Hi Oisin, Bearing in mind that Peter suggested we move on, I will just add one more comment, to clarify my original post, if I may. I don't think any of us are arguing at this point.
My own solution did, in fact, have a second student password, as well as the teacher password. The teacher password allows editing and opening a stiudent deck. The student password simply allows opening the deck to use it for normal revision, complete with grading, but not content editing. If the deck lacks either of these passwords, the corresponding password-checking phase is skipped, and all editing permissions are normal. The protection would indeed be quite thin, as the file could be accessed outside the SRS program, but if the file were encryped, the bully could not tamper with it without destroying it. Most decryption algorithms fail catastrophically if a single character is altered. A catastrophic failure would be the functional equivalent of deleting the file. This is still better than having grades and content altered on the sly. The bully would not get much satisfaction from seeing the teacher reload his copy of the student's file - he would succeed in annoying the teacher, but the amusement value would be fairly minimal, compared to letting the victim soldier on with a deranged deck. I think this could be of value in some situations, and I think it was a reasonable enough feature request. Cheers, Craig. -- 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=.
