onsdag 17. mars 2004, 13:35, skrev Petter Reinholdtsen: > The problem is not the pupils, but their teachers. �If each teacher > should have access to the files for each class he teaches, he might > need to be a member of quite a lot of groups in larger schools.
This is exactly what the Learning Management System (LMS) should handle :-). A lot of schools will not pay for a LMS or maintain such a service. Then they probably want access to a class-directory with reading/writing rights. But i think more access than that will be difficult to follow and over-complex to maintain. The user-interface to the file-system is to complicated - where LMS is put together to handling that kind of complexity (work-flows, project-folder, deadlines etc. :-) Today a lot of teachers conected to a NT-file server have a own class directory with no restrictions. Every pupil and teachers can save or delete everybody else's files. One school that uses Skolelinux does not even have user accounts. They login as user 1-30. Thats it. They sometimes wonder where their files goes ;-), and want the Windows 95 single PC-functionality back. Just giving the school a system with handling users in a proper way is hard. When giving them classes, it's even harder. To give them 30-40 different groups, it's overkill in real life. Teachers have asked for is a common folder for their classes to efficient share files with pupils in their class. We should provide this. I can see that this functionaliy will make more demands in the future. "Ah, I can do it for one class, why not for every class", teachers will say. Yes, thats possible. The easy way is to make a account for every class the teacher teach, or just tell them that a LMS does a much better job because of funcitonality and the governmental plans for Digital Competence. If you give the teacher one class-directory with class-permissions for every class they are teaching, there is a limit at around 5-10 classes in a week. It's no more time left serve more people. A lot of the schools curriculum is not about computers either. That limits the need for a large bundle of group-memberships. A work-around could be that a teacher would be a member of their own class and have a new account for every course they teach. You could also give the teachers accounts for every class they teach. It's possible to give them identical password for every account. Then the teacher get the real responsibility for handeling a Learning Management System-issue at file and directory level. Thanks - Knut
