I put my idea up (about the group learning community), because I'd like it to be made. Even if I'm not the one to make it. It scratches one of my itches.
I saw that item on the list and thought that it resembled the website I recently launched: http://www.crunchcourse.com/ Is that similar to what you were thinking? I'd be interested to get your feedback on it.
That fills the same space as to what I was thinking about, cool! I'll have to try setting a course up.
I thought of some form of karma might be needed to avoid people joining a class and spamming the forum. But that is probably a issue for later.
More communication methods would be good. IRC server with a web client, and per class chat rooms that saved the chat logs.
The major suggestion I have at this stage is to separate the module from the class. So that different groups can follow the same module. Too many people following the same class would generate too much traffic.
I'd also though it would be nice to signal that you were willing to run a course if enough other people wanted to join a subject.
I also think that some way to create tests would be useful. Of course it wouldn't be under exam conditions, but it would be a nice way of seeing how you were doing.
You are basically setting up a community of some sort, which has the basic problems of.
1. Too quiet
2. Too Noisy
3. Attracts spammers/trolls
Wow, thanks for the list. That's more features than I have time to add though. For some of the bigger items like the whiteboard, I'm hoping people can use other services in the mean time. Some of those items are being worked on now though.
Thanks, those are great points. Spam hasn't been an issue so far, which is good. I'm working on a couple of those things already. I'm not sure if it's busy enough yet to generate an active IRC channel for each class, but people are always free to set one up on their own and post the info
