From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: students, classes, assignments... Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:48:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150901010303.GA6643@bigblessing.localdomain> <20150901233400.GA1115@bigblessing.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56651) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWwEV-0002BR-QE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:49:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWwER-00008z-Ps for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:48:59 -0400 Received: from smtp.andrew.cmu.edu ([128.2.157.37]:42215) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWwER-00008R-Kt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:48:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <20150901233400.GA1115@bigblessing.localdomain> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: scrawler@gmail.com Cc: orgmode list scrawler@gmail.com writes: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 06:13:00AM -0400, John Kitchin wrote: >> It depends a lot on what you want to be able to do. Do you need reports >> of what is completed? aggregated grades, etc... >> >> Here is what I do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUCiF2MwP4 >> >> Here is a talk I gave last year on using it. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsSMs-4GlT8&list=FLQp2VLAOlvq142YN3JO3y8w > > Thanks for the links. Reports would be great, aggregated grades not so > much (at least not for the moment). A couple questions: are the buffer > settings (#+ASSIGNMENT, #+POINTS, #+DUEDATE, #+RUBRIC) of your own These are filetags I created for the application. They make it easy to pull data from the files. the function to get a filetag is here: https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/techela/techela-grade.el#L204 and to set a filetag is right above it. > creation? This is just the kind of thing I'm looking for, but on a > much less ambitious scale. This student took this test and earned this > score on this day. But is this student in this subject or that > subject? Which period? I was thinking about making a file per student, > puting the particulars in a properties drawer, and linking to an > assignments file. Pretty standard stuff, I think, but I'm working out > how to make it all happen. > > * Fred Flinstone > :PROPERTIES: > :Class: Into to Cave Painting > :Period: 2 > :Whatever: Blah blah blah > :END: > > ** Homework [ / ] > *** TODO [[path to assignment or description][This]] > *** TODO [[path to assignment or description][That]] > > ** Classwork > > ** Assessment > > ** Concerns > > I'm sorry I'm not being more clear--I'm feeling like an idiot at the > moment. I think I'll start with a file for each student like Fred's > and go from there. It is the only way to learn ;) -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu