Following with the "Printing support" thread, I found out that the "only" item that _needs_ printing in the conventional school setup is the report cards.
Since I militantly believe that XO-supported education we should not depend on printing at all if it were possible, I would want to submit a proposal to have grading information be accessible through the XO. While that is a simple part of student management software that doubtlessly will be part of the server, and thus accessible as a web page, still there would be a need for that information to be copied _into_ the XO for those kids who would have no access to the server from their homes. Thus, in its proposed incarnation, the "Work Report" activity would exist in the XO, be fed its information updates from the school server. The child and family would have that info as an available reminder of the teacher's feedback and child-specific suggestions. From a security standpoint the server notices via mac address the ID of the child's computer to upload info to. There would be an associated activity, "Teacher Reports", available for the teachers' XOs, where the teacher can comment on student work. Simple fields, "what is good about this work", "what needs improvement", "other suggestions". While I personally would avoid there be a "grade" field, I am aware I will be overruled on this, so I concede. In most cases anyways the report card follows a definite format and is already pre-printed to be filled out by hand. I am sure that improvements on this are possible, but since this is very much a nationally-defined format, it might not make sense to worry at this stage. Last time I was there in 2000, Uruguay High Schools printed reports on dot-matrix plain paper already. Yama _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
