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"Projectile Data Lab" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
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CODAP wrapper - Are we supporting multiple screens? #245

Closed matthew-blackman closed 3 months ago

matthew-blackman commented 5 months ago

If so, we will need to add a 'Screen Identifier' quantity to the list of available variables. Is this something we want to support, or would it make more sense to use "screens=?" when publishing a PDL + CODAP environment?

catherinecarter commented 5 months ago

Seems like most of the time users will be on one screen only while interacting with CODAP, except in one case, which might be important enough to consider.

In our standup today, 3/13, @matthew-blackman said that if a user wanted to have access to both types of launchers (Mystery and Custom) at the same time, they could use the Measures screen. The Measures screen, however, has features the other screens do not, specifically the values of the mean and standard deviation. If the screens were limited to exactly one at a time in CODAP, it wouldn't be possible for a teacher to have students explore the distributions of these launchers without having immediate access to these statistics.

It's true that CODAP can find these measures just as quickly as the sim does, so this may not be an issue, but I want to mention it in case this hasn't been thought of yet.

matthew-blackman commented 5 months ago

3/15 meeting with @joeyliu95511: Joey stated that their research work does not require students switching between screens (so far), and there are no plans to change this.

matthew-blackman commented 3 months ago

This has been discussed and the answer is yes - we would like to support multiple screens. This is already being supported. Closing.