I recently highlighted some of the key things to know about the Grav Open Course Hub project, and I thought I would share them here too:
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— Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) March 8, 2018
Perhaps one of the most unique aspects of the @getgrav Open Course Hub is that Theme files (incl. CSS) are auto-synced with content to GitHub/GitLab/etc. so tech-savvy instructors (and students!) can provide hands-on authoring help to other Open Course Hub users.
I recently tweeted a set of updated Grav Open Course Hub workflow diagrams, and I thought I would share them here:
Figure 1. Grav Open Course Hub Workflow.
With the release of the Open Course Hub 2.0 package, three example sites are included in the Course Hub Bootstrap theme’s _demo folder; basic, intermediate and advanced. Let’s take a brief look at the visual appearance and highlights of each example:
Continue ReadingThe Grav Open Course Hub supports a number of optional URL flags (i.e. parameters) to better support embedding Hub content into other LMSs such as Canvas or Moodle:
chromeless - hide all global navigation elements
summaryonly - display the summary of a blog post
hidepagetitle - hide the title of a page
Long on my to-do list was to further explore how Grav Open Course Hub content could be displayed within the popular open source Moodle LMS. Curious about the initial results? You can explore a live demo at paulhibbitts.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=2 and view some draft docs at learn.hibbittsdesign.org/coursehub/integrating-grav-with-moodle.
Figure 1. Grav Course Hub content within Moodle.
Having just finished my 20th offering (in 20 years, how did that happen?) of CMPT-363 at SFU I will be getting back to posting more frequently about my on-going work with Grav in the field of education… stay tuned.
I am excited to be part of SFU’s DEMOfest this year, where I will be presenting and discussing with my fellow educators the advantages of using the Canvas LMS with Grav:
Canvas Assessment Strengths
- Assignment submissions and rubrics
- Surveys, quizzes, and graded discussion forums
- Multi-course calendar and gradebook
A safe place for student assignments and data, and where most of our students are!
Grav Content Management System Strengths
- Free open source software (FOSS) project
- A modern flat-file (no database) CMS, which supports custom page types and modular content
- The platform-independent format Markdown is supported, and pages remain as individual files
- Fully extensible, with support for HTML, CSS, Twig, JavaScript, Google Fonts, YAML, etc.
For tech-savvy educators a modern and flexible platform under their full control!
This little project is the result of both a new need for my Fall 2017 CMPT-363 Course Hub (notice the Paul’s Web Pick of the Week in the sidebar) and wanting to create an example illustrating how Grav natively supports custom content page types and modular content.
While I’ve been in ‘heads-down’ mode with my SFU CMPT 363 User Interface Design course for the start of the Fall term, I thought I would share here news of my most recent Grav open education project!
Grav Open Publishing Space Space with Git Sync is designed to publish, share and collaboratively edit Markdown-based content using the modern flat-file Grav CMS.
Figure 1. Open Publishing Space
