[Tb] A Reader-Writer Bulletin Board Tb?

Hello.

I think the issue here is to get the data out of DISCUS in the first
place.

Can you import data from DISCUS directly? Is there a way for you to
extract that data into some sort of ASCII text?

Regards,
Oliver Wrede

Am 09.07.2004 um 21:28 schrieb Jerry Balzano:

> Hi all -
>
> I have a class of students, posting responses to readings online. The
> software (DISCUS) collects their postings on web pages (one page per
> reading) using tables, with the student's name in the first column of
> the table, and their writeup in the second column. Although I've done
> some programming in different languages, I've not yet used Tinderbox
> in other than "plain vanilla" style. However, it would be great if I
> could use Tb to grab and organize all this information for me, i.e.
> manage a monster document full of notes with "student" and "reading"
> attributes, and (e.g.) having found a match to an "student" attribute
> in column 1 of a page, then create a new note consisting of the
> contents of column 2. This looks like exactly the sort of thing
> Tinderbox is good at doing, right? And even -- to go a bit farther --
> setting up agents that would continually update the monster document
> as students posted new responses? I've just not done this before, and
> the first time is always the hardest. I'd be most grateful for any
> hand-holding anyone would be willing to do with me on this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Jerry Balzano
>
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> Teacher Education Program
> Dept of Music
> Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
> Cognitive Science Program
> UC San Diego
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Received on Sat Jul 17 19:53:58 2004