It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have 80 students share the same deck. The whole point of SRS is customization and long-term retention; how can that work if students stay 1 month and are stomping on each other's reviews? One person, one deck. But maybe you're not explaining your situation well.
The students do not share the exact same deck, but get their own copy of the same deck on shared computers at school Right now students can enter and change another students deck--why? Because they are students. I need to have control over the content. Otherwise some students can fail quizes because of missing vocabulary, or claim they failed because the class bully deleted cards. I need to stop any malicious tampering with decks. There needs to be some kind of protection. I also do not allow any Internet connection at school during class. > > > Also, I don't want someone form Flashcardexchange profiting from my work. > > You can host the cards on the Mnemosyne website if you prefer. > > > Please think about it. I am not interested in putting my name on the > cards. > > I would just like some encryption or password protection. > > > > Thanks > > Short of Mnemosyne as a web service, that cannot be done. Editing the > deck is the exact same thing as doing reviews. The one file > mnemosyne.mem holds the card and its metadata (like last grade, > hardness, etc.) You cannot give the user/Mnemosyne-program permission > to write/modify the mnemosyne.mem and also not give them permission to > write/modify it. > I do not want to give them permission to modify it. They have no need to modify the deck in any way. Also, I do not use the program to collect data on their score or grades. It is a tool to use to train them in vocabulary before in class quizes. > > It's the same contradiction which renders DRM in general a pipe dream. > Worse, any attempt to convert Mnemosyne to do some sort of ad hoc DRM > will badly impact usability and complexify the program, where it isn't > outright harmful. (A program which can lock data against students can > lock it against you. If you've put years of effort into your SRS, the > slightest risk of data loss should make you break out into a cold > sweat.) > I have no idea what DRM is. I am not afraid the program will lock against me. I have all my vocabulary saved as word, text, and then as decks. If the decks disappear, well, I have to reload the data on each computer and for each student, but my words are not gone. So, in layman's terms, it is impossible to protect my vocabulary from being ripped off the Internet, loaded on a computer, have some words altered, and resaved as the exact same deck? Thank you > > -- > gwern > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
