2009/11/15 Samuel Morrison <[email protected]>:
> 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.

Hi Samuel,

No offense intended, but I think the fundamental problem you need
solved is not within Mnemosyne's scope - it is in your school's
computer system where students share computers with no individual
logins or protected filespace.

The correct solution is for each user to have a personal login with
their own private and protected filespace. This is the responsibility
of an operating system really; not Mnemosyne or the other applications
students use.
If you don't have control over the issue of individual accounts, then
the next best thing is to provide some kind of individual filespace,
be it through some kind of network/internet host like Dropbox, or
setting up some ssh accounts somewhere and using Reddrive or
equivalent to mount users' filespace as a virtual disk, or simply
providing each student with their own USB key (of course, they could
conveniently lose this and say someone stole it, but there's only so
much you can do... you could enforce rules on how they take care of
their keys, maybe not leaving the school with them).

Hacking some kind of protection scheme into Mnemosyne is not the
appropriate way to go IMO.

Oisín

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