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[[Category:Feature|Classroom management]]

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[[Image:AnalyzeJournal.png|300px]] [[File:ScreenshotJournalShareActivity_client.png|300px]]

== Summary ==

This feature provides an infrastructure that addresses three aspects of classroom management:

This feature provides an infrastructure that addresses three aspects of classroom visualization and management:

# sharing content between students and teachers

# visualizing activity usage by students and teachers

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Above and beyond these components, we need to define a workflow by which they are used:

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;teacher server?:Journal Share makes use of a local webserver. Should that server be repurposed for background processing? Or should we utilize a school server?

;TBD: Is this an integrated Sugar feature or one that is managed at the Sugar activity level? (Easier to customize as the latter.)

;teacher buddy: [[Features/Teacher Buddy]] is a mechanism for identifying a teacher in the network neighborhood.

== Benefit to Sugar ==

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== 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 ~~[NEEDS TO BE ADDED]~~ on the number of times each instance has been launched. ~~By default [NEEDS TO BE ADDED],~~ Analyze Journal ~~will save~~ a datastore object associated with the activity that contains a json-encoded summary.

;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.

:* what additional data should be captured?

:* 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?

:* 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.

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:* 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. Or do we want it to be background?

;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.

;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 ==

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 [[Category:Feature|Classroom management]]
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+[[Image:AnalyzeJournal.png|300px]] [[File:ScreenshotJournalShareActivity_client.png|300px]]
 == Summary ==
-This feature provides an infrastructure that addresses three aspects of classroom management:
+This feature provides an infrastructure that addresses three aspects of classroom visualization and management:
 # sharing content between students and teachers
 # visualizing activity usage by students and teachers
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 Above and beyond these components, we need to define a workflow by which they are used:
-...
+;teacher server?:Journal Share makes use of a local webserver. Should that server be repurposed for background processing? Or should we utilize a school server?
+;TBD: Is this an integrated Sugar feature or one that is managed at the Sugar activity level? (Easier to customize as the latter.)
+;teacher buddy: [[Features/Teacher Buddy]] is a mechanism for identifying a teacher in the network neighborhood.
 == Benefit to Sugar ==
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 == 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 [NEEDS TO BE ADDED] on the number of times each instance has been launched. By default [NEEDS TO BE ADDED], Analyze Journal will save a datastore object associated with the activity that contains a json-encoded summary.
+;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.
-:* what additional data should be captured?
+:* 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?
 :* 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.
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 :* 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. Or do we want it to be background?
+;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.
+;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 ==