[wp-edu] Paragraph level commenting?

[Eddie A Tejeda]

Hi Alex,

It'd give Digress.it another shot. It's improved considerable in the last
few releases. I am also working on a new version that comes with a variety
of themes and a lot more customizable.

--
Eddie A Tejeda
Creator of Digress.it

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Alex Halavais <alex at halavais.net> wrote:

> I've used both digress.it and CommentPress in courses. I'm
> experimenting with another structure (though it is in Drupal).
>
> digress.it was a mess, I'm afraid. I tried it once and it was a mess
> on the UI. On the second go-round it just slowed to a crawl as the
> total number of comments increased. It was fine on testing, it was
> only under the load of a course that it died. It may have done away
> with this issue, twice bitten is enough for me.
>
> I've used CommentPress for several semesters now, and convinced
> several others to do the same. Students love it, it's a great way to
> teach. I use threaded comments.
>
> The single biggest problem with CommentPress is that it's difficult
> for students to know when people have replied to them on a document,
> at least for the longish documents I use. You can set up email
> notifications (and I have) but this only tells  you that someone has
> commented on your page--not on what paragraph. That's not targeted
> enough. I haven't gotten around to writing a plugin that does
> "CommentPress notifications," but as I said, I'll probably go to a
> Drupal-based system (using a javascript annotation frameword:
> https://github.com/nickstenning/annotator) instead.
>
> The second issue is it's a pain to theme. But this doesn't
> particularly bother me.
>
> Best,
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Grogan, David <David.Grogan at tufts.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I see a number of plugins that supposedly give users the ability to
> provide paragraph level commenting on post/page content. Has anyone here
> installed a feature like this? If so, which plugin, pros/cons.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
> >
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