[K12OSN] Releasing Fl_TeacherTool 0.1

[Peter Hartmann]

Hey Robert,

>Discipline
> issues should be dealt with in a different way, maybe asking the
> student to sit in the hall for a while.

You're right.

I noticed something a little weird.  Maybe it's by design.  Whenever I
launch an app with TT the sound never works.  I've tried Gcompris,
Tuxtype, Tuxpaint and Childsplay.  Any ideas about that?


Thanks,
Peter

On 10/21/05, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/21/05, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > with you.  What if the lock feature worked like this:  the teacher
> > types a temporary password into the input field and presses the lock,
> > button.  Then the students regular password won't work to exit the
> > screensaver and only the temporary password will work.  Our computer
> > teacher has been using TT and had to log off  unruly students.  They
> > ended up just logging in again.
>
> I make the lock feature to simply get students attention. Like turning
> the lights out for a second.  Not really for discipline. The lock
> feature simply engages the students screensaver. Therefore, the
> students password is required to end it. In order to have the
> functionality you describe one would have to change the password of
> the user. It's possible, but not a good idea in my mind. Discipline
> issues should be dealt with in a different way, maybe asking the
> student to sit in the hall for a while.
>
>   Could their be a record feature
> > implemented in TT for vncreflector?  It looks as though there are a
> > couple different ways of recording vnc sessions at present.  Having
> > one integrated would just be ridiculous.
>
> A record feature would be interesting but it is well beyond my
> ability. In order to be worth while it would also have to record audio
> instructions and also be able to have playback. That would be another
> tool altogether. In order to be remotely possible one would have to
> use an already existing 3rd party recorder. I know Camtasia
> (http://camtasia.com) has such a commercial product for windows (it
> actually saves the sessions as flash content). I don't know of any
> Linux equivalent software. Greg Ercolano (an active member of the FLTK
> community) uses Camtasia to make FLTK programming tutorial videos.
> There is a link in my tutorial site
> http://fltk.org/links.php?V19
>
> Right now (after this strike) my 1st goal is to add multiple server
> support to Fl_TeacherTool. 2nd goal is to solve the problem of
> teachers logging out of vnc session window and hanging the reflector.
>
> --
> Robert Arkiletian
> C++ GUI tutorial http://fltk.org/links.php?V19
>
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