[kde-edu]: Re: GSoC Proposal: Classroom mode

[todd rme]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Sebastian Stein <seb_stein at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I've seen the other Google Summer of Code proposal by Pranav Ravichandran
> and was wondering if the following idea might be worth investigating:
>
> Today, all apps are mostly edutainment, but all of them are missing some
> kind of classroom mode where a teacher can measure the results of his
> pupils. I think it would be great if we could come up with a central
> mechanism to turn all edu apps into classroom ready. It could be some kind
> of plugin, which teachers can enable. From a GSoC project, I would expect
> some kind of foundational work like providing a library and outlining
> guidelines how this lib must be integrated, etc.
>
> What's your opinion? Is that something useful or total nonsense?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sebastian

What about a general score-keeping mechanism?  This could be used for
both kde-games and kde-edu applications.  It could have various
back-ends that link into it, with the teacher mechanism being one (but
it could also be used for online leaderboards, for instance).

-Todd