This is one of the few times I've ever WANTED to donate...
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:02 am
I'm feeling a bit like a forum whore with all the posting in the last two days but...
I just completed a donation to the project. I rarely ever donate to projects. Usually when I do it's out of a feeling of guilt. Not this time.
I was excited to do it.
After just a few hours of tinkering I was able to make WonderCMS do everything I needed and nothing that I didn't. Both halves of that statement are equally important because I plan on using this software with roughly 100 ninth graders every semester. It had to be easy enough to explain in a 15 minute lecture (video will be posted online at some point) (I put my lectures on online and make them homework and then take what's usually homework and make it classwork). It had to be easy enough for 14 year olds to grasp. It also had to function such that 14 year olds couldn't screw it up. It had to have a tiny server load as I'm on a shared host. It had to have the ability for students to make pages. Those were all of my requirements. Anything other than that wasn't necessary and if something extra affected what was required that was reason enough for me to find something else.
WonderCMS fits the bill wonderfully. The great thing (from my viewpoint) is that it only does the things that I need.
As it stands right now, there's only one more thing I'd like to see. A simple wysiwyg editor. I think I can figure out how to work that in. If I can't I'm sure I can find someone on fiverr to do it for next to nothing.
Thank you so much for a great product.
Jonathan Jacks
Science Teacher
Moore High School
I just completed a donation to the project. I rarely ever donate to projects. Usually when I do it's out of a feeling of guilt. Not this time.
I was excited to do it.
After just a few hours of tinkering I was able to make WonderCMS do everything I needed and nothing that I didn't. Both halves of that statement are equally important because I plan on using this software with roughly 100 ninth graders every semester. It had to be easy enough to explain in a 15 minute lecture (video will be posted online at some point) (I put my lectures on online and make them homework and then take what's usually homework and make it classwork). It had to be easy enough for 14 year olds to grasp. It also had to function such that 14 year olds couldn't screw it up. It had to have a tiny server load as I'm on a shared host. It had to have the ability for students to make pages. Those were all of my requirements. Anything other than that wasn't necessary and if something extra affected what was required that was reason enough for me to find something else.
WonderCMS fits the bill wonderfully. The great thing (from my viewpoint) is that it only does the things that I need.
As it stands right now, there's only one more thing I'd like to see. A simple wysiwyg editor. I think I can figure out how to work that in. If I can't I'm sure I can find someone on fiverr to do it for next to nothing.
Thank you so much for a great product.
Jonathan Jacks
Science Teacher
Moore High School