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Post by dreamingfifi on Jan 7, 2015 20:58:38 GMT
For the books in the library, I think that there should be a tagging system, where any user could add tags to any text. So, say an 8th grade Spanish class is assigned a handful of texts. The teacher could tag them with "Mrs. Soandso's 3rd period Spanish Class", so they could search for that tag or be linked to that tag and get the list of assigned reading there, easily.
Also, some tags could be marked as "invisible", so the whole world doesn't need to know what Mrs. Soandso's Spanish class is assigned.
What do you think of this?
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Post by Auburn on Jan 9, 2015 5:33:41 GMT
Hum, I've been thinking about this. Yeah, if a teacher has multiple rosters, they'd need a way to sort out student access to certain posts they make. And I think this can be done using the Tags system in a specific way, without needing to make the software any heavier. My idea is to have the privacy permissions as follows: Public: Here the words in the entry, the entry's name and the author, all ping it in search and it appears in the "View All" and "Recent" pages. Also, if custom tags ( the tags you enter yourself in an entry) are added, those can pull up an entry too. Unlisted: Does not show up in "View All" page or "Recent" page. Words in the entry itself are not indexed, therefore won't pull it up via Search. However, an unlisted post can still be pulled up via custom tags. Private: Only creator can see it, and they must be logged in to do so. So for instance, if the teacher marks an entry as "unlisted" but also adds a custom tag to each of their post -- for example, for her Spanish Period 1 class -- she'd tag all posts as "spa01" (or something more cryptic if she wanted to be more secretive) then that entry will not show up if you search for a word that is *in* the post (due to: unlisted), but it *will* show up if you search for the custom tags. Nobody would accidentally search for "spa01" as a word, nor would it be a word found in a post. So in that sense there's a good amount of privacy through this approach. We just need to set the unlisted feature to allow for the custom tags to be an exception. On the student's side of things, if in the "Follow Tags" section they enter "spa01", then they'd get all the teacher's posts, so long as the teacher properly marks them that way. I think this is a good solution and pretty straightforward. A teacher can make 4 entries back to back for different classes, and all she has to remember to do is tag them properly and they'll go to the right students. In this way the "tag" acts as a sort of "password" for all the lessons. What do you think? Imo, allowing for the addition of tags everywhere might be a bit confusing and overdoing-it. I think it would suffice to have the author tag the post accordingly, and then have readers select which tags to follow or not. If this will be used in an organized setting like a school, then a teacher just needs to know to tag things properly. This both makes the tool less prone to be used haphazardly (re: harder to maintain) and makes it look more professional. If there's too many buttons and knobs, then people (especially older ones like teachers o.o) tend to get confused, from my experience.
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