As one of our goal is to guide the student through different type of learning activities, we plan to add a layer on top of Sugar to provide additional interaction between the system and the student. This could take the form of info bubble, video, audio, control highlighting, step-by-step guides, suggestions, examples, etc.

The tutor will offer more than static interaction, we plan to integrate an evaluation functionality so that it is possible to follow students’ progression and also evaluate them. Evaluation won’t attribute a grade to the students because as the goal is to make it more interesting for students to learn using a computer, we’d like the evaluation system to work more like a game. By that we mean that a  successfully completed activity could unlock another activity for example and this way, students aren’t judged by a grade or by how well they did. By making it look more like a game with things such as goals to achieve and activities to unlock, we hope to keep students motivated and interested.

Tutorius will keep every good aspect of Sugar like discovery and sharing, but will simply add an extra layer of interaction with students to guide them, trigger interest in what they are doing and keep them motivated.