Re: Teachers

["Alexey Parshin" <alexeyp@gmail.com>]

I have added study_course, study_course_acl, and study_course_payment to support our discussion results. 
However - I'm not really sure if the relation between topic (TLT) and study_course is right. Currently, top-level-topic owns course. The alternative is - course owns all the topics inside.
Also, I'm not sure yet how to control access to payments.

2006/12/14, sergey@total-knowledge.com < sergey@total-knowledge.com>:

>>
>>> 3. Assign Course or any other UMO within a Course to a Student.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What that means? Recommendation or administration? If latter - see
>> above.
> I'd like to know that too :)

For example, assign a Problem to a Student

>>
>>> 4. Set grades(ratings) to a Student.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Same story. We don't have grades in specs.
> We do have some ideas at least as far as grading problem solving goes.
> Most of it is automatic, but at least some is human-controlled. I don't
> care too much about grading abilities, but we'll need it eventually. We
> need better definition though. Or at least some definition, since there
> really isn't anything specific in the spec.
>>
>>> 5. Assign Students to certain difficulty levels within a
>>> Course.(Student
>>> will be able to see only UMOs of certain difficulty level)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> np
> No. Difficulty levels are author's responsibility.
>>
>>> 7. Sets the price for a Course
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It is necessary feature. I believe we have it in specs.
> Teacher or Author?

Teacher sets the price, students buy it. Author? I don't know how authors
make money, maybe teachers buy courses from authors then sell it to
students? No need to teach anything, just make a couple of transactions.

>>
>>> 8. Chooses his prefered language(s) for the Course from the list of
>>> available languages for this Course.
> Preferred for what? Expand on this please.

I mean his language(pl_preferred_language column in person_list table).
Course may have several languages available, Author selects the one he
speaks. You don't want, for example, students send an Author problems
solutions in language different from the one he speaks.

>>>
>>> 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.
>
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