Re: Monitoring learning

[Andu]

>Hi List Members,
>
> I'm developing some university courseware with MetaCard.  I'll be
>distributing it to my students, and the stacks will monitor their use of
>it (e.g., time spent per session, time spent per card, errors in
>answering questions and so on).  I want that usage information returned
>to me.  What's the best way to do it?
>
> Regards,
>
>  Greg

You can use either the smtp protocol so that you get the data as E-mail or
the http protocol to have it sent to a server from which you can retrieve
it. For http you can use "post  to url". Smtp works too but it
is in alpha stage.

Regards, Andu

Monitoring learning

[Gregory Lypny]

Hi List Members,

 I'm developing some university courseware with MetaCard.  I'll be 
distributing it to my students, and the stacks will monitor their use of 
it (e.g., time spent per session, time spent per card, errors in 
answering questions and so on).  I want that usage information returned 
to me.  What's the best way to do it?

 Regards,

  Greg



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Gregory Lypny
Associate Professor of Finance
Concordia University

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"Take chances, make mistakes!"
   - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus

One MetaCard Application modifying another

[Geoff Canyon]

If you wanted to give an end user the ability to hardwire some 
customer-specific information into an application, without the use of any 
external files, one way to do it would be to build the application just 
for them, after making the necessary changes to the source stacks. 
Another would be to write a second app to customize the first. Would this 
be an ugly task, opening the target application's file, going to a 
certain offset, and plugging some value in, or would it be possible to, 
for example, set a property on the stacks within a "compiled" MetaCard 
application, without getting into the low-level aspects?

Thanks in Advance

gc

Geoff Canyon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Applying QT sound files

[Tuviah M Snyder]

>I have a substantial language program which plays a text until the mouse
is
>released, moving a grc underscore line to show the word being spoken.
Each
>"word" is an individual sound file; mc simply plays them consecutively.
>This results in something of a bumpy ride.
>DLL solutions also considered,
>subject to funding.

I've already implemented text to speech in my Windows external using the
latest Microsoft speech technologies. It would work like text to speech
in Mac if the appropriate Microsoft installation files and voices are
installed. Should be posted shortly...


regards,
Tuviah Snyder
Diskotek
Custom Application Development & SuperCard/HyperCard Conversion at a low
price

Re: OT

[Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa]

"S. Duncan" wrote:
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> > Doesn't the MC web page contain a complete set of subscription
> > instructions someplace?
> 
> No it doesn't.

Wow, I could have sworn it did. As for "subsingle" -- well, something
must have changed, because I did a regular "subscribe" and don't ghet
digest.

Try sending the command

  SET METACARD DIGEST

or

  SET METACARD-L DIGEST

to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if that does the trick for
you, assuming you haven't yet.

--WthmO

Applying QT sound files

[Hugh Senior]

Do please contact me off-list if you wish. DLL solutions also considered,
subject to funding.

Situation:
I have a substantial language program which plays a text until the mouse is
released, moving a grc underscore line to show the word being spoken. Each
"word" is an individual sound file; mc simply plays them consecutively.
This results in something of a bumpy ride.

Idea:
Re-record the sound files as a single QT sound movie and time-index it for
each word, taking advantage of mc2.3 support for qt.

Problems:
- How to time-index the sound movie so it knows where to start playing
- How to trap when to move the underscore line to the next position
- Whether there are enough mc qt params planned to accommodate this

Hint:
- The "text" is, in fact, a graphic of Arabic text overlayed with
transparent buttons to trap word-located mouseclicks.


Has anyone worked on anything like this, or am I the only one nutty enough
to try?

/H

Hugh Senior
The Flexible Learning Company
Consultant Programming
Voice: +44 (0)1483.27 87 27
Web: www.flexibleLearning.com

Re: POP Server and MetaCard

[David Bovill]

Any chance of a peek/testing aforesaid?

--
>From: LiangTyan Fui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: POP Server and MetaCard
>Date: Thu, Oct 21, 1999, 3:19 am
>

>>> I need to process incoming email with my own scripts:  ideally with
>>> Metacard. Does anyone have any information on preferably free POP mail
>>> servers for Mac/UNIX which I could extend using MetaCard CGI's?
>>>
>>> Or is anyone planning on writing/getting involved in writing a basic POP
>>> server in MetaCard? Any information regarding these options would be much
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> I believe a MetaCard based email server is planned (using the new sockets
>> features in 2.3).
>
> Yes. We have completed the draft codes for POP3/SMTP server based on new
> MetaCard socket implementation. Should be ready by the time MetaCard 2.3
> final released.
>
> 

Re: OT

[S. Duncan]

Thanks,

> Doesn't the MC web page contain a complete set of subscription
> instructions someplace?

No it doesn't. I've searched the archives, I've polled the listserv for
help, all to no avail. I think I might be trapped in email hell. The only
info that I have found is to "subscribe" to the list as digest, or to
"subsingle".  Digest mode didn't work correctly when I tried it but
subsingle did. Hope Metacard is easier to use than the list.

Stu

Re: OT

[Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa]

"S. Duncan" wrote:

> How do I switch to digest mode from "subsingle"?

Doesn't the MC web page contain a complete set of subscription
instructions someplace?

--WthmO

   Bad news hits hard. Only The Indigestible punches back.
 http://www.nightwares.com/the-indigestible/

OT

[S. Duncan]

How do I switch to digest mode from "subsingle"?

Thanks