Tutorials editor

The first step in promoting the usage of Tutorius will be to have teachers, developers and enthusiasts generate ideas and content for the platform. In order to enable these people to insert their tutoring ideas in Tutorius, we will be creating a Tutorial Editor. This will be a Sugar Activity that will enable one of these creators to generate a tutorial. You will be able to connect blocks to create a list of steps that the student must go through in order to learn what you want to show them, and you will be able to specify actions to take at each of these steps (display a texte bubble, change the color of an interface element, etc…). The goal of the Tutorial Editor is to make it extremely easy to create new tutorials.

Website

The second step is to browse the Community Web Site to fetch the latest and greatest tutorials that were made around the world. The web site will be featuring a list of the most popular tutorials, as well as a classification of the tutorials according to the various topics. Students will be able to select this content on the web and to install it on their own version of Sugar. We do not plan to make the Community Web Site mandatory to share tutorials; we wish to make it so that teachers creating their tutorials can share them via mesh network with their student. The brightest side of the Community Web Site is that the best content will be widely available.

Interactive tutor

The third and final step is to have the Interactive Tutor guide the user in a variety of topics. The tutor pops up explanation text bubbles, highlights important sections of the interface and generally makes the life of the student easier with his programmed brain from a teacher. We’d like the tutor to be able to suggest new tutorials to the student, based on his actions and knowledge. Is the student hitting the backspace key a lot? Perhaps he would like to know about the Typing Activity! Or perhaps the student just finished a tutorial on turning text bold? Perhaps he’d like to know more about doing italic! The possibilities are endless.