[kde-edu]: R: GSoC Plasma Educational Desktop Proposal v0.2

[karan pratap singh]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:32 PM, LucaTringali <TRINGALINVENT at libero.it>wrote:

> Well, doing exams is the only part Plasma Classroom is missing... I think
> that this software must be complete, so that every important thing (both
> teaching and examining) can be done directly from the desktop: I don't know
> how the situation is in other coutries, but in mine the 80% of teachers does
> not want to use a computer because they says "It's too difficult" (the funny
> thing is that many times the teacher asks help to the students to use some
> software).
>
The only way we can make them use computers, is to create something
> absolutely simple: having everything on the desktop is the first main step.
>
>

Exactly, teachers are bogged down by technicalities, that is why, I have
kept the PlasmED Remote Control Application's GUI as simple as possible in
the applicaiton's mockup. Even drag and drop can be used to move
applications into an activity and to edit an activity.


> Post Scriptum: I also think that actually KEduca is dead... I have not been
> able to find a KDE4 version. And it's stupid to do the entire course on
> computers, then do exams on paper...
>

I couldn't find anything on KEduca also, it was written somewhere that it
was not ported to KDE4, some people tried to bring it to KDE 4, but they
left it midway again, so currently it is abandoned.

>
>
> Luca Tringali
>
>
>  ----Messaggio originale----
> Da: aleixpol at gmail.com
> Data: 31/03/2011 23.41
> A: <kde-edu at kde.org>, "LucaTringali"<TRINGALINVENT at libero.it>
> Ogg: Re: [kde-edu]: R: GSoC Plasma Educational Desktop Proposal v0.2
>
> I think we shouldn't mix stuff that much.
> In my opinion plasma classroom has to be a shell, something that lets you
> select what do you want to work on. We have applications for exams.
>
> After thinking hard, I think it is best to be incremental in our approach.
First we must focus on providing an education conducive environment and then
maybe we can have pluggable applications for exams and other such
functionality.

So After this GSoC finishes, I will find time and write a separate
application in QML that will offer functionalities like:
1) Interactive Exam Generation using simple intuitive interface.
2) Assignment delivery to the entire lan, and collection of solutions from
the children's desktops.
3) Report Card Email facility to the parents etc..

>
> If an application for doing exams is needed, that should be a different
> GSoC.
>
> I think just an exams applicaiton will be too less work for a GSoC, I
needn't be right though :)

> My 2 cents :)
> aleix
> ----- Mensaje original -----
> > Couldn't be added a system for doing exams? Something like KEduca did,
> > if I  remember well... the teacher writes a series of questions with
> > multiple choices  and the students will do them. Then the system
> > immediately gives the results.
> >
> > Luca Tringali
> >
> > ----Messaggio originale----
> > Da: wizard.karan at gmail.com
> > Data: 31/03/2011 18.43
> > A: <plasma-devel at kde.org>, <kde-edu at kde.org>
> > Ogg: [kde-edu]: GSoC Plasma Educational Desktop Proposal v0.2
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The earlier email had a language error, so I am reposting.
> >
> > Please review my Google Summer of Code proposal for Plasma Educational
> > Desktop,
> > Please suggest how I can improve it further and if there are any errors
> > which  I can rectify...
> >
> > https://docs.google.com/document/pub?
> > id=1brvVSCrxkD78K3BkC1HM_bb_SCQGAqjj9FI5VJgRjL4
> >
> >
> > from
> > Karan Pratap Singh
> > IRC nick: kps_foo
> > Chandigarh, India
> >
> >
> >
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Karan Pratap Singh
IRC nick: kps_foo
Chandigarh, India
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