Our Journey interactive student journey creator

Our Journey is an interactive online tool to chart the highs and lows of student journeys.

The aim is to produce a simple and accessible structure for students to represent the events that occurred in their study and their experience of these. It is being developed for use by all students and different institutions. The design is informed by research conducted to understand the challenges faced by disabled students at the Open University (see Coughlan & Lister, 2018 and Coughlan, Ullmann & Lister, 2017)).

• iet-ou.github.io/our-journey

A physical version of the tool has been developed by Tim Coughlan and Kate Lister of the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) and Glen Darby in LTI Translation, with HEIF funding.

This prototype online version is being developed in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET), at The Open University.

Author: Tim Coughlan, IET.

Install .. serve .. test .. fix

Use Node and npm to aid development:

rm .git/hooks/pre-commit ## Remove previous Git hook!

npm install
npm run build
npm start
npm test
npm run fix
npm run pa11y-ci

API

URL parameters

• . . . . ?demo=1 — Load an empty demonstration journey;
• . .?layout=scol — Display with a single-column layout;
• . . ?edit=float — Use a floating editor;
• . ?j=base64:... — Load a journey represented in the URL parameter as Base64-encoded JSON;

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Javascript

console.log('Inspect:', require('our-journey'));

require('our-journey').app.run({ assetUrl: '..', containerSelector: 'DOM selector' });

Example

Via unpkg — browse — production CDN:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/our-journey@^1/style/journeystyle.css" />

<div id="our-journey-tool">
  <noscript> Sorry! This tool requires Javascript. </noscript>
</div>

<script src="https://unpkg.com/our-journey@^1/dist/our-journey.js"></script>

<script>
  require('our-journey').app.run({
    assetUrl: 'https://unpkg.com/our-journey@^1/assets',
    containerSelector: '#our-journey-tool'
  });
</script>

Contributing

See the contributing guide.

License

Distributed under the [GNU General Public License, version 3 or later][gpl]. Copyright © 2018 The Open University. All rights reserved. (Institute of Educational Technology) [gpl]: https://github.com/IET-OU/our-journey/blob/master/LICENSE.txt "GNU General Public License, version 3 or later [GPL-3.0+]"

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