User:Antonio/Summer 2010 HPL proposal

Revision as of 14:17, 30 May 2010

Core project: Kiosk and progress tracking for literacy lab

• A staff member signs up students electronically, capturing their personal information and library card ID.
  • The staff member selects which applications (Lexia, etc) will be available to the student.
  • Accounts for the learning applications (Lexia, etc.) still must be created manually.
• Students sign in at the lab computers with their username and password.
  • Only the applications designated as available to that particular student will be accessible.
  • Students must sign in to each application separately, as they do currently.
• Automatically, at a scheduled interval (probably nightly), the AppTrac system collects progress information about all students from the learning applications, and updates the AppTrac database with this information.
• At any time, staff members may access the following reports:
  • Student report: contains progress information and hours for all applications a student is assigned to.
  • (What other reports do we need?)
  • The reporting interface is password protected to ensure student privacy.
• There is an automated or mostly-automated procedure to update the HPL Access database with student information collected by the AppTrac system.

Enhancements

Enhancement A: Library card sign-in for literacy lab

• Enhancement for Project A.
• Students scan their library card at the front desk of the lab, and are directed to a free lab computer, where they are automatically signed on.
• We need to make sure this wouldn't conflict with a similar system in the library's other lab. (?)

Enhancement B: Single sign-on for literacy lab

• Enhancement for Project A.
• Students are automatically signed into some or all of the learning applications when they sign in, and don't have to re-enter their information
  • This involves extensive reverse-engineering of the applications, and may not be feasible for some (or any) of them. Exploratory testing is needed.

Enhancement C: Library card class sign-in

• Each student attending class must have a library card.
• There is a basic computer system at the entrance to each classroom.
  • Each computer must have a working internet connection and a bar code scanner.
• At the beginning of class, the instructor selects the class they are teaching, then presses a "Start class" button
• As students enter the classroom, they scan their library card. Their attendance is confirmed on the screen and recorded in a central database.
  • Should we have them sign out on their way out too?
• At the end of class, after all the students have left, the instructor presses a "Stop class" button.
  • (If making the professor wait for everyone to leave is undesirable, we could do something more flexible.)

Enhancement D: Modernization of current Access database system

• Create a system to replace the current Access-based database
• Not sure of scope; need to collect requirements