system [1] www.itcilo.org [2] www.ilo.org
  • 6. ITCILO The Plone bet ¨C Security ¨C Flexibility ¨C TTW editing / scripting (pls don't throw this away!) ¨C Powerful ¨C Using since v1 (huge knowledge so far) ¨C Unify platforms
  • 7. Projects ¡ñ Evaluation ¡ñ SCORM ¡ñ Course Area ¡ñ Conferences ¡ñ Selection ¡ñ Migrations
  • 8. Evaluation Questionnaires' evaluation system ¨C Plone 3.1.5 + sqlalchemy + MySQL ¨C 8 languages (no LP, multilanguagefields [1]) ¨C Questions + legends archive ¨C Course configuration (data from MySQL MAP) ¨C Questionnaire customization ¨C Per-questionnaire editable questions ¨C Per-questionnaire resource person editable questions [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/raptus.multilanguagefields
  • 9. Evaluation Questionnaires' evaluation system ¨C Customizable printing templates, headers, covers ¨C Web stats ¨C XLS export / stats ¨C CSV import / export
  • 10. Evaluation Why Plone? ¨C They knew it ¨C I knew it ¨C Completely integrated into the intranet ¨C ¡°Like it or not, Plone is a platform. It is a powerful starting point for building intranets, extranets, and all sorts of things that should never be built on Plone but we do it anyways.¡± @eleddy :)
  • 12. Evaluation Questions management ¨C Multilanguage texts (in-place) ¨C Multilanguage legends (in-place) ¨C Demographic, mandatory, service or optional ¨C XLS stats export settings ¨C Customizable headers per set of questions (gender, organization, training, service)
  • 14. Evaluation Printing ¨C Multilang selection ¨C Different template per-language (r.multilangfields) ¨C ODT templates to PDF (relatorio lib +OOo) ¨C Custom multilang cover (specifica ATCT)
  • 16. Evaluation Import / Export ¨C Import CSV (questionnaire results) ¨C Export CSV (questionnaire results) ¨C XLS export (results stats macro)
  • 17. Evaluation Web stats ¨C Advanced search for filtering upon dates or activity code or models or technical program
  • 19. Evaluation PAX Session ¨C token ¨C When questionnaire's enabled for compilation a unique token is generated ¨C Participants can then access the questionnaire using a specific URL for every language ¨C When questionnaire's enabled for compilation all the token are deleted
  • 21. Evaluation Future ¨C Multilang editable text ¨C Flexible answer options ¨C Flexible questionnaire web templates ¨C TTW web template editor ¨C Web stats with graphs
  • 22. SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web- based e-learning. It defines communications between client side content and a host system called the run-time environment, which is commonly supported by a learning management system. SCORM also defines how content may be packaged into a transferable ZIP file called "Package Interchange Format". Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM
  • 23. SCORM Plone packages ¨C collective.scormviewer [1] integrates SCORM JS API into Plone. Makes possible to play flash quiz (created with Articulate for example) and to keep track of usage and results. Thanks to Silvio Tomatis [silviot] :) ¨C collective.archiveviewer [2] Allows to read zipped file content within Plone without having to download and extract it. Used by c.scormviewer for loading SCORM packages content. [1] (not released yet) [2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.archiveviewer
  • 24. SCORM
  • 25. Course area ¡ñ Conferences ¡ñ Assignments ¨C Adaptation of ECAssignment ¡ñ Notifications ¨C Per-content per-user settings with manager override ¡ñ SCORM ¡ñ Selection ¨C Training tracks reservation
  • 26. Conferences ¡ñ It was SoliComm (Plone 2.5, ICDL etc) ¡ñ Purpose: asynchronous training across continents ¡ñ Support Explorer 6/7 ¡ñ Low bandwidth connections ¡ñ Ploneboard heavily customized ¡ñ Read/unread feature [1] ¡ñ Statistics ¡ñ Local groups [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.readunread
  • 27. Selection A training track selection wizard ¨C ATCT ¡ñ for Selection, Session, SubSession, Track objects ¨C Wizard ¡ñ a page is generated for every session (like one per day) ¡ñ A session contains sub-sessions (like time slots) that group tracks ¡ñ The PAX can select tracks to attend
  • 28. Selection A training track selection wizard ¨C Contraints ¡ñ Track availability constrained on max PAX per track and duplicated selection ¨C Results ¡ñ Web ¡ñ CSV export
  • 29. Migrations ITICILO.org ¨C 3.3.6 ¡ú 4.1 ¨C 4 languages ¨C Custom content types and portlets ¨C Badly broken DB connection ¨C quintagroup.transmogrifier ¡ñ All went well except for a ton of XML marshalling error ¨C Up and running pretty fast without tuning!
  • 30. Migrations MMW.ITCILO.ORG ¨C 2.1 ¡ú 4.1 ¨C 7 languages (including Bahasa Indonesia, Ti?ng Vi?t, §²§å§ã§ã§Ü§Ú§Û ) ¨C Plone Article, Lingua Plone, Plone ExFile, Remember + Membrane, Ploneboard, Custom ATCTs for Member, Courses, etc ¨C A lot of scripts and templates into skins layers ¨C No portal_setup ¨C ...all the stuff you need for making a migration a pure hell :) ¨C c.transmogrifier + json to the rescue
  • 31. Migrations ACTRAV.ITCILO.ORG: PHP4 ¡ú Plone 4.2 ¨C Was hacked and broken every now and then ¨C Multilang (LinguaPlone) ¨C Very bad URLs ¨C Custom pipeline for Funnelweb [1] collective.transmogrifier [2] ¨C Themed as the original one with thanks to plone.app.theming [3] [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.transmogrifier [2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/funnelweb [3] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.app.theming

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