Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 13:11, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > I have scheduled two hackfest sessions at FUDCon. > > 1st session, Friday afternoon, from 2pm to 4pm.  The goal is to get people > together, discuss the goal (spec for sharing assessment data) and get a wide > range of ideas. I'm sorry t

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a > Sugar activity API? Couple of bits of experience from Moodle-land - It is probably worth matching SCORM's API when looking at "reporting back". There is also an IM

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-24 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a Sugar activity API? Teachers frequently talk about the need to assess the progress of their pupils.  In the context of an activity, how do teachers do that?  I don't think there's a

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-19 Thread Sean DALY
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Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jun 2009, at 15:10, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: >> 0. I'm guessing there will be some simple API, maybe >> "sugar.activity.assess". Or maybe it's actually part of datastore. > > The obvious thing, to me, is to store it in the Datastore object's > metadata propert

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-18 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > 0. I'm guessing there will be some simple API, maybe > "sugar.activity.assess". Or maybe it's actually part of datastore. The obvious thing, to me, is to store it in the Datastore object's metadata properties. Perhaps two integer fields, "score" and "maxscore". No

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 14:31, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > Hello folks. > > Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a > Sugar activity API? > > Teachers frequently talk about the need to assess the progress of their > pupils.  In the context of an activity, how do teac

[Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-18 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hello folks. Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a Sugar activity API? Teachers frequently talk about the need to assess the progress of their pupils. In the context of an activity, how do teachers do that? I don't think there's a clear mechanism, and I suspe