Re: Teachers

[Anatoly Volynets <av@total-knowledge.com>]

sergey@total-knowledge.com wrote:
> I'm opening a new thread for discussing Teachers functionality in the UU.
> We have some Teacher related stuff in the specs:
>
> http://www.total-knowledge.com/wiki/index.php/UU#Teacher
>
> but I think it's time to extend it.
>
> Here is the list of Teacher's activities that may be available in the UU:
>
>
> 1. Pass the comments to Student after he solves a problems and passes the
> solution to Teacher.

We need to juxtapose this  feature  with Communication Tools in the specs

>  Ability to see list of all outstanding problems for
> all Students
>   

We don't have any administrative functionality in specs for now. There 
is a question whether it makes sense to do it occasionally or  better  
leave an  administrative tools  (for teachers,  schools, probably other 
entities)  block for future uu versions? Or we can set up some generic 
interface for administrative features and leave it to  implement for 
community?

> 2. Add/Remove Students from his Course
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>   

See above + seems unacceptable as such.

> 3. Assign Course or any other UMO within a Course to a Student.
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>   

What that means? Recommendation or administration? If latter - see above.

> 4. Set grades(ratings) to a Student.
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>   

Same story. We don't have grades in specs.

> 5. Assign Students to certain difficulty levels within a Course.(Student
> will be able to see only UMOs of certain difficulty level)
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>   

All the same. It is all for student's discretion as of today.  We can 
probably think about some specific channels where students can find 
recommendations not from teacher only. I am not sure there is need for 
this. We can discuss it though.

> 6. Ability to change any UMO difficulty level within a Course(No new
> version should be created)
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>   

np

> 7. Sets the price for a Course
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>   

It is necessary feature. I believe we have it in specs.

> 8. Chooses his prefered language(s) for the Course from the list of
> available languages for this Course.
>
> 9. Ability to hide(not update) from Student certain UMOs in the Course
> that he teaches.
>
>   

Don't need it. Actually, there is one more issue here postponed for 
future versions: work flow. It relates to administration, but not entirely.

> Please add your own view on Teacher's functionality and give me your
> feedback on mine.
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Anatoly Volynets, Co-Founder
total-knowledge.com
culturedialogue.org