using subdomains in opigno

Mon, 05/04/2015 - 16:04

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Hello... I'm new to opigno and drupal but determined to learn the best approach for anything. and thats why I'm trying to use opigno for my site. I am playing with opigno for few days and keen to use it to develop an educational site along with drupal. My use case is as follows: my site will be for indian school goers. there are different boards of education in india and there will be option to select from say Board1, Board2, Board3 etc. while creating account. anonymous user can browse free content present anywhere. In each board there will be classes/standards 1 to 10 (or 1 to 12 in future). user will be needed to select the class at registration but will be free to change it later (means he/she can subscribe for only one class/standard at a time. Each class/standard will have all the subjects including but not limited to maths, science, english etc. In each subject there will be different chapters and lessons associated with the concerned class/standard. user may be able to subscribe for all subject he/she may opt to subscribe for single subject. To achieve this I want to distribute the content related to different subjects to different subdomains as each subject will have entirely different content. Taxonomy may used for boards and chapters. I'm confused about using opigno class or taxonomy for classes/standards. I don't know whether or not my approach will be good. Also I don't know how to achieve my goal in best way keeping in mind that site will become quite huge with thousands of pages after loading full content. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

axel

Tue, 05/05/2015 - 16:31

Hi

I'm not sure to understand what is your precise question.

It's possible to implement what you describe, but it will imply many changes.

I would not advise to use subdomains, you will add an additional complexity regarding to the authentication. You may simply use categories (taxonomy)

Best regards

Tue, 05/05/2015 - 17:41

My question is

Thanks for your valueable response. My question is that i want to develop an easy to maintain and easy to browse e-learning website and I don't know how to do that properly and in the best way. I know that authentication and shopping cart (if enabled) may be a problem in case of subdomains but as I googled I found cas module for authentication workaround(but it will add to complexity to my work a lot) can you guide me step by step how to start my work and what changes I'm supposed to bring about to have the functionality as explained in my earlier post. Sorry if I'm not clear again there is one more concern about keeping content for different subjects in different folders. Is it possible without using subdomains? Thanks

axel

Tue, 05/05/2015 - 18:37

So every subject would have a

So every subject would have a dedicated Opigno instance? Is it what you mean by "in different folders"?
You say that classes will include different subjects. In this case it will not be possible to have a class across many Opigno instances.

It's really difficult to guide you step by step, without knowing precisely what you want to do, the context, the requirements (for example: why do you want to have a dedicated folder for each subject? Why don't you let Opigno manage the files classification and access rights?), etc. The best is that you ask precise questions on this forum and we will try to help you.

From what I understand I would say that the subject would be the course category in Opigno, the chapter a course, with lessons inside. It's absolutely not a problem to have tenths of thousands of pages within a single Opigno instance.

Tue, 05/05/2015 - 19:31

my only concern is maintainability

Thanx for your advise. I'll try to be as precise as possible. my real concern is maintainability nothing else. If there will not be any problem with all the content in same place then I have no problem with Opigno managing content and permissions. I'm now clear about subject, chapter and lesson as explained by you. Now advise me on assigning different boards to different classes for example: **Board1** has classes 1 to 10 similarly **Board2** has classes 1 to 10 but with different content. Although classes will have different content but they may share some chapters or lessons of any subject accross both the boards. What I can think about is to create a vocabulary 'Board' and create terms 'Board1', 'Board2' etc. and add term field for it in the class content type (I must tell you that in India there are different boards of education with different schools affiliated to them. same standard or class in different boards may or may not have same content or syllabus.) Am I on right track? next I want to have the ability to attach any question to one or more lessons attached to any class or chapter(course in Opigno). Is it possible? thanx in advance.

axel

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:25

Sorry for the late answer

Your idea with taxonomy seems nice.

Regarding the fact to attach questions to one or more lessons, it's perfectly possible as well.

Best regards

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 14:35

Sorry for late response

I apologize for not being able to answer for a long time for a personal reason. hope you don't mind. please guide me to attach a question to more than one lessons.

Alquinrex

Mon, 01/25/2016 - 18:57

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PersonalLMS

Thu, 06/22/2017 - 18:26

Hi! I'm trying to create a new account

... but the site is rejecting every single subdomain I'm trying to use. I can't find a standard to use or instructions on creating one. It's just not letting me create an account for a free cloud-based Opigno instance. Help! Dr. Terrance Harrington Director of Instructional Technology

James Aparicio

Fri, 06/23/2017 - 09:08

Hi PersonalLMS,

That is very strange. What are the names you are trying?

Best regards

PersonalLMS

Mon, 06/26/2017 - 00:19

It does not matter what I use James. I get the same error every

time: Incorrect subdomain. I want very much to test Opigno in the cloud and am seriously considering using a paid version for my company. But if I can't even create a subdomain to get started, this is not going to be very useful to me and I'll be forced to look elsewhere. Please help!!! Terrance

James Aparicio

Mon, 06/26/2017 - 09:14

Hi Terrance,

If you have that message "Incorrect subdomain" it is because you are adding invalid characters such as ",;." etc

Only 'a' to 'z', 'A' to 'Z', '0' to '9' and '-' are accepted.

Best regards

PersonalLMS

Mon, 06/26/2017 - 15:51

That's the problem, James. I'm not using special characters

I've tried "PersonalLMS", "myPersonalLMS", "myOwnLMS", "PersonalLMS2017" and other variations. It's not letting me create a subdomain. Terrance

James Aparicio

Mon, 06/26/2017 - 16:33

Hi Terrance,

Uppercase are not allowed.

Sorry for the misleading information.

Best regards

PersonalLMS

Mon, 06/26/2017 - 17:28

Thanks, James

That worked! Thanks! Terrance

Hi

My question is

So every subject would have a

my only concern is maintainability

Sorry for the late answer

Sorry for late response

hello to all of new in opigno

Hi! I&#039;m trying to create a new account

Hi PersonalLMS,

It does not matter what I use James. I get the same error every

Hi Terrance,

That&#039;s the problem, James. I&#039;m not using special characters

Hi Terrance,

Thanks, James

Hi! I'm trying to create a new account

That's the problem, James. I'm not using special characters