EasyBlog as a Homework Platform
By Juan Carlos Zayas on Sunday, 18 May 2014
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Homework platform is something every school needs here in Chicago. I have integrated EasyBlog into our schools new website, ... and I was wondering how I could go about using your blogging framework to handle our homework. Since it works so well with posting information it should be easy for:
Teachers to:
1. Be listed by Departments
Showing Number of Classes which are using the framework.

2. Be grouped by Classes
Showing Class Name, Teacher Name, Number total Homework Assignments/ Number of New Homework Assignments.

Students to:
1. Personalized class lists
Create your own class list and our website will show you only your own classes instead of all the classes offered in our school.

2. Automated homework notifications for parents and students
Every day, the list of homework and assignments that are due within the next 3 days will be automatically emailed to you.

3. Online homework submissions (only for verified student accounts if teachers allow it)
Upload your homework and assignments through our website, along with messages for your teachers. Of course, your files will be available only to you and the teacher of your class.

I am going to launch this website in a few weeks. Other schools will be looking at this and I will be holding a Professional Development District wide to showcase what the capabilities are. I am sure this is a feature many will want to use. I am also available to donate time in its development. I hope someone else would be as well.
Hello Juan,

This is the URL that you need if you want to link to a particular category, index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=categories&layout=listings&id=XXX


Where XXX is the category id.
Mark
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014 02:32
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Hello Juan,

You can practically do anything with EasyBlog but ideally EasyBlog was developed to be a blogging extension and it is suited to be that way What you are looking for is something like a forum-ish tool and add your customizations on it.
Mark
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Sunday, 18 May 2014 15:55
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any suggestions on what I should be looking at?
Juan Carlos Zayas
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Sunday, 18 May 2014 22:46
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Hello Juan,

To be honest, I cannot really advise you on this as I am not really sure how you want to achieve this. You could use the categories in EasyDiscuss to create your "classes". As for the "automation part" i think you would want to customize the system instead
Mark
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Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:01
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I need to display to display a - subcategory - the author of that subcategory - and the total postings/new postings... how would I go about doing that? Ideally I would like that done in a list format.
Juan Carlos Zayas
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Sunday, 08 June 2014 05:03
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I can't really guide you through this because this is going to require quite an amount of time. I can however, let you know which file you should be modifying if you want to customize the layout. You can edit the theme files for the category. It is located in /components/com_easyblog/themes/default/blog.category.php
Mark
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Sunday, 08 June 2014 15:24
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So yeah I gave up on trying to recode easyblog to make it do what it really was not intended to do... I honestly did not want to damage your framework or code in the process. Instead I am using "Table JX" to create the lists that I wanted. The initial results are very good. In essence I have easyBlog for teachers posting homeworks to their categories(classes) which they only have access to and I want to use Table JX to list those homework assignments to students via a menu link dropdown. Table JX allows for the table specified to populate an article which is very nice. The other nice feature is that it allows for a row or element to be linkable as shown in the pic.

Hence my question....
I have the table Name in Database: "xxx_easyblog_category"
sorted by "parent_id"
WHERE `parent_id`=35
Showing the only the column: "title"

Resulting in:
the title of a subcategory to a blog posting.
I need to link that "title" with a custom id so that when clicked it would bring the user to all the blog listings of that subcategory

I have tried :
index.php?option=com_easyblog&????? <- dont know what else to add?
Juan Carlos Zayas
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014 02:08
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Cool will give it a try...
Juan Carlos Zayas
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014 02:37
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Thanks, Also, kindly please do not simply utilize the nudge, I am getting spammed by you clicking on the nudge button. You only posted the reply several minutes before pushing the nudge button.
Mark
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014 02:43
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Sorry about that will try to be more patient.
Juan Carlos Zayas
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Tuesday, 17 June 2014 11:20
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Thanks for understanding Juan Let's keep this forum in order Only if you have a post that isn't replied because it was missed out, use the nudge
Mark
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Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:05
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