Amenity

Revision 4 as of 2006-05-27 22:43:14

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Summary

Amenity aims to provide an Activity Management System to be used (in conjunction with ["Pike"]) in classrooms and to be included in Edubuntu.

Rationale

Effective, easy-to-use educational software needs to provided to aid in the adoption of Edubuntu and OSS in the education world. Open source counterparts of commercial products are very important in this respect.

Use cases

  • Jane, an elementary school teacher, wants to create, manage, and monitor learning activities on her computer.

Scope

  • This will depend on the Pyro package, so it may need to be included in the main repository.

Design

Teacher Client

Includes the Activity Manager window and the Activity Sequence Editor window.

Activity Manager

Mockups to follow

  • New toolbar button opens the Activity Sequence Editor Window with a new Activity Sequence.

  • Edit toolbar button opens the Activity Sequence Editor Window with an existing Activity Sequence, chosen from a gtk File Chooser Dialog.

  • Open toolbar button creates a session with an Activity Sequence and a class chosen by the user and places it under inactive in the sessions tree.

  • Save toolbar button saves the state of the selected session.

  • Delete toolbar button deletes the selected session and it's saved state file.

  • The Session info tab displays information of the selected session.

  • The Monitor tab displays the activities and which students are currently taking part in each one.

  • The Students tab displays each student's progress through the sequence.

Activity Sequence Editor Window

Mockups to follow

Student Client

Mockups to follow

Implementation

Code

  • Technologies used
    • Python
    • PyGTK
    • Pyro

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion


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