Export / Import of a Path

[rposborne]

Export a json representation of a Path and all it's children.

Original Request to Product
Paths, made up of lessons, and grouped in units are a large amount of structured data. This content tends to be authored in context of others with lots of navigation between lessons, and may already exist in another format. A static folder structure would allow use of git/github allowing collaboration between instructors to maintain, discuss and collaborate on content outside of the learn / online platform. A formal importer will embrace intercampus collaboration to produce better content, and allow offline authoring.

Implementation Thoughts

• Folder - (Path, folder name, is titleized and set to name + description)
  • Folder (Unit, same method as containing path)
    • lesson_name.md
      • Front Matter containing each field required for online
        • title: A cool thing
        • description: It’s actually ice cold
        • type: (assignment or lesson)
        • due_date: (Ideally using something like chronic to allow natural language as dates will be relative coming from a repo)
        • order: 1
      • Body of file is… the body

Thoughts
Adding a config.yml or config.json, file to each folder (path / unit) could allow for better importing of titles and descriptions.
This could be as simple as a a file upload of a zip folder, or something fancy like a github integration.
It could be trivial to allow an export / import and handle a round trip for a path.