Toggle Meeting Mediator (Riff EDU)

[ebporter]

This story is about implementing the business logic for when to trigger the Meeting Mediator to be turned on or not for any given meeting happening through the NEXT AI course (via Riff EDU).

• How will we know when a meeting is a group meeting, rather than ad hoc? (channel context?)
• Do all four effects need to be structured, or are we assuming some sort of spread based simply on toggling 1/2 of each of the groups?

[ebporter]

Because of the particular way that the NEXT Canada course is set up using Open edX grouping mechanisms -- first half of the course sorts people into channels by what cohort they are in (in the product, we refer to these as Peer Learning Groups), and the second half of the course sorts people into channels by what team they are in (in the product, we refer to these as Capstone Teams) -- implementing the toggle of the meeting mediator from a study design point of view is tricky. We want to have people experience the meeting mediator for at least part of the course. So, we will have half the PLGs get the MM (and half not) and half the capstone teams get the MM (and half not), and all ad-hoc meetings will get the MM. Then we will be able to inspect 4 effects -- always got the MM, never got the MM, got the MM in the first half of the course, got the MM in the second half of the course. Crude drawing attached

[mlippert]

So the question then is "How do we know which half a given PLG or Capstone team belongs to?"

We could do it by naming convention, or by trying to maintain a configuration list somewhere. I can't think of other methods right now, but this has to be designed before anything else can be done.