[sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Report cards on XO

[Samuel Klein]

We should make sure that this works in the case of the 'xs' machine being a
disk attached to a teacher's xo, including the more limited times of
availability and bandwidth implied.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>wrote:

> All of this is already implemented in Moodle which will be installed in XS.
>
> Tony
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  > > I'm not sure that such an idea actually requires a special activity,
>  > > or a "report card" template with preset fields. It seems to me that
>  > > the item of importance is the ability for the teacher to give each kid
>  > > an immutable object which they may then view on their XO, and take
>  > > home to show their parents.  This object might be a .pdf, or it might
>  > > be an image, or it might be something else, but the teacher could
>  > > create such an object in Write, or in a spreadsheet activity, or in
>  > > whatever suits their needs best.
>  > >
>  > > It seems to me that the more interesting part of this problem is the
>  > > distribution method.  Unlike a homework assignment where the teacher
>  > > could share an activity, or (in the future) send an object to everyone
>  > > in the class group, there is need to distribute files individually to
>  > > the kids by some unique identifier.  Perhaps this is the place where
>  > > an "Evaluate" activity does have it's place.  If done well, a fresh
>  > > instance of the activity could provide a way for a teacher to fill out
>  > > evaluations (or import in their desired format!) and identify which
>  > > kid each belongs to.  Then, upon sharing that single evaluation
>  > > activity with the class, each kid would receive *only* their own
>  > > evaluation from the shared instance.  That instance would then, every
>  > > time they open it, simply be a viewer for that particular evaluation.
>  > > This is a good example where the master-slave (usually discouraged in
>  > > Sugar) would actually work.
>  > >
>  > > - Eben
>
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