Features/Teacher Buddy

Summary

This feature provides a new field in the presence server buddy mechanism for identifying teachers.

Owner

• Name: Walter Bender
• Name: Gonzalo Odiard

• Email: <walter AT sugarlabs DOT org> <gonzalo AT sugarlabs DOT org>

Current status

• Targeted release: 1.0
• Last updated: 29 July 2013
• Percentage of completion: 50% (buddy.py is finished. we need to add a corresponding mechanism for visualizing teachers in the GUI)

Benefit to Sugar

By adding a mechanism for identifying a teacher, we can automate many of the Features/Classroom management features, such as handing in assignments, sharing stats, etc.

Scope

The feature requires:

• adding a new field to sugar3/presence/buddy.py
• a new icon for a teacher XO
• a test in jarabe/view/buddyicon.py for the teacher buddy

How To Test

Features/Teacher Buddy/Testing

User Experience

The exact mechanism for setting the teacher boolean is to be determined.

The basic change to the user experience is simply a different icon to represent a teacher in the UI. The auto-detection of teachers will be exploited in the Features/Classroom management systems.

Contingency Plan

No impact as this is a new feature.

Documentation

Some discussions with the design team regarding the placement of the buttons on the palettes.

Comments and Discussion

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