Re: User roles and UI

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

Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> My original thinking was that a course has set of teachers associated
> with it, and all of them have access to relevant students' data, and
> so it is course Author's responsibility to chose people he trusts to be
> teachers of his course.
> Your proposal (at least the way I understand it) is somewhat more
> difficult to implement, but in many ways makes more sense.
> As far as I understand, you want to introduce a concept of "class".
> How about adding this to specs:
>
> - In order to study a course, students have to sign up to one of
> classes associated with said course.
>   

Or to study it on their own, directly.

> - Class is an object that connects course, teachers, and students.
> - Each course has a "default class", which has course authors set
> as its teachers.
>   

Author may not want to teach. Hence, default class will be for self-studies.

> - Any UU user can create a new class in any course.
>   

We need to think about many different situations. I can come up with
such ones: 1) Someone wants to teach on-line for money or other reasons.
One can  create  a class, but manual work restricts number of students
who can sign up. That means this Teacher needs to put forward number of
students he can handle; 2) UU must prevent people creating fake classes;
3) If someone comes over with his own class (say, 30 kids), one has to
have tool to create class, but prevent free signing up, that is we need
kind of public and private classes...

> - Class creator can grant other UU users rights to be a teacher in
> this particular class
> - Students are presented with a choice which class to sign up for
> - Teacher has tools that allow him to control who can sign up for his class
> (exception - anyone can sign up for default class)
>   

See above. I'm not sure about "control" thing as something general. What
if a student wants study with a teacher and cannot find one available?
Can we provide a tool set for such people--to create a class and then go
and shop for a Teacher?

> Additional features for closed server:
> Authors has tools to control who can create classes or be teachers for
> their course, and tools to charge money for this.
>
>   

Probably.

>> Regarding mentioned "results". I am still not sure I understand the
>> situation you described. Let's say results are fixed by uu and cannot be
>> humanly changed once they are submitted. The teacher can only evaluate
>> them, that's it. Does this make sense now?
>>   
>>     
> Teacher evaluates results. If you submit a solution, and I want to mess you
> up, I become teacher, and quickly go evaluate your problem, and say you
> got it all wrong, and give you zero rating.
>   

OK, we do not want this, so we do not provide free sign up for teaching
a class, which is already working.

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Anatoly Volynets, Co-Founder
total-knowledge.com
culturedialogue.org