Difference between revisions of "Features/Teacher Buddy"

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== User Experience ==
 
== User Experience ==
  
;student visualizing Journal use: Simply by launching the Analyze Journal activity, a student can see a display of their activity usage, both based on instances and on the number of times each instance has been launched. Analyze Journal saves a datastore object associated with the activity that contains a json-encoded summary.
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The exact mechanism for setting the teacher boolean is to be determined.
  
:* what additional data should be captured? Is an accumulation of launch-times per activity adequate? Do we need to worry about change over time or just the current stats?
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The basic change to the user experience is simply a different icon to represent a teacher in the UI. The auto-detection of teachers will be exploited in the [[Features/Classroom Management]] systems.
:* is it important that this be available as a background task as well? If so, when and how often?
 
:* or could launching it while the teacher is running Journal Share (or some equivalent) be used as an opportunity for a background upload?
 
 
 
;uploading student Journal use to the teacher's laptop: Once the aforementioned modifications to Analyze Journal are made, the Journal Share mechanism could be used directly to upload a student's activity usage to the teacher.
 
 
 
:* is this something that is better done as a background task? If so, when and how often?
 
 
 
;visualizing classroom statistics: A few different ways in which this could happen. A new activity [NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN], similar to Analyze Journal, could be written to aggregate the stats uploaded by the students into one unified visualization. Or the classroom data could be sent out to a webservice [NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN] that provides cumulative statistics.
 
 
 
:* is this something that is better done as a background task? If so, when and how often?
 
 
 
;setting the favorites view on a classroom full of laptops: Might be worthwhile doing from Journal Share [NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN]. Or do we want it to be background? Best if used with multi-homeview patch [https://github.com/walterbender/sugar/commit/2ffa1cf6742bdb6b70c470d21969b4f45568038e 5].
 
 
 
;distributing activities to a classroom full of laptops: Seems that adding this to Journal Share would be intuitive and logical [NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN].
 
 
 
;TBD: How do we identify the teacher laptop? Using the 'age' field?
 
 
 
;TBD: What are the privacy concerns?
 
 
 
;TBD: Is this always running? Or only running when the teacher is running Journal Share?
 
  
 
== Dependencies ==
 
== Dependencies ==

Revision as of 08:39, 29 July 2013


Summary

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

Owner

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

Current status

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

Detailed Description

Benefit to Sugar

Scope

The feature requires:

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

UI Design

How To Test

Features/Teacher Buddy/Testing

User Experience

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

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

Dependencies

Contingency Plan

No impact as this is a new feature.

Documentation

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

Release Notes

Comments and Discussion