;Background: Assessment is a idea ''du jour'' in education circles. Although Sugar promotes self-assessment through mechanisms such as the Sugar Journal and [[Activities/Portfolio]], we do provide some mechanisms for more traditional, automated assessment (See [[Platform_Team/sugar-stats]] and [[Activities/Analyze Journal]]).
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;Background: Some children have been using Sugar for almost five years, and yet we have little quantitative data on what impact it has had on their learning.
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;Task: Research what metadata about Sugar activity usage would be helpful to teachers for assessment purposes.
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;Task: Research how Sugar is used by students. What is being learned? Survey students and teachers. How well does it deliver its goals?