2009/11/17 Samuel Morrison <[email protected]>: >> > I don't care about the students saving their work. I just don't want >> > them to >> > touch it for the next class. THey can spend a half an hour doing their >> > vocabulary. Afterthat they are finished. ... > I do not see a contradiction between using spaced repetition, which I want, > and preventing access to decks. You fail to explain how those two concepts > naturally exclude each other by their very nature. My failure to understand > has nothing to do with being obviously not technically inclined at all, as > you say.
I don't understand why you don't understand this. To actually use the spaced repetition features of Mnemosyne, or Anki, or Supermemo, or Pauker, or ANY SRS system, you must have WRITE ACCESS to the deck. The information about your individual progress with the cards is written to the deck every time you GRADE a card - otherwise how can it decide when to schedule the card for next review (i.e. "spaced" repetition). Simply using the deck to study requires access to the deck. There is your contradiction. If the students can't write to the deck, then Mnemosyne can't do the ONE thing it was meant to do. > > Do me a favour--don't respond. I will uninstall this program and I will > switch to Anki. Problem solved. Anki will NOT solve your problem, no matter how much you complain about this 'simple' feature on the Anki mailing list. What you want is basically a simple webpage of read-only flashcards which students can view at any time but not change. This is very easy to do, unless you can't admit that's what you want and keep searching in vain for a self-contradicting solution of using SRS on non-writable data. SRS is for INDIVIDUAL study, which is why every student would need their own copy of the deck (ok, maybe you could split the deck into two files; the cards which are made read-only on some HTTP server and the schedule information for each student which is writable, but it doesn't matter because you don't have any system to provide that individual writable space for each student's schedule information; once again Mnemosyne/Anki/etc would be nothing more than a displayer of cards). -- 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=.
