Sugar Labs - User contributions [en]

User:Modell

2010-07-08T19:02:57Z

Modell: /* Who am I */

===Who am I===
Michael O'Dell 
5th Year Computer Science 
From Ithaca, NY

===Contact===
e-mail: michael.s.odell@gmail.com
irc: modell

===Languages Developed In===
Vb &.NET 
JAVA 
Objective C 
C++ 

===Languages Currently Learning===
AspectJ 
Python 

===Projects===
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Teacher%27s_Tools Teacher's Tools]

===Previous Experience===
Developing a vareity of JAVA applications using GUI's, networking etc... 
Developing iPhone Applications 
Vareity of personal projects

User:Modell

2010-07-08T19:02:43Z

Modell: /* Previous Experience */

Pop Quiz/Development

2010-07-08T18:59:28Z

Modell: /* To-Do */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

Home base for hackers and devs.

==Prototype==
If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact me feel free to send me an email at acj3840@rit.edu
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

===Notes===
A few things about my prototype. The final program will be in Python; the prototype is in flash because I know Actionscript and I'm 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 evaluate 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 first screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, input up to 4 answers, as well as select the correct answer. They would then click on answer to send the question out to the students. 
- The second screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teacher's question is displayed as well as a timer and all of the possible answers submitted by the teacher. It currently only supports 4 but I'd like to allow the teacher to determine how many possible choices there are. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. Currently I have the problem of the correct answer still being selected, I cannot figure out how to fix it in flash right now, but that won't be the case in the final version of the activity. 
- 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. 
Please see the related pictured below as well 

==To-Do==
Polish up the GUI for the Teacher and Student and test functionality

Integrate and test networking code and or look at other programs that use mesh networking and fit code to PopQuiz use.

Test all integrated code, track bugs

Begin user testing (need to find an environment, ping Math4)

Fix bugs and edit features if need be from results of testing.

Deploy

==Milestones==
<strike> 1) Learn Python/Get GroupMembers
Need
- Know python and have dev environment set up
- Get group members
</strike>

<strike>2) Create Student User Interface
Need
- Able to accept input from user
- Transition from screen to screen smoothly
- Gathers all of the desired information easily
</strike>

<strike>
3) Create Teacher User Interface
Need
- Able to accept input from user
- Transitions from screen to screen smoothly
- Stores all the information in a format easily sent over networks
- Able to display all of the class information regardless of number of students (up to 15)
</strike>

4) Get Networking working
Need
- Teacher is able to create and share activity
- Students are able to join activity
- Information is able to be passed from student XO to teacher XO

5) Test
Need
- Multiple tests in many different situations
- Feedback from community on usefulness and what else is desired
Date
- As long as there is support for the project

6) Add features
Need
- Features to be added will determine needs
Date
- Needs will determine dates

Pop Quiz/Development

2010-07-08T18:56:59Z

Modell: /* Milestones */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

Home base for hackers and devs.

==Prototype==
If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact me feel free to send me an email at acj3840@rit.edu
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

===Notes===
A few things about my prototype. The final program will be in Python; the prototype is in flash because I know Actionscript and I'm 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 evaluate 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 first screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, input up to 4 answers, as well as select the correct answer. They would then click on answer to send the question out to the students. 
- The second screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teacher's question is displayed as well as a timer and all of the possible answers submitted by the teacher. It currently only supports 4 but I'd like to allow the teacher to determine how many possible choices there are. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. Currently I have the problem of the correct answer still being selected, I cannot figure out how to fix it in flash right now, but that won't be the case in the final version of the activity. 
- 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. 
Please see the related pictured below as well 

==To-Do==
Rewrite front end for GTK and move away from Tk
*Paper prototyping and digitized version
*User testing of paper prototype

Testing of mesh networking back-end

Future:
Support many types of questions
Detailed results analysis
*"Build a quiz mode"
*Sending of a series of questions versus just individual questions

==Milestones==
<strike> 1) Learn Python/Get GroupMembers
Need
- Know python and have dev environment set up
- Get group members
</strike>

<strike>2) Create Student User Interface
Need
- Able to accept input from user
- Transition from screen to screen smoothly
- Gathers all of the desired information easily
</strike>

<strike>
3) Create Teacher User Interface
Need
- Able to accept input from user
- Transitions from screen to screen smoothly
- Stores all the information in a format easily sent over networks
- Able to display all of the class information regardless of number of students (up to 15)
</strike>

4) Get Networking working
Need
- Teacher is able to create and share activity
- Students are able to join activity
- Information is able to be passed from student XO to teacher XO

5) Test
Need
- Multiple tests in many different situations
- Feedback from community on usefulness and what else is desired
Date
- As long as there is support for the project

6) Add features
Need
- Features to be added will determine needs
Date
- Needs will determine dates

Pop Quiz

2010-07-08T18:54:21Z

Modell: /* Future goals */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
'''Active:''' 
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
 
'''Inactive:''' 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====7/08/2010====
*Successfully recreated GUI's from TK to GTK+
*GUI development is functional
*Beginning work on Mesh Networking

====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Flash Prototype==

If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact us feel free to contact any of the team members.
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

==Pictures/Concept Art==

'''Upadted screenshots coming soon... ''' 
 
====Early Mock-Ups====
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc.

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-07-08T18:52:12Z

Modell: /* Future goals */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
'''Active:''' 
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
 
'''Inactive:''' 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====7/08/2010====
*Successfully recreated GUI's from TK to GTK+
*GUI development is functional
*Beginning work on Mesh Networking

====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Flash Prototype==

If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact us feel free to contact any of the team members.
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

==Pictures/Concept Art==

'''Upadted screenshots coming soon... ''' 
 
====Early Mock-Ups====
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc.

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-07-08T18:51:02Z

Modell: /* Alternative Use */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
'''Active:''' 
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
 
'''Inactive:''' 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====7/08/2010====
*Successfully recreated GUI's from TK to GTK+
*GUI development is functional
*Beginning work on Mesh Networking

====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Flash Prototype==

If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact us feel free to contact any of the team members.
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

==Pictures/Concept Art==

'''Upadted screenshots coming soon... ''' 
 
====Early Mock-Ups====
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc.

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-07-08T18:50:08Z

Modell: /* Pictures/Concept Art */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
'''Active:''' 
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
 
'''Inactive:''' 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====7/08/2010====
*Successfully recreated GUI's from TK to GTK+
*GUI development is functional
*Beginning work on Mesh Networking

====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Flash Prototype==

If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact us feel free to contact any of the team members.
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

==Pictures/Concept Art==

'''Upadted screenshots coming soon... ''' 
 
====Early Mock-Ups====
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc. Other ideas?

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-07-08T18:48:48Z

Modell: /* 7/08/2010 */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
'''Active:''' 
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
 
'''Inactive:''' 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====7/08/2010====
*Successfully recreated GUI's from TK to GTK+
*GUI development is functional
*Beginning work on Mesh Networking

====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Flash Prototype==

If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact us feel free to contact any of the team members.
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

==Pictures/Concept Art==
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bml4633/olpc/student_client.png 
The current interface for students is minimal but functional.

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc. Other ideas?

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-07-08T18:47:51Z

Modell: /* Recent Updates */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
'''Active:''' 
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
 
'''Inactive:''' 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
===7/08/2010===
Successfully recreated GUI's from TK to GTK+
GUI development is functional
Beginning work on Mesh Networking

====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Flash Prototype==

If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact us feel free to contact any of the team members.
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

==Pictures/Concept Art==
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bml4633/olpc/student_client.png 
The current interface for students is minimal but functional.

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc. Other ideas?

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-07-08T18:46:39Z

Modell: /* Group Members */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
'''Active:''' 
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
 
'''Inactive:''' 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Flash Prototype==

If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact us feel free to contact any of the team members.
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

==Pictures/Concept Art==
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bml4633/olpc/student_client.png 
The current interface for students is minimal but functional.

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc. Other ideas?

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-03-18T17:15:03Z

Modell: /* Flash Prototype */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Flash Prototype==

If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact us feel free to contact any of the team members.
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

==Pictures/Concept Art==
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bml4633/olpc/student_client.png 
The current interface for students is minimal but functional.

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc. Other ideas?

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-03-18T17:13:00Z

Modell:

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Flash Prototype==

If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact us feel free to< contact any of the team members.
 
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

==Pictures/Concept Art==
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bml4633/olpc/student_client.png 
The current interface for students is minimal but functional.

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc. Other ideas?

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz/Development

2010-02-24T00:49:28Z

Modell: /* To-Do */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

Home base for hackers and devs.

==Prototype==
If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact me feel free to send me an email at acj3840@rit.edu
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

===Notes===
A few things about my prototype. The final program will be in Python; the prototype is in flash because I know Actionscript and I'm 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 evaluate 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 first screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, input up to 4 answers, as well as select the correct answer. They would then click on answer to send the question out to the students. 
- The second screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teacher's question is displayed as well as a timer and all of the possible answers submitted by the teacher. It currently only supports 4 but I'd like to allow the teacher to determine how many possible choices there are. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. Currently I have the problem of the correct answer still being selected, I cannot figure out how to fix it in flash right now, but that won't be the case in the final version of the activity. 
- 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. 
Please see the related pictured below as well 

==To-Do==
Rewrite front end for GTK and move away from Tk
*Paper prototyping and digitized version
*User testing of paper prototype

Testing of mesh networking back-end

Future:
Support many types of questions
Detailed results analysis
*"Build a quiz mode"
*Sending of a series of questions versus just individual questions

==Milestones==
<strike> 1) Learn Python/Get GroupMembers
Need
- Know python and have dev environment set up
- Get group members
Date
- To be done by end of RIT's winter break (1/4/2010)
</strike>

2) Create Student User Interface
Need
<strike>- Able to accept input from user </strike>
- Transition from screen to screen smoothly
<strike>- Gathers all of the desired information easily </strike>
Date
- Concurrent development with Teacher UI (2/14/10)

3) Create Teacher User Interface
Need
- Able to accept input from user
- Transitions from screen to screen smoothly
- Stores all the information in a format easily sent over networks
- Able to display all of the class information regardless of number of students (up to 15)
Date
- Concurrent development with Student UI (2/14/10)

4) Get Networking working
Need
- Teacher is able to create and share activity
- Students are able to join activity
- Information is able to be passed from student XO to teacher XO
Date
- To be as done as possible by end of class (Week of 2/14/2010)
5) Test
Need
- Multiple tests in many different situations
- Feedback from community on usefulness and what else is desired
Date
- As long as there is support for the project
6) Add features
Need
- Features to be added will determine needs
Date
- Needs will determine dates

Pop Quiz/Development

2010-02-24T00:48:15Z

Modell: /* To-Do */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

Home base for hackers and devs.

==Prototype==
If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact me feel free to send me an email at acj3840@rit.edu
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

===Notes===
A few things about my prototype. The final program will be in Python; the prototype is in flash because I know Actionscript and I'm 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 evaluate 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 first screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, input up to 4 answers, as well as select the correct answer. They would then click on answer to send the question out to the students. 
- The second screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teacher's question is displayed as well as a timer and all of the possible answers submitted by the teacher. It currently only supports 4 but I'd like to allow the teacher to determine how many possible choices there are. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. Currently I have the problem of the correct answer still being selected, I cannot figure out how to fix it in flash right now, but that won't be the case in the final version of the activity. 
- 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. 
Please see the related pictured below as well 

==To-Do==
Rewrite front end for GTK and move away from Tk
*Paper prototyping and digitized version
-*ser testing of paper prototype

Testing of mesh networking back-end

Future:
Support many types of questions
Detailed results analysis
*"Build a quiz mode"
*Sending of a series of questions versus just individual questions

==Milestones==
<strike> 1) Learn Python/Get GroupMembers
Need
- Know python and have dev environment set up
- Get group members
Date
- To be done by end of RIT's winter break (1/4/2010)
</strike>

2) Create Student User Interface
Need
<strike>- Able to accept input from user </strike>
- Transition from screen to screen smoothly
<strike>- Gathers all of the desired information easily </strike>
Date
- Concurrent development with Teacher UI (2/14/10)

3) Create Teacher User Interface
Need
- Able to accept input from user
- Transitions from screen to screen smoothly
- Stores all the information in a format easily sent over networks
- Able to display all of the class information regardless of number of students (up to 15)
Date
- Concurrent development with Student UI (2/14/10)

4) Get Networking working
Need
- Teacher is able to create and share activity
- Students are able to join activity
- Information is able to be passed from student XO to teacher XO
Date
- To be as done as possible by end of class (Week of 2/14/2010)
5) Test
Need
- Multiple tests in many different situations
- Feedback from community on usefulness and what else is desired
Date
- As long as there is support for the project
6) Add features
Need
- Features to be added will determine needs
Date
- Needs will determine dates

Pop Quiz

2010-02-24T00:47:31Z

Modell: added paper prototype section

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Paper Prototype==
Uploading soon...

==Pictures/Concept Art==
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bml4633/olpc/student_client.png 
The current interface for students is minimal but functional.

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc. Other ideas?

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-02-24T00:46:01Z

Modell: /* Recent Updates */

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

[[Image:Icon.svg]]

PopQuiz is a tool primarily for teachers, to allow informal testing of students in real-time. The teacher poses questions to students on-the-fly, students answer over the mesh, and results are immediately gathered and displayed to the teacher. The application might have several [[#Alternative Use|other uses]] but pop quizzes are the main focus.

{{TOCright}}

==Group Members==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] UI/Integration 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==Recent Updates==
====2/23/10====
Decided to switch our GUI from using Tk to GTK+ after some input from the community

====2/13/10====
We made some rapid progress in networking and packaging. Current action items:
*Work out remaining kinks
**SVG Icon isn't being picked up
**On starting activity PopQuiz appears to either freeze or take an unacceptably long time to load

====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Pictures/Concept Art==
http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bml4633/olpc/student_client.png 
The current interface for students is minimal but functional.

==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.

==Alternative Use==
PopQuiz as a program also lends itself to quick tallies of opinion where a show of hands is unclear (do we play duck-duck-goose or dodgeball?) fun, impromptu polls between students, guessing games, etc. Other ideas?

==Download==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channels: #popquiz, #sugar

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

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz/Development

2010-02-24T00:13:04Z

Modell: Added to-do to developers page

{{Pop_Quiz/Navigation}}

Home base for hackers and devs.

==Prototype==
If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact me feel free to send me an email at acj3840@rit.edu
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ here]

===Notes===
A few things about my prototype. The final program will be in Python; the prototype is in flash because I know Actionscript and I'm 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 evaluate 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 first screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, input up to 4 answers, as well as select the correct answer. They would then click on answer to send the question out to the students. 
- The second screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teacher's question is displayed as well as a timer and all of the possible answers submitted by the teacher. It currently only supports 4 but I'd like to allow the teacher to determine how many possible choices there are. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. Currently I have the problem of the correct answer still being selected, I cannot figure out how to fix it in flash right now, but that won't be the case in the final version of the activity. 
- 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. 
Please see the related pictured below as well 

==To-Do==
Rewrite front end for GTK and move away from Tk
-Paper prototyping and digitized version
-User testing of paper prototype

Testing of mesh networking back-end

Future:
Support many types of questions
Detailed results analysis
"Build a quiz mode"
-Sending of a series of questions versus just individual questions

==Milestones==
<strike> 1) Learn Python/Get GroupMembers
Need
- Know python and have dev environment set up
- Get group members
Date
- To be done by end of RIT's winter break (1/4/2010)
</strike>

2) Create Student User Interface
Need
<strike>- Able to accept input from user </strike>
- Transition from screen to screen smoothly
<strike>- Gathers all of the desired information easily </strike>
Date
- Concurrent development with Teacher UI (2/14/10)

3) Create Teacher User Interface
Need
- Able to accept input from user
- Transitions from screen to screen smoothly
- Stores all the information in a format easily sent over networks
- Able to display all of the class information regardless of number of students (up to 15)
Date
- Concurrent development with Student UI (2/14/10)

4) Get Networking working
Need
- Teacher is able to create and share activity
- Students are able to join activity
- Information is able to be passed from student XO to teacher XO
Date
- To be as done as possible by end of class (Week of 2/14/2010)
5) Test
Need
- Multiple tests in many different situations
- Feedback from community on usefulness and what else is desired
Date
- As long as there is support for the project
6) Add features
Need
- Features to be added will determine needs
Date
- Needs will determine dates

Pop Quiz

2010-02-04T02:55:42Z

Modell: /* Group Members */

==Group Members==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] User Interfaces 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] User Interfaces 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Networking

==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.

==For Teachers==
If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact me feel free to send me an email at acj3840@rit.edu

==Recent Updates==
====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Prototype/Project Files/Git==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf Latest Flash Prototype] 
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ 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 I'm 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 evaluate 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 first screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, input up to 4 answers, as well as select the correct answer. They would then click on answer to send the question out to the students. 
- The second screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teacher's question is displayed as well as a timer and all of the possible answers submitted by the teacher. It currently only supports 4 but I'd like to allow the teacher to determine how many possible choices there are. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. Currently I have the problem of the correct answer still being selected, I cannot figure out how to fix it in flash right now, but that won't be the case in the final version of the activity. 
- 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. 
Please see the related pictured below as well 

==Pictures/Concept Art==

http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
^^This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bml4633/olpc/student_client.png 
The current interface for students is minimal but functional.

==Milestones==
<strike> 1) Learn Python/Get GroupMembers
Need
- Know python and have dev environment set up
- Get group members
Date
- To be done by end of RIT's winter break (1/4/2010)
</strike>

2) Create Student User Interface
Need
<strike>- Able to accept input from user </strike>
- Transition from screen to screen smoothly
<strike>- Gathers all of the desired information easily </strike>
Date
- Concurrent development with Teacher UI (2/14/10)

3) Create Teacher User Interface
Need
- Able to accept input from user
- Transitions from screen to screen smoothly
- Stores all the information in a format easily sent over networks
- Able to display all of the class information regardless of number of students (up to 15)
Date
- Concurrent development with Student UI (2/14/10)

4) Get Networking working
Need
- Teacher is able to create and share activity
- Students are able to join activity
- Information is able to be passed from student XO to teacher XO
Date
- To be as done as possible by end of class (Week of 2/14/2010)
5) Test
Need
- Multiple tests in many different situations
- Feedback from community on usefulness and what else is desired
Date
- As long as there is support for the project
6) Add features
Need
- Features to be added will determine needs
Date
- Needs will determine dates

==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.

==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.

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channel: #popquiz

[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] email: acj3840@rit.edu 
IRC: Boe08 
^^frequently on #sugar

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Pop Quiz

2010-02-04T02:55:06Z

Modell:

==Group Members==
[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] Founder 
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] Teachers' client 
[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] Students' client 
[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] Network backend

==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.

==For Teachers==
If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact me feel free to send me an email at acj3840@rit.edu

==Recent Updates==
====1/27/10====
We solidified our goals and plans for this quarter. Within the next week, we plan to have a minimal but functional application.
*The student interface will just show an image while waiting for an update from the teacher.
*The teacher's interface will first be assumed to be used on the XO. It will immediately open the question-creation dialog, followed by a waiting screen similar to the students'. When all students have responded, text statistics will be shown.
*The network backend will be kept as modular as possible to interface with other tools in the future.
*Question: will this tool be used for actual testing, or less formal evaluation?

==Prototype/Project Files/Git==
Git Public clone URL: git://git.sugarlabs.org/popquiz/mainline.git 
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf Latest Flash Prototype] 
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Pop_Quiz here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ 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 I'm 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 evaluate 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 first screen is what the teacher would see, and have the opportunity to input a question, input up to 4 answers, as well as select the correct answer. They would then click on answer to send the question out to the students. 
- The second screen is what the student would see after the teacher submits a question. The teacher's question is displayed as well as a timer and all of the possible answers submitted by the teacher. It currently only supports 4 but I'd like to allow the teacher to determine how many possible choices there are. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. Currently I have the problem of the correct answer still being selected, I cannot figure out how to fix it in flash right now, but that won't be the case in the final version of the activity. 
- 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. 
Please see the related pictured below as well 

==Pictures/Concept Art==

http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
^^This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

 

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bml4633/olpc/student_client.png 
The current interface for students is minimal but functional.

==Milestones==
<strike> 1) Learn Python/Get GroupMembers
Need
- Know python and have dev environment set up
- Get group members
Date
- To be done by end of RIT's winter break (1/4/2010)
</strike>

2) Create Student User Interface
Need
<strike>- Able to accept input from user </strike>
- Transition from screen to screen smoothly
<strike>- Gathers all of the desired information easily </strike>
Date
- Concurrent development with Teacher UI (2/14/10)

3) Create Teacher User Interface
Need
- Able to accept input from user
- Transitions from screen to screen smoothly
- Stores all the information in a format easily sent over networks
- Able to display all of the class information regardless of number of students (up to 15)
Date
- Concurrent development with Student UI (2/14/10)

4) Get Networking working
Need
- Teacher is able to create and share activity
- Students are able to join activity
- Information is able to be passed from student XO to teacher XO
Date
- To be as done as possible by end of class (Week of 2/14/2010)
5) Test
Need
- Multiple tests in many different situations
- Feedback from community on usefulness and what else is desired
Date
- As long as there is support for the project
6) Add features
Need
- Features to be added will determine needs
Date
- Needs will determine dates

==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.

==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.

==Contacts==
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net 
IRC Channel: #popquiz

[[user:acj3840|Alex Jones]] email: acj3840@rit.edu 
IRC: Boe08 
^^frequently on #sugar

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

[[user:Cheezmeister|Brendan Luchen]] email: bml4633@rit.edu <br\>
IRC: Cheezmeister

[[user:bisserlis|Ben Isserlis]] E-mail: Google Mail account bisserlis.
IRC: bisserlis

Math4Team/RIT/Students

2009-12-16T22:28:49Z

Modell: /* Computer Science */

{{TOCright}}

==<big>Winter 2009</big>==

===Game Development & Design===

===Computer Science===
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] (4th Year)

===Information & Technology===

===New Media: Interactive Development===
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:MikeDeVine Mike DeVine] (3rd Year)

==<big>Fall 2009</big>==

===Game Development & Design===

[[User:prestonj| Preston Johnson]] (3rd Year)

[[User:esk7610| Eric Kenvin]] (3rd Year)

David Silverman (3rd Year)

[[User:SpenceThompson| Spence Thompson]] (4th Year)

[[User:Acj3840| Alex Jones]] (3rd Year)

[[User:KnightMearh| Jonathan Meschino]] (4th Year)

===Computer Science===
[[User:Jlew|Justin Lewis]] (4th Year)

===Information Technology===

[[User:Rohn|Rohn Huntone]] (4th year)

===New Media: Interactive Development===
[[User:Fmarvez| Forrest Marvez]] (4th Year)

[[User:TS1593| Tom Sekovski]] (3rd year)

===Networking===

[[User:Fapryce| Fatima Pryce]] (2nd year)

===Information Security and Forensics===

[[User:rnolette| Ryan Nolette]] (4th year)

===Software Engineering===

Math4Team/RIT/Students

2009-12-16T22:28:22Z

Modell: /* Computer Science */

{{TOCright}}

==<big>Winter 2009</big>==

===Game Development & Design===

===Computer Science===
[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]]

===Information & Technology===

===New Media: Interactive Development===
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:MikeDeVine Mike DeVine] (3rd Year)

==<big>Fall 2009</big>==

===Game Development & Design===

[[User:prestonj| Preston Johnson]] (3rd Year)

[[User:esk7610| Eric Kenvin]] (3rd Year)

David Silverman (3rd Year)

[[User:SpenceThompson| Spence Thompson]] (4th Year)

[[User:Acj3840| Alex Jones]] (3rd Year)

[[User:KnightMearh| Jonathan Meschino]] (4th Year)

===Computer Science===
[[User:Jlew|Justin Lewis]] (4th Year)

===Information Technology===

[[User:Rohn|Rohn Huntone]] (4th year)

===New Media: Interactive Development===
[[User:Fmarvez| Forrest Marvez]] (4th Year)

[[User:TS1593| Tom Sekovski]] (3rd year)

===Networking===

[[User:Fapryce| Fatima Pryce]] (2nd year)

===Information Security and Forensics===

[[User:rnolette| Ryan Nolette]] (4th year)

===Software Engineering===

User:Modell

2009-12-16T22:22:57Z

Modell: revamped total about me

===Who am I===
Michael O'Dell 
4th Year Computer Science 
From Ithaca, NY

===Contact===
e-mail: michael.s.odell@gmail.com
irc: modell

===Languages Developed In===
Vb &.NET 
JAVA 
Objective C 
C++ 

===Languages Currently Learning===
AspectJ 
Python 

===Projects===
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Teacher%27s_Tools Teacher's Tools]

===Previous Experience===
Developing a vareity of JAVA applications using GUI's, networking etc... 
Developing iPhone Applications 
Vareity of personal projects 
 
Industry: 
Interned for Autodesk/Moldflow developing scripts for Moldflow Plastic Insights software. 
Interned for Sensis in Syracuse, NY developing scripts and small projects, as well as maintaining CAD software and drawing repositories and improving the internal drawing release processes.

Teacher's Tools

2009-12-16T04:10:48Z

Modell: /* 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.

==For Teachers==
If you are a teacher and want to evaluate my project, please either click
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf here] or look just below to run the prototype. It will launch in the same window, so when you're done hit the back button to get back to this page. Please read the prototype notes as it explains what each screen is for. Once you're done running it, please go [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] to discuss it (or once again look below). The latest version is where you would add your input. If you need any help or would just prefer to individually contact me feel free to send me an email at acj3840@rit.edu

==Prototype/Project Files/Git==
Git probably will not be put up until someone else starts writing python code 
[http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/PythonPrototype_v0.5.swf Latest Flash Prototype] 
Discuss the prototype [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools here] 
For a directory of the old versions look [http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/ 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, input up to 4 answers, as well as select the correct answer. They would then click on answer to send the question out to the students. 
- 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 all of the possible answers submitted by the teacher. It currently only supports 4 but I'd like to allow the teacher to determine how many possible choices there are. When the timer runs out, an answer is submitted regardless, otherwise the student can just input an answer and send/submit it. Currently I have the problem of the correct answer still being selected, I cannot figure out how to fix it in flash right now, but that won't be the case in the final version of the activity. 
- 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. 
Please see the related pictured below as well 

==Pictures/Concept Art==
I lack some art skills (sorry)

http://people.rit.edu/acj3840/ForDisplayOnly/Class%20Screen.png 
^^This is a concept for the final screen in the prototype. It will have the XO names right below the symbol, and the symbols will be highlighted red or green based on whether or not they answered correctly. Hovering over the XOs for a little bit will then show additional information like the last screen in the prototype. There should be back buttons added to go back to the previous screen as well as a 'ask another question' button and a 'end questioning' button.

==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 now working on getting to learn python so I can code this. Anybody interested in helping feel free to contact me.

==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 
^^frequently on #sugar

[[user:modell|Michael O'Dell]] email: michael.s.odell@gmail.com <br\>
IRC: modell <br\>

User:Modell

2009-12-03T23:27:08Z

Modell: Created page with 'Michael O'Dell 4th Year CS From Ithaca, NY Very interested in Open Source and OLPC'

Michael O'Dell
4th Year CS
From Ithaca, NY

Very interested in Open Source and OLPC