Re: [seul-edu] Grade input software

[Ramin Miraftabi <ramin@cs.joensuu.fi>]

* Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY (bill@mail.tasis.ch) [991212]:%y33Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 08:39:02PM +0100]:
If applets are bad Oracle 8i will be even worse. And it costs too much!

What is the database? Because if it is something sane (that we could
find either PHP or Java access to) it woulnd't be hard to plug in the
stuff for  extracting all of the necessary info. Java applets suffer
the same problem as anything else that runs in a browser, it can't
access the local filesystem. (In fact it can, but you don't want to
teach your users how to do it - it's too large of an security risk.)

Spell-checking is the biggest problem in the whole thing. I just
cannot find a way that you could plug-in spell-checking availability
without using someone else's software, which either costs or doesn't
work at all. And if you think of leaving a networked environment,
you'll end up with a problem with disks anyway. It will therefore not
help you at all. 

I think that your problems are impossible to address in any easy way,
I'm sorry. Any solution wouldn't even be too cheap, since the amount
of work involved for something like what you are talking about is way
too large.

I do think that we should start considering some software that would
do this in an OS manner with PHP/Zope in the background and JavaScript
and the browser in the front-end (applets are unfortunately too
clunky). Bill could probably provide good info on features that would
be good to have. Supporting various curriculums and grading styles
will not be easy though, but it could just work...

More in another message...

ramin
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