I'm not sure that such an idea actually requires a special activity, or a "report card" template with preset fields. It seems to me that the item of importance is the ability for the teacher to give each kid an immutable object which they may then view on their XO, and take home to show their parents. This object might be a .pdf, or it might be an image, or it might be something else, but the teacher could create such an object in Write, or in a spreadsheet activity, or in whatever suits their needs best.
It seems to me that the more interesting part of this problem is the distribution method. Unlike a homework assignment where the teacher could share an activity, or (in the future) send an object to everyone in the class group, there is need to distribute files individually to the kids by some unique identifier. Perhaps this is the place where an "Evaluate" activity does have it's place. If done well, a fresh instance of the activity could provide a way for a teacher to fill out evaluations (or import in their desired format!) and identify which kid each belongs to. Then, upon sharing that single evaluation activity with the class, each kid would receive *only* their own evaluation from the shared instance. That instance would then, every time they open it, simply be a viewer for that particular evaluation. This is a good example where the master-slave (usually discouraged in Sugar) would actually work. - Eben On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
