[GCompris-devel] Division - new activity

[JAZEIX Johnny]

On 02/12/16 21:00, B.J. wrote:
> My vote for “yes”, thinking you’re completely right.  Another option 
> would be to bring back the separate config tool we had with the GTK 
> version, with which one could easily lock or allow specific 
> activities—this confines the focal skill set, but also allows 
> independent practice for menu navigation, which is a skill that some 
> students don’t have yet.  That way a learner walks through the 
> specific skills the group is currently working on while still using 
> the icons to navigate.  Even better: maybe an option for activities to 
> “open up” (allow access) after specific ones are completed?  Maybe too 
> many ideas at once for this stage of development though…
>
> —
> B.J.
>
> From: Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net 
> <mailto:bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net>>
> Date: Friday, February 12, 2016 at 1:31 PM
> To: <gcompris-devel at kde.org <mailto:gcompris-devel at kde.org>>
> Subject: Re: [GCompris-devel] Division - new activity
>
>
>
> Le 12/02/2016 13:12, Johnny Jazeix a écrit :
>>
>>         talked to allon on irc and he gave me some ideas:
>>
>>         - we should let the user decide how many children to split
>>         the candies to, or even how many candies to have in total
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure if it is a good idea to let the child decide by default 
>> how many candies/children. Can be interesting for classrooms, but I'm 
>> not sure it's a good idea for children at home, if they play alone?
>>
> We don't have it at the moment but we have to stay open to these kind 
> of requests. Teachers want to tune each activity to match the 
> difficulty level they have in the classroom. This is a valid request 
> and it goes in par with the administration module.
>
> The scenario is that the teacher configures all the GCompris to run an 
> activity at a given level or with a specific configuration. Going 
> further, we could let a teacher create a multi activity scenario in 
> which instead of having a menu the children is proposed a sequence of 
> activities (including specific level and config) to follow. I created 
> a task to track this need:
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T1596
>
> I am on the early thinking on this and maybe wrong, feel free to 
> discuss it.
>
> Bruno.
If I understand correctly, there are 2 things: having custom levels 
(let's say easily, some .js data files in some directory and a 
configuration button like in balancebox to use the default levels or the 
customs).
And the possibility to directly input in the activity the configuration 
we want (for this activity, let's say two text fields, to input the 
number of children and candies).

I agree that we should have the possibility to read custom datasets. But 
for the second point, as you say, it goes more on admin part than 
directly on the activity itself.
For the Gtk+ version, if I'm not wrong, the "text" activities had the 
possibilities to create datasets. Was there some rule to decide if it is 
directly on the activity or in configuration?

Johnny

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