Deadlines (working backward)

Fresno and Alaska have bad networks.
Alaska starts sometime in February.
Fresno starts in Jan. 03
Fresno Notes:

• 6th grade 150 students per teacher 3 6th,
• computer labs -
• 2 sites: manchester and acomo
• carts: 15 computers in a cart.
• 2 computer rooms in acomo
• don't know about shared home folders.
• Brian is leaving on Jan. 1
• Going to use for the whole school year,
  • going to use it when they can.

Deployment

• Initial download should be faster
• Local Server support for user data
• CD or flash drive install.

Runtime User Interface Changes

• new image map, clickable udl tree, navigation UI
• coaches aren't used by students much

Runtime

• better tts voices
  • Windows XP voices.
• real people reading stories
• optional automatic level changing
• real time polling of student answers
• arbitrary branches/levels for content areas of activities, possibly in response to student's actions
• videos or other tools for technical help
• Flash support

Translation

• Spanish for Fresno
• need authoring tool support for translation
• need to check runtime support works in schools

Reporting

• pdf or print out of activity with student work
• grading of pre and post test
• concise report of work completed by student

Portal

• support for classes
• basic reports.
• support for teacher to select languague, font, color
• support for teacher to select level
• support for teacher to enable post test

Authoring

• more tools so authors can practically create and modify more of the activities
  • branching
  • data table connected to bar graph, and line graph
  • single value data collector connected to data table
  • translation authoring
  • rearranging of pages
• improve basic authoring tool
  • automatic saving
  • undo support
  • viewing changes
• improve parts of tool that already work:
  • wysiwyg text editing
  • scaffolded question authoring
• better support for collaborative authoring
  • integrated content management
  • support for shared objects
  • viewing changes
• make an authoring tool that teachers are comfortable using