I think this list is being somewhat unfair to the original poster. There is a big difference between the program having write-access to save learning/scheduling data, and the individual student having edit access to card content. A bully might think it was funny to make another student learn (wrongly) that schwarz = white, gelb = green, and so on. Or a bully might open up someone's flashcard set and muck up all the gradings. Having the files locked for editing and password- protected would prevent that.
Sure, the bully could simply delete the file, but that seems less tempting to me, when I try to think like a bully. Also, it is immediately noticeble. The student with the deleted file would know immediately that the file was gone, report it to the teacher, and the teacher could then reload his backup copy of the victim's flashcard set. If the teacher makes a backup of all students sets at the end of every day, saving it to a secure location such as the teacher's USB or teacher's secure file area, then the victim has at most lost one day's worth of revision data - not really wasted effort anyway. That is much better than having a few weeks go by learning that back=white. No major IT resources would be needed. The backup procedure could be done by a simple batch file. So, it could be useful in some contexts to turn off editing for all users. And the original poster is right in suggesting that this is simple to implement. On Nov 17, 9:17 pm, Oisín <[email protected]> wrote: > 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=.
