User Model

[benloh]

[Some rough notes on user models]

Joshua's writeup of File and Data MVP

Ben's whimsical sketch

Roles

• Admin (Technical)
• Researcher (Non-technical Grad Student)
• Teacher
• Student

Permissions

• Project
  • Read/Write/Rename/Move/Add/Delete
  • Any/Group/Own -- Unix-like permission model with r/w/x per user/group?
  • Project: Edit Round Scripts -- Prevent students from inadvertently editing key scripts?
  • Project: Edit Instance Scripts
  • Project: Edit Blueprint (Character) Scripts
• Project: Viewer -- Need permission to view a particular running project?
• Project: Control Characters via CharControl -- Need permission to log in to control a character?
• Assets
  • Add Asset
• Server/Main
  • Change Locale
  • Set Transforms
• User Management
  • User -- Add/Update/Rename/Delete
  • Role -- Add/Update
  • Group -- Assign/Remove
  • Group -- Add/Update/Rename/Delete

Data Models

Project Model

• FIELDS
  • Name
  • Owner? (User or Group or Classroom or Role?)
• NOTES
  • A project might be be opened by a teacher for a whole class to work on, by a group, or by an individual.

User Model

• FIELDS
  • Name
  • Role
  • Classroom
  • Groups
• NOTES
  • A user can belong to more than one group over time

Group Model

• FIELDS
  • Name
  • Classroom
• NOTES
  • Different groups might be created over time. e.g. For fall semester you're in one group, a second group for first half winter, then a third group for second half of winter.
  • Does group membership expire?
  • Is there a notion of a current (active) group?

Classroom Model

• FIELDS
  • Name
  • Teachers (User) -- A classroom can have more than one teacher? Owners?
  • Location (?)
• NOTES
  • It can be useful to assign a project to a classroom-level permissions so that anyone in the classroom can work with it (certainly at least view it)?

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User Stories

Typical Group Size

• Small Group -- 3 - 5 students
• Half Class -- 12 - 15 students
• Whole Class -- 24 - 30 students

Project Development

• A project (e.g. Moths) is developed at one site. At some point it is shared to another site.
  • How do you know which is the latest version?
  • How do you know it's ready to be shared?
  • How do you prevent others from inadvertently clobbering a "finished" project?
  • Are the new users expected to manually make their own copy?
  • Are all projects from all locations listed in a single list?
  • How do you share just the one project?

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Questions

• Do Admins or Researchers need to have restricted permissions, or can they read/write anywhere?

[benloh]

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