FYI: INSTITUTE AND RELATED: So, fixed one bug late last night. Picking through t

FYI: INSTITUTE AND RELATED: So, fixed one bug late last night. Picking through the code (I’m guessing was written in east Asia somewhere), it looks like once someone has taken a quiz you can’t modify it without screwing up the navigation. Its sort of a ‘version’. So to modify it, you create a new quiz and just re-use the questions you want. This is what’s causing the navigation problem when taking the quiz. Does it matter? in reality there will never be any quizzes, only assignments. The only reason we use the quiz functionality is to make a record of agreement with terms and conditions.

I’ve looked at all the competing software and it’s almost all geared to either quiz-based (making money for authors), or full-featured for teachers (Blackboard, Canvas, etc) The reason for our limited choices is fear of being de-platformed. So we need to own the software, data, and hosting. The only alternative is Moodle which requires a rewrite of our site and I don’t have time for that.

None of which matters much unless I can get my current work done ( which I won’t go into here – it’s more foundation work on the origin of western thought on one hand (interesting), a few pieces on the economics of whiteness (for general use), completing the piece on Abrahamism vs Europeanism, and completing the piece on The Course and Conduct of a Civil War.

Not sure how much work I’m going to put into the constitutional reforms (second declaration) vs the dummies version and the courseware. I’m more motivated to pursue the intellectual than the political at the moment and my motivation drives the focus of the work.

I spent about a week on tech which I’ll answer in the next post.