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Bring back the userLevel keyword for educators/students
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:49 pm
by OpenXTalkPaul
Bring back the userLevel keyword for Educators.
This is a feature HyperCard had that locked users out from certain tools and features, it had 1 - 5 level property, 1 being a browse/player only mode, and 5 being full access to everything HC could do.
I imagine this would be very useful for someone teaching young kids, 3 to 13 yrs old age groups I guess.
This could be made into something of a learning game, where once the student completes a certain coding challenge they unlock new features (just like video games do). This could be unlocked to full as needed by the teacher via password in the HomeStack/Start Center or maybe in the preferences window.
These things might require a separate special build of the IDE, not sure about that?
Re: Bring back the userLevel keyword for educators/students
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:04 am
by xAction
I think you should have a stack that toggles all the avilable UI elements from menus to toolbars, to opening various windows.
Then an educator can deploy the product of that stack to the user machines either manually or by running a maintenance script from within the preferences with a
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go stack url "location of the admin controlled preferences stack"
command at start up, this URL would be placed in a field of the preferences, and/or via a saved preferences stack mass deployed across the network.
On day 1 let the kids doodle with the paint tools, day 2 they type polygon names into an input field and produce the corresponding graphic, day 3 they make a mess with buttons, day 4 they learn scrollbars, etc, step by step the teacher/admin can turn on those tools and have premade scripts loaded via commands included with that main prefence stack to use in examples long before opening the script editor.
Re: Bring back the userLevel keyword for educators/students
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:55 am
by richmond62
This could be set in the preferences stack.
Re: Bring back the userLevel keyword for educators/students
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:17 pm
by OpenXTalkPaul
xAction wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:04 am
I think you should have a stack that toggles all the avilable UI elements from menus to toolbars, to opening various windows.
Then an educator can deploy the product of that stack to the user machines either manually or by running a maintenance script from within the preferences with a
Code: Select all
go stack url "location of the admin controlled preferences stack"
command at start up, this URL would be placed in a field of the preferences, and/or via a saved preferences stack mass deployed across the network.
On day 1 let the kids doodle with the paint tools, day 2 they type polygon names into an input field and produce the corresponding graphic, day 3 they make a mess with buttons, day 4 they learn scrollbars, etc, step by step the teacher/admin can turn on those tools and have premade scripts loaded via commands included with that main prefence stack to use in examples long before opening the script editor.
This is more along the lines that I was thinking about, a modular approach. I wouldn't want this in my own copy of the IDE, but I would want in my 12yrd old son's copy of the IDE.
Maybe this could be a plug-in rather than being integrated into the IDE / preferences
Ugh, more branding to remove!
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This reminds me of another subject I wanted to talk about, having a package-manager-like thing similar to what Linux package managers do (but without all of that compiling source and dependency-problems nonsense). If you've used Atom, the popular source code text editor, it has a package manager (which BTW actually has an LCS/LCB/revIgniter add-on!) of the sort I'm thinking about. But I'll make new topic for that idea.