[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Response from school staff regarding progress tracking

[uwe]

I think Bruce meant to copy the whole list but sent it only to me. so
below you can find his input.


Bruce, I am a fan of modular concepts. meaning I like programs of tools
that do what they are good at and not more. so I think the
administration or analyses of the progress of a student should be a
seperate program. there can still be an interface to moodle if that is
deemed necessary, but mixing the both is in my eyes not good, because
maybe some end user doesn't know or want moodle.

of course avoiding duplication is good. but we talk about progress
control and not administration of students. for me there is a
difference. the progress control is more on the reporting and analyses
side whereas administation is more about users, names, addresses,
classes, schools, etc. but then maybe we could make one platform for
both. I don't know.

btw: I started a web-based admin tool for school classes for my wife -
she works as an italian teacher. so she as to administer class and
students (also over multiple years), but I stopped it because her
company indicated they they have no interest at the moment. 
I don't know where you are with your code, but if you want to have a
look or talk about the basic idea, feel free to ask. you can also have
the code if you want to.

rgds,

uwe


Am Montag, den 09.11.2009, 17:06 -0600 schrieb David Bruce:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:31 PM, uwe <uwe.geercken at web.de> wrote:
> > so do we have a team?
> >
> > Sarah does the web design
> > Matt does the coding
> > Uwe (me) does the database stuff
> > Jordan buys the beer
> >
> > just joking Jordan. I guess you would steer the requirements,
> > documentation and also testing as you have so many students and contacts
> > to teachers, right?
> 
> I've been following this peripherally - I just want to make sure I
> understand this correctly.  We are talking about making a web database
> application to track student progress in TuxType (and presumably
> TuxMath as well at some point).  TuxType would need to have some sort
> of login/ID system, and would need to be able to save the student data
> into the database.
> 
> Teachers would just interact with the database with a web browser, right?
> 
> This overlaps a lot with the aims of our tux4kids-admin GSoC project,
> which is (or will be) a Qt4 application rather than a web-based setup.
>  However, tux4kids-admin is still far from being releasable.
> 
> Also, in the interest of "not reinventing the wheel", could we get
> tuxtype to interact with something like Moodle?  I know almost nothing
> about Moodle other than that it is used quite widely to organize
> coursework.  I know teachers can post assignments for students, but
> I'm not sure if any data flows through Moodle in the other direction
> (from students to teachers).
> 
> Best,
> 
> David