On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Samuel Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think you're missing the point. Whatever hacked-together >> password/encryption system one might add to Mnemosyne will offer >> nothing useful (except perhaps privacy, but that's not really a >> concern with flashcards) if students can simply delete other students' >> deck files or overwrite them with garbage outside of Mnemosyne. >> >> What could it possibly do to prevent users trashing the deck files? >> The simple fact is that if the students have write access to the >> filespace (which they must to use Mnemosyne anyway), then they can >> delete/trash anything - it is completely outside of Mnemosyne's power >> (and purpose) to prevent this. The only option is to provide them with >> a secure filespace as previously mentioned, be it through cheap USB >> disks or even _floppy_ disks - remember that each user's deck will >> probably be miniscule in size; probably far less than 100kb. > > > > why do students need write access? I am making up the cards, not the > students. I dont want them to touch the cards. I just want them to go > through the deck that I made, and then leave the deck alone when they are > done. It is simple. Am I asking for Rome?
In an SRS context, you are asking to have your cake and eat it too. There is no such thing as just going through the deck and also not touching the cards. The former implies the latter. That's how spaced repetition works: it remembers the last assessment and intelligently updates the card's metadata with the next date (to present the card on). >> Get one cheap USB floppy drive (literally $5-10 each on eBay including >> delivery) for each shared machine and one floppy disk for each student >> (you can still buy floppy disks in bulk very cheaply on eBay/etc). >> > 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 feel like there's a massive communication gap here. Do you, or do you not, need spaced repetition? It is increasingly sounding to me like you don't, you merely want students to review once or twice. In that case, Mnemosyne is the wrong software for you. The whole point of Mnemosyne is to be a SRS; otherwise, it does nothing interesting or useful. You're obviously not technically inclined at all, so you don't need nice TeX flashcards or the pictures or audio features. If you don't need an SRS, then you would be much better off looking for a dead-simple website which will offer free accounts and let students import a set of cards from various sources. I have heard flashcardexchange (which you've already mentioned before) does this, but it's a simple problem and so I am sure that there must be dozens of usable websites if you will but look. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
