On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Samuel Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the response. > > Yes, I don't want students to change the cards. I have over 80 students per > month, every month, who also leave every month. That is about 1000 separate > decks.
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. > 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. 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.) -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
