alice-teacher Repository of teaching/student material.

[Chris Swinney]

Indeed, I think that it is a good idea to have a repository area that is only open to teaching personnel. I realise that there is already a forum on the Alice.org site, however, the registration process is relatively open. In order to join this list you at least need to show that you are indeed a teacher of some description, and this information is vetted by a human. It would be a relatively simple task (should the forum software allow for it) to shift this process to a private forum within the main forums. 
 
One of the biggest issue we may have here is that to build a repository of information requires users to be able to upload there files to a storage area that could end up being quite large. Again, forums can cope with this, but it will depend on the forum software, the moderators and the servers storing the data.
 
I personally prefer forums to mailing lists as thread are easier to decipher, there is always a record available online and your email doesn't need to be clogged with posts that do not get edited, yet you can still subscribe to relevant topics of forums as you see fit. However, of course, this is my personal; choice. 
 
Chris
 

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If this were to be hosted on the Alice site as you suggest, I'd like to
recommend that it be locked down so that instructors could request
access but students would not.  It's all too easy for a student to
download complete solutions and just pass it in as their own!

I would be more than happy to share my own solutions to any of my
assignments that I use directly to other teachers, but I don't post them
online as I want to use them again!

Lisa

--
Dr. Lisa N. Michaud
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
http://www.merrimack.edu/lmichaud/


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