Talk about what you want or don't want in the project here. 
When thinking about feedback, some questions that would be useful to answer would be things like: 
- What did you think the activity is used for? 
- What was easy to use? 
- What was hard to understand? 
- What would you like to see more of? 
- What felt useless or insignificant? 
Feel free to add anything else as well.

==Version 0.1==

==== Design & Prototype comments from [[User:Wade]] ====
: I'd like to suggest a name for this activity: "Pop Quiz".
- The 1st screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, an answer, as well as the maximum time the students will have to answer. Then they would click send/submit and the students would receive the question on their screens.
: This screen is very straightforward and nicely done. However, I think the format should be multiple choice. Text answer/response is way too slow and inaccurate. The teacher should be able to provide several answers to choose from (e.g. multiple choice). The question and answers should be able to be text, a picture (imported from the Journal) and/or sound. It should be possible to create a sequence of questions offline and save them to the Journal (with the pictures and sounds included in the Journal bundle).
- The 2nd screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teachers question is displayed as well as a timer and a space for an answer. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it.
: This is screen is also well done. In multiple choice, the user should just have to click on the right answer.
- The 3rd and 4th screens are both for the teacher. The 3rd screen is the general statistics of the class: Percent that got it correct, the number of students that selected each answer, the average time it took them to answer. The 4th screen is a representation of the class room organized by the name of the XO per student. The teacher can hover over the XO symbol to see the XO's name immediately, and if they continue to hover over it (like in the XO user interface) more information about that particular XO will be displayed such as what answer was selected, and the exact time it took them to answer.
: I feel that these screens need to be redesigned. First, eliminate the third screen - this information could be a small box at the bottom of the fourth screen. On the fourth screen, the XO images hide critical information. You should display a grid with the XO's name and answer, highlighted based on whether the answer was correct or incorrect. There should be no clicking or hovering required by the teacher.
: Finally, there should be a button for the teacher to "end" the quiz. This will show the teacher final percentages for each student and the class as a whole, and will show each student their complete list of right and wrong answers and percent right.

If you need help figuring out how to code this activity in Python, let me know!

Best,
[[User:Wade|Wade]] 17:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

==== Why FLash? ====

Is there any advantage of developing this activity in Flash instead of as a native Sugar app in Python? The disadvantages of course are (1) that it requires loading Flash (or Gnash) which is not easy on the systems currently in the field (less of an issue in 0.86+) and (2) Flash is difficult if not impossible to localize. --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 17:39, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have been more clear about this. I plan to eventually have it coded in Python, but I don't know any and in the course of a couple weeks, felt that I was unable to learn enough to code this project in Python. Instead, this is just a prototype that I created to get across the general idea and feedback. It's in flash because flash is very graphically oriented and I can easily code in it. The final deployment will be in Python, or whatever else is easily supported by the XO that the end developer chooses to code in --[[User:acj3840|Alex]]

==== Student create the questions ====

Could we have a mode where students could create the questions. A scenario might be that each student creates one math word problem and the class does all of them. For this mode we might want just the teacher to be able to see individual answers.

Making questions takes the teachers time and deprives the student of a learning experience of creating.

The problem is what if the students question or answer is wrong?

--For now I think I would like to keep most of the work on the teacher because they would also have more control over how and when the activity is used. Yes, later on it can be implemented to allow students to create questions, but for now I view the project as more of an easy aid for the teacher to quickly see their students' knowledge in certain areas. As for creating questions, yes this does take time, but eventually I'd like to work with the school server team to try and have them host 'pre-made' packets of 20 or 30 or 50 questions that teachers can download and use. The other thing is that these questions don't have to be unique to the activity, if it was a homework question that most students got wrong, put it up on the screen and quickly see what the response is, rather than check through all the homeworks to see who got it wrong. Also, in case it wasn't made clear (because I'm not very good at that yet), this is tailored towards elementary classes in developing countries. Regardless, thank you so much for your feedback and like I said earlier, it can all be implemented, I just might not be the one to do it. --[[User:acj3840|Alex]]

==Version 0.5==
====Class Feedback (In class testing)====
=====DaveSilver's help=====
- What did you think the activity is used for? 
It is used by teachers to ask questions to the class and get information on how they did. 
- What was easy to use? 
All of it 
- What was hard to understand? 
Nothing that I could find. 
- What would you like to see more of? 
I think that you should have a screen before the questions screen where the user can select what type of question they want to pose to the class. Ex: Multiple Choice, True/False, Open-Ended, Fill-In-The-Blank, etc. 
- What felt useless or insignificant? 
Nothing really felt useless except the class statistics but since that feature isn't ACTUALLY implemented right now that makes sense. 

===== Preston's Help =====
- The activity is used for teachers to track their students progress through a certain subject matter.
- It was easy to create a question and answer it.
- The interface was simple and easily understood.
- I think that there should be an option to add in more and different type of questions along with a go back button at the end.

==Contact==

If you need any help contact/email [[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] email: acj3840@rit.edu 
IRC: Boe08 
^^frequently on #sugar

2009-10-27T17:16:18Z

Acj3840: /* Contacts */

==Group Members==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]]

==Project Description==
My goal for this project is to create and distribute a prototype for a project idea that I have. I'm hoping to get feedback and functionality requests in regards to the prototype. In the end, I hope to create a final design document that will be able to be used along with my prototype to create a useful teacher tool that will assist teachers in understanding more about their students knowledge.

==Future goals==
Eventually, this project is going to be a program for the teacher to use to test students on their knowledge of math. The results will then be displayed to the teacher. The results will include things like % of users that answered the question correctly. A graphical display of what all of the submitted answers were and how many of each student picked that answer. The average time of student answers. And finally, a graphical display of all the students in the activity that when hovering over any particular student, will show the individual statistics about the student. This will help the teacher learn quickly what the weak points of the class as a whole are, as well as each individual student. With this knowledge the teacher easily determine what topics require more time for the students to learn. Teachers will be able to run the activity and students will be able to join. Hopefully we'll figure a way to efficiently connect somewhere between 10-15 students to each teacher. Also, currently the project will call for the teacher to input the question, answer, and amount of time to be given to the students to answer. Ideally the [[School Server/RIT|schoolserver.rit.edu]] will be able to host 'packets' of pre-made questions that the teacher can download and use.

==Project Files/Git==
Git probably will not be put up until someone else starts writing python code 
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype.swf Flash Prototype] 
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here]

==Prototype Notes==
A few things about my prototype. The final program will be in Python, the prototype is in flash because I know Actionscript and am able to quickly make a prototype with it. It's designed to get across the ideas of possible functionality, not actually be a fully working completely accurate prototype. I've hard coded a lot of stuff which won't be in the actual program. Please evaluated it based on what it implies it would/could do, rather than what it actually does (example: numbers for percentage are wrong, but implies that they would be displayed and displayed correctly). Things to note about it are as follows: 
- The 1st screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, an answer, as well as the maximum time the students will have to answer. Then they would click send/submit and the students would receive the question on their screens. 
- The 2nd screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teachers question is displayed as well as a timer and a space for an answer. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. 
- The 3rd and 4th screens are both for the teacher. The 3rd screen is the general statistics of the class: Percent that got it correct, the number of students that selected each answer, the average time it took them to answer. The 4th screen is a representation of the class room organized by the name of the XO per student. The teacher can hover over the XO symbol to see the XO's name immediately, and if they continue to hover over it (like in the XO user interface) more information about that particular XO will be displayed such as what answer was selected, and the exact time it took them to answer. 

==Milestones==
1) Design Doc(done)
Need
- Design GUI interface and layout
- Finalize remaining milestones
Want
- Learn Python(not done at all)
2) GUI Layout(done)
Need
- Finalize GUI design and layout
- Get screen shots of GUI design and layout onto the wiki(linking directly to the flash)
Want
- Learn more Python(not done at all)
- Get GUI design and layout out to community and get feed back right away on it(soon to be done)
3) Create GUI
Need
- Actually make GUI in python
- Finalize ideas about the rest of prototype (how much I can do with remaining time)
Want
- I/O with user (just input text and using it)
4) Create the rest of the prototype
Need
- Complete prototype
5) Distribute
Need
- Get it out to the community and get feedback
Want
- Find a developer or two interested in coding actual functionality
6) Finalize Design Doc
Need
- Using information/feedback from community, create a final design document and get it out to the community
Want
- Find a developer or two interested in coding actual functionality

==Recent Updates==
I'm doing the prototype in flash for ease of distribution and because I can get it out quicker. I'm literally a day or two away from being able to distribute it to the whole world and ask for feedback. Keep an eye on 'Project Files/Git' for a link to the flash application.

==Other notes==
The end goal for this project currently (for me) is to end up with a final design document for a project that the community has deemed useful and necessary. If you're interested in helping me, or working on the actual implementation after the design doc has been created, let me know. If you have any questions or concerns or requests please please PLEASE let me know so I can address them as quickly as possible.

==Contacts==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] email: acj3840@rit.edu 
IRC: Boe08

Teacher's Tools

2009-10-27T16:15:42Z

Acj3840: /* Prototype Notes */

==Group Members==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]]

==Project Description==
My goal for this project is to create and distribute a prototype for a project idea that I have. I'm hoping to get feedback and functionality requests in regards to the prototype. In the end, I hope to create a final design document that will be able to be used along with my prototype to create a useful teacher tool that will assist teachers in understanding more about their students knowledge.

==Future goals==
Eventually, this project is going to be a program for the teacher to use to test students on their knowledge of math. The results will then be displayed to the teacher. The results will include things like % of users that answered the question correctly. A graphical display of what all of the submitted answers were and how many of each student picked that answer. The average time of student answers. And finally, a graphical display of all the students in the activity that when hovering over any particular student, will show the individual statistics about the student. This will help the teacher learn quickly what the weak points of the class as a whole are, as well as each individual student. With this knowledge the teacher easily determine what topics require more time for the students to learn. Teachers will be able to run the activity and students will be able to join. Hopefully we'll figure a way to efficiently connect somewhere between 10-15 students to each teacher. Also, currently the project will call for the teacher to input the question, answer, and amount of time to be given to the students to answer. Ideally the [[School Server/RIT|schoolserver.rit.edu]] will be able to host 'packets' of pre-made questions that the teacher can download and use.

==Project Files/Git==
Git probably will not be put up until someone else starts writing python code 
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype.swf Flash Prototype] 
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here]

==Prototype Notes==
A few things about my prototype. The final program will be in Python, the prototype is in flash because I know Actionscript and am able to quickly make a prototype with it. It's designed to get across the ideas of possible functionality, not actually be a fully working completely accurate prototype. I've hard coded a lot of stuff which won't be in the actual program. Please evaluated it based on what it implies it would/could do, rather than what it actually does (example: numbers for percentage are wrong, but implies that they would be displayed and displayed correctly). Things to note about it are as follows: 
- The 1st screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, an answer, as well as the maximum time the students will have to answer. Then they would click send/submit and the students would receive the question on their screens. 
- The 2nd screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teachers question is displayed as well as a timer and a space for an answer. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. 
- The 3rd and 4th screens are both for the teacher. The 3rd screen is the general statistics of the class: Percent that got it correct, the number of students that selected each answer, the average time it took them to answer. The 4th screen is a representation of the class room organized by the name of the XO per student. The teacher can hover over the XO symbol to see the XO's name immediately, and if they continue to hover over it (like in the XO user interface) more information about that particular XO will be displayed such as what answer was selected, and the exact time it took them to answer. 

==Milestones==
1) Design Doc(done)
Need
- Design GUI interface and layout
- Finalize remaining milestones
Want
- Learn Python(not done at all)
2) GUI Layout(done)
Need
- Finalize GUI design and layout
- Get screen shots of GUI design and layout onto the wiki(linking directly to the flash)
Want
- Learn more Python(not done at all)
- Get GUI design and layout out to community and get feed back right away on it(soon to be done)
3) Create GUI
Need
- Actually make GUI in python
- Finalize ideas about the rest of prototype (how much I can do with remaining time)
Want
- I/O with user (just input text and using it)
4) Create the rest of the prototype
Need
- Complete prototype
5) Distribute
Need
- Get it out to the community and get feedback
Want
- Find a developer or two interested in coding actual functionality
6) Finalize Design Doc
Need
- Using information/feedback from community, create a final design document and get it out to the community
Want
- Find a developer or two interested in coding actual functionality

==Recent Updates==
I'm doing the prototype in flash for ease of distribution and because I can get it out quicker. I'm literally a day or two away from being able to distribute it to the whole world and ask for feedback. Keep an eye on 'Project Files/Git' for a link to the flash application.

==Other notes==
The end goal for this project currently (for me) is to end up with a final design document for a project that the community has deemed useful and necessary. If you're interested in helping me, or working on the actual implementation after the design doc has been created, let me know. If you have any questions or concerns or requests please please PLEASE let me know so I can address them as quickly as possible.

==Contacts==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] email: acj3840@rit.edu

Talk:Teacher's Tools

2009-10-26T18:58:23Z

Acj3840: /* Why FLash? */

Talk:Teacher's Tools

2009-10-26T18:57:42Z

Acj3840: Clarified the language used

Talk about what you want or don't want in the project here.

==Want to keep==

anything you like that's already in it and you want to keep, put it here

==Want to add==

insert what you want to be added here

==Want to remove==

if you don't want it in there tell me

==Usability==

talk about things like whether or not it will be useful as a whole here

==Misc==

anything that you want to say that doesn't fall into the above categories

==== Design & Prototype comments from [[User:Wade]] ====
: I'd like to suggest a name for this activity: "Pop Quiz".
- The 1st screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, an answer, as well as the maximum time the students will have to answer. Then they would click send/submit and the students would receive the question on their screens.
: This screen is very straightforward and nicely done. However, I think the format should be multiple choice. Text answer/response is way too slow and inaccurate. The teacher should be able to provide several answers to choose from (e.g. multiple choice). The question and answers should be able to be text, a picture (imported from the Journal) and/or sound. It should be possible to create a sequence of questions offline and save them to the Journal (with the pictures and sounds included in the Journal bundle).
- The 2nd screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teachers question is displayed as well as a timer and a space for an answer. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it.
: This is screen is also well done. In multiple choice, the user should just have to click on the right answer.
- The 3rd and 4th screens are both for the teacher. The 3rd screen is the general statistics of the class: Percent that got it correct, the number of students that selected each answer, the average time it took them to answer. The 4th screen is a representation of the class room organized by the name of the XO per student. The teacher can hover over the XO symbol to see the XO's name immediately, and if they continue to hover over it (like in the XO user interface) more information about that particular XO will be displayed such as what answer was selected, and the exact time it took them to answer.
: I feel that these screens need to be redesigned. First, eliminate the third screen - this information could be a small box at the bottom of the fourth screen. On the fourth screen, the XO images hide critical information. You should display a grid with the XO's name and answer, highlighted based on whether the answer was correct or incorrect. There should be no clicking or hovering required by the teacher.
: Finally, there should be a button for the teacher to "end" the quiz. This will show the teacher final percentages for each student and the class as a whole, and will show each student their complete list of right and wrong answers and percent right.

If you need help figuring out how to code this activity in Python, let me know!

Best,
[[User:Wade|Wade]] 17:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

==== Why FLash? ====

Is there any advantage of developing this activity in Flash instead of as a native Sugar app in Python? The disadvantages of course are (1) that it requires loading Flash (or Gnash) which is not easy on the systems currently in the field (less of an issue in 0.86+) and (2) Flash is difficult if not impossible to localize. --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 17:39, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have been more clear about this. I plan to eventually have it coded in Python, but I don't know any and in the course of a couple weeks, felt that I was unable to learn enough to code this project in Python. Instead, this is just a prototype that I created to get across the general idea and feedback. It's in flash because flash is very graphically oriented and I can easily code in it. The final deployment will be in Python, or whatever else is easily supported by the XO that the end developer chooses to code in

==Contact==

If you need any help contact/email [[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] email: acj3840@rit.edu

Teacher's Tools

2009-10-22T16:58:52Z

2009-10-08T17:51:33Z

Acj3840: /* Related Projects or Proposals */

{{TOCright}}
==Description==

A custom [http://moodle.org/ Moodle] [http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_module quiz module] which, in addition to the standard Moodle quiz features, analyzes the questions posed to the student for various qualities, such as compliance with [[Math4Team/Resources/Curriculum Chart | Curriculum Standards]].

The modified Moodle modules will run on a customized XS School Server operating system. Our goal is to allow results and / or grades, from student activities to be readily available to teachers. Based on their wants and needs, the teachers can then generate custom reports on a class or student and have the ability to determine what types of problems students are finding most difficult. In the end we imagine the XS environment running on an XO itself, allowing the teachers the same portability as the students.
==Collaboration==

To help in code contribution of this project, please visit us at our [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/teacher-reporting Gitorious project page.]

==Project Members==
* '''Project Manager:''' [[User:Wwdillingham | Wesley Dillingham]]
* '''Additional Group Members:''' [[User:jrgreen118 | Jeremiah Green]], [[User:FGrose | Fred Grose]]
 

==Goals==
*Expand upon the PHP of the Moodle Quiz Module to parse questions involving mathematical operations for characteristics contained in the [http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/current.html Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Mathematics.]
*Run Moodle with the modified quiz module on an XO running [[olpc:School_server | XS]], The '''X'''O school '''S'''erver.
*Have Moodle's latest stable release functioning on an XO running XS using the techniques outlined [[olpc:XS-on-XO | here]].
*Have PHP calls successfully querying mock student results from Moodle's PostgreSQL database running on XS.

==Data Flow Diagram==
[[image:Teacher_Reporting_Diagram.jpg|800px|]]
 

==Curriculum Requirements and Relevant Activities==

See [[Teacher Reporting/Math]].

=="How to Play/Use" for end user==

Our project is not intended for a direct use by students. Components (not yet developed) under the scope of our project exist on students computer's in so far as facilitating the data movement from the XO to the XS. Therefore, there are no directions for students on how to use our application, it will be entirely transparent to them. When a student begins an activity which is compatible with our application, it will automatically report information to the API. Our application will then read this information from the API and produce reports to the teacher. We envision this interface to be web based, allowing the teacher to select particular games, and as a subcategory, the particular curriculum requirements in which that game uses.

In order to run this script (parser.awk) issue the command, <pre>awk -f parser.awk students.dat</pre>

== Teachers guide ==

Student.dat file fields:<pre>
MAC-ADDRESS STUDENT_NAME OPERATION CORRECT
</pre>

Example:<pre>
0C7B6G0023BC Wesley 9/3+7 1
0C7B6G04DBBA Jeremiah 4+10/7 0
0C7B6GBA5D7D Billy 88-28*2 0
0C7B6G07E9HB Bob 4*5 1
</pre>

Ouput Example: <pre>Student Only + Contains + Only - Contains - Only * Contains * Only / Contains / Understands OoO?
wes 25 28 12 100 80 83 71 53 no
bob 80 77 0 66 100 100 33 60 yes
jeremiah 0 0 16 33 40 50 14 33 no
billy 66 70 33 53 50 37 100 80 yes
</pre>
''note: This output is not reflective of the student.dat example data above''

==XS SchoolServer on the XO==

A major barrier to achieving our goals is the idea that the School Server needs the ability to be versatile and portable. While some may have resources to dedicate substantial hardware to such a server, others may find themselves with nothing more than the XO laptops. From this stems the idea of running this server on one of the XO laptops via either a USB flash drive, SD card, or the internal NAND hard drive.

When fully installed on an SD card, the base operating system takes up about 1.6GB. There is a small amount of documentation available which is excellent and extremely helpful, but it can be difficult to use at times. Below is a quick break down of what we did and how to replicate it.

====How To:====

The most helpful website to read before beginning can be found here: [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-on-XO Laptop.org's XS-on-XO.]

=====Necessary hardware to replicate our setup includes:=====
*XO Laptop
*Linux Computer with SD Card Reader
**Can be physical machine or virtual. Also, some things can be done in Windows.
*SD card which is at least 4GB (We used an 8GB A-DATA SDHC)

=====Un-compress the image:=====
*Download the image file: [http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/OLPC-School-Server-0.5.2-dev01-i386.img.gz OLPC-School-Server-0.5.2-dev01-i386.img.gz]
*Un-compress the file
**In Windows, [http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm WinRAR] worked well.
**In Linux, this command works just as well<pre>gzip -d OLPC-School-Server-0.5.2-dev01-i386.img.gz</pre>

=====Setting Up the Environment=====
With the SD card connected to the Linux PC:
*Using a tool of your choice format the SD card to ext2 or ext3 (Linux 83).
**Gparted was excellent for formating the SD card to ext3, but fdisk would also work.
*Mark the partition with the boot flag
**This can be done using gparted, but in several instances errors were experienced. In lieu fdisk works great.
**To enter fdisk, use
<pre>
fdisk /dev/sd*1
or
fdisk /dev/mmcblk*p1
</pre>
*where * is the letter associated with the SD device and the 1 is the partition. Once in fdisk, use the help to determine the specific command to mark the boot flag. In most instances it will be "a".
*Next ensure the .img file, uncompressed previously, is accessible by the Linux machines.
*Use the command,
<pre>
dd if=OLPC-School-Server-0.5.2-dev01-i386.img of=/dev/sd*1
or
dd if=OLPC-School-Server-0.5.2-dev01-i386.img of=/dev/mmcblk*p1
</pre>
**This will take some time depending on the system performance.
*Use resize2fs to re-size the partition
<pre>
resize2fs -p /dev/sd*1
or
resize2fs -p /dev/mmcblk*p1
</pre>

=====Getting a Developer Key=====
*First the XO must have a [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys developer's key!!!]
*The easiest way to go about obtaining this is to boot into the XO's Sugar OS. Open the browse application. Near the bottom right of the home page, there will be a link for "Get a Developer Key".
**Click this link and on the next page click the "Submit Query." Go through this process again after 24 hours and the key should be available.
**Upon return follow the directions displayed to download the key.
*Reboot the XO and tap the "Esc" key to interrupt the booting procedure. At the ok prompt type: <pre>ok disable-security</pre>
**The machine will probably reboot. If so, tap the "Esc" key and type the above command again. It may reboot one final time.
**Upon this reboot tap the "Esc" key again and type the above command a final time. It should print out:
<pre>
ok disable-security
No wp tag
</pre>

=====Booting the XO from the SD=====
More than likely, this will not work right away, most implementations require some tweaking prior to properly booting.
*With the SD card inserted in the XO, turn the machine on and press the "Esc" key to interrupt start-up.
*At the prompt type:
<pre>
ok boot sd:\boot\olpc.fth
</pre>
*It should attempt the boot sequence, but more than likely will fail with a Kernel Panic!!!....error
*This is almost expected, but it's actually an important step. If you look further up on the screen, you should see an error in regards to mounting the file system.
*Around this area, you should also see a list of strange numbers (i.e. b102:) followed by devices (i.e. ramdisk...)
*Find the row for your SD card, it should be labeled something like:
<pre>
b301: mmcblk0p1
</pre>
*Remember the b301 number.
*Connect the SD card back to the Linux PC.
*Open the file /boot/olpc.fth
**Here's a quick resource on what this is [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SD_Boot_olpc.fth SD Booting].
*You'll see a line like this:
<pre>
" ro root=mmcblk0p1 rootdelay=1 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0
rootfstype=ext2 fbcon=font:SUN12x22" to boot-file
</pre>
*Change the "root=******" to be the variable recorded earlier.
*Save the changes and put the SD card back in the XO. Reboot the machine and at the prompt again type:
<pre>
ok boot sd:\boot\olpc.fth
</pre>

=====Post XS School Server Installation Configuration:=====
The following are commands that were run after installing XS on a Virtual Machine. Idealy, the newly configured SD card can now act as the operating system for the Virtual Machine allowing further versatility.

<pre>
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

edit /etc/inittab and change runlevel from 3 to 5 to startup in Gnome

yum install mysql-server php php-mysql php-mbstring php-gd php-xmlrpc php-imap cvs

service mysqld start
mysqladmin -u root password 'mySecurePassword'
mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE moodle CHARSET 'utf8';
mysql> exit;
chkconfig mysqld on
--starts sql server; adds root admin user; logs into server and creates DB;
--turns the service on on boot.

cd /var/www
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@eu.cvs.moodle.org:/cvsroot/moodle co -r MOODLE_19_STABLE moodle
--download and install/update with the latest version of moodle

mkdir moodledata
chown -R apache:apache moodle
chown -R apache:apache moodledata
--make directory in /var/www/ and change permissions.

edit the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
change DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" to DocumentRoot "/var/www/moodle"
change <Directory "/var/www/html"> to <Directory "/var/www/moodle">
then you must restart the apache server by issuing the command:
service httpd restart

</pre>

==Documentation & Resources==
===Related Projects or Proposals===
* [[Karma]]
* [[olpc:Customizing Moodle to include efficient Examination Processes]]
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Teacher%27s_Tools Teacher's Tools]

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2009-10-08T17:50:43Z

Acj3840: added my project with wes' permission

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2009-10-08T17:40:40Z

Acj3840: Re-designed page based on new project requirements

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2009-09-30T15:52:52Z

Acj3840: Added Milestones

==Group Members==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]]

==Project Description==
This project is going to be a program for the teacher to use to test students on their knowledge of math. The results will then be displayed to the teacher. The results will include things like % of users that answered the question correctly. A graphical display of what all of the submitted answers were and how many of each student picked that answer. The average time of student answers. And finally, a graphical display of all the students in the activity that when hovering over any particular student, will show the individual statistics about the student. This will help the teacher learn quickly what the weak points of the class as a whole are, as well as each individual student. With this knowledge the teacher easily determine what topics require more time for the students to learn.

==Future goals==
Eventually, this will all be run with just a mesh network, or series of mesh networks. Teachers will be able to run the activity and students will be able to join. Hopefully we'll figure a way to efficiently connect somewhere between 10-15 students to each teacher. Also, currently the project will call for the teacher to input the question, answer, and amount of time to be given to the students to answer. Ideally the [[School Server/RIT|schoolserver.rit.edu]] will be able to host 'packets' of pre-made questions that the teacher can download and use.

==Project Files/Git==
in a bit

==Milestones==
1) Design Doc
Need
- Map out architecture and design of activity
- Finalize GUI layouts and interface design
Want
- Find other members (mainly networking)
2) GUI Implementation
Need
- Teacher GUI implementation
- Navigation from screen to screen
Want
- Partial functionality of stats
3) Full functionality of stats
Need
- Full functionality of stats
- Both Teacher and Student GUI's fully implemented
- Smooth navigation from screen to screen
Want
- Ability to see in network that activity has started
- Stubbed code for accepting new connections
4) Not Networking
Need
- Everything working other than networking
Includes:
- Teacher and student GUI's flow from screen to screen intuitively
- Stats are gathered and displayed in a comfortable manner that is easy to understand
Want
- 1 Set of 50 questions to be able to be uploaded to [[School Server/RIT|schoolserver.rit.edu]]
- Stubbed code for possible download of questions from [[School Server/RIT|schoolserver.rit.edu]]
- Ability to accept someone joining the activity and at least recognize them if not interact with them
5) Mesh Networks
Need
- Ability to recognize other users in activity and interact with them (Teacher)
- Ability to send/receive information from other users in activity (Teacher)
Want
- Ability to download and use question packets from [[School Server/RIT|schoolserver.rit.edu]]
6) Server
Need
- Ability to upload and download packets of questions from [[School Server/RIT|schoolserver.rit.edu]] and use them easily
Want
- Any additional functionality to be added here

==Other notes==
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to building/maintaining networks, specially in python; so if anyone is and is interested in helping me out feel free to contact me.

==Contacts==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] email: acj3840@rit.edu

Teacher's Tools

2009-09-30T15:40:32Z

Acj3840: Made the page