On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Jeffrey Perry wrote:
It seems to me that Zope could use a few more toolkits.
As I've looked at Zope over the past few days and soliciting input from the list about uses for Zope in a school, I'm convinced that some sort of "school" product would be great. It may be that some of it is already there in other products, but what I would want is (and I'm sure to expose my naivete with respect to Zope programming here): * Instant, basic Web pages for teachers who would like to make their curricular material available for download. * A "what we did in class today" page for students who miss a day. Teachers would add each day's class activities through a simple Web form. * A simple way for student groups to share documents and collaborate on various types of projects. * A calendar showing due dates, upcoming events in the course, etc. * A discussion system for course topics. And the holy grail (as far as I'm concerned)... * An online electronic gradebook where teachers could enter grades, students could view (but not edit :-) their grades, parents could request electronic updates, etc. This would be AWESOME!! BTW, let me plug another group here. I've been involved with the education wing of the Simple End-User Linux (SEUL) group. We've got an active listserv discussing the use of Linux in educational settings. The homepage is at http://www.seul.org/edu/ Of particular interest is Bruno Vernier's work on EDUML, a subset of XML for working with data of interest to educational institutions. You'll see a link to it on the SEUL-EDU homepage. A connection between a Zope online gradebook and Bruno's EDUML would be a natural. Later, Tim -- Timothy Wilson | "The faster you | Check out: Henry Sibley H.S. | go, the shorter | http://slashdot.org/ W. St. Paul, MN, USA | you are." | http://linux.com/ wilson@chem.umn.edu | -Einstein | http://www.mn-linux.org/