The announcement about new features in the upcoming MT3.1 release has gotten me excited about revising my courseware for this fall. In particular, the multi-blog option (“A plugin which allows you to include template content from one weblog in any other weblog in your Movable Type install”), the post scheduling, and the improved php/dynamic capability will all make it much easier to create a more robust courseware implementation that doesn’t require nearly so much by-hand duplication of content when creating multiple sections of a course, or new course instances from one quarter/semester to another.
I’m hoping to be able to make the changes during August, and get the new courseware instructions out soon after 3.1 is released on 8/31. For those of us who start teaching after Labor Day, that works…I know there are others for whom it will be too late for this semester. :(
BTW, if you haven’t checked recently, the new pricing for MT 3.x for educators is quite reasonable…I bought a $39.95 license that will cover all of my personal and class blogs.
I haven’t given up on the idea of a WordPress version, but I’m holding off until WordPress officially supports multiple blogs, since most of us teach more than one course.
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