[Mod] Classroom [0.1][classroom]

[rubenwardy]

An easy way to manage students in-game, with support for bulk actions and macros.

An action is something that can be performed on a selection of students. You can use actions to move players, grant/revoke privs, and more. A list of built-in actions can be found in the readme, but you can add more actions using the API for this mod.

Requires Minetest 5.1.0

Dependencies: sfinv (included in minetest game)

Source: https://gitlab.com/rubenwardy/classroom
Download: https://content.minetest.net/packages/r ... /download/
ContentDB: https://content.minetest.net/packages/r ... classroom/

[runs]

Great for teachers and schools.

:-)

[CalebJ]

Oooh, really great. I think this will be a good promotional feature for Minetest :))

[Hume2]

Nice idea!
Are you going to make Minetest Educational Edition? :D

[rubenwardy]

Nice idea!
Are you going to make Minetest Educational Edition? :D

Perhaps!

[Nigel]

Epic work & great idea!
Thanks for this, teaching my young twins how to play will now be a lot less like herding kittens ;-) I'll install it on my server today for when they play again tomorrow.

[Nigel]

Hi rubenwardy, I don't suppose there is any chance you could add a chat-command to open the formspec for us weird people who insist on using unified_inventory?

[texmex]

Nice mod, the educators of the MT community will surely appreciate it. Maybe add a freeze/unfreeze feature or is that too harsh?

[rubenwardy]

Hi rubenwardy, I don't suppose there is any chance you could add a chat-command to open the formspec for us weird people who insist on using unified_inventory?

This is planned. I may add support for UI by copying code from another of my mods, but I really don't want to spend too much time doing that

Nice mod, the educators of the MT community will surely appreciate it. Maybe add a freeze/unfreeze feature or is that too harsh?

I'd also like to add that, it's useful in combination with audience and look

[Miniontoby]

Nice. But why that idea??

[rubenwardy]

Nice. But why that idea??

What do you mean by "that" idea? The idea for this mod?

I had the idea for this mod after seeing the potential and current use for Minetest in education, and from receiving feedback from teachers. My aim is to eventually produce a semi-official modpack and set of tools to make using minetest easier for education. I considered contributing to edutest, but didn't like the license or the direction

[zeuner]

Nice. But why that idea??

What do you mean by "that" idea? The idea for this mod?

I had the idea for this mod after seeing the potential and current use for Minetest in education, and from receiving feedback from teachers. My aim is to eventually produce a semi-official modpack and set of tools to make using minetest easier for education. I considered contributing to edutest, but didn't like the license or the direction

Did you bother opening issues about your concerns on the edutest project?

The edutest licensing was already adapted once in order to be able to integrate a contribution. Of course, it becomes harder to make changes on this the later someone asks. So far, you are the first who seems to have a problem with the current licensing of edutest.

Edutest is also based on feedback from teachers, so I would love to hear about directional concerns. But one thing I'm pretty sure about: That neither of the teachers you or me surveyed responded with a: "We need more incompatible education-related mods aiming at doing the same things"

Nonetheless, what I see here looks promising. Just unsure about the merits of fragmenting the educational world of minetest...

[zeuner]

Hi rubenwardy, I don't suppose there is any chance you could add a chat-command to open the formspec for us weird people who insist on using unified_inventory?

You might want to have a look at edutest (viewtopic.php?t=18988). It's been developed since 2017 with the goal of assisting teachers/instructors, and it supports both unified_inventory and sfinv (and on an experimental basis, the Lord of the Test subgame).

[zeuner]

Nice mod, the educators of the MT community will surely appreciate it. Maybe add a freeze/unfreeze feature or is that too harsh?

You might want to have a look at edutest (viewtopic.php?t=18988). It's been developed since 2017 with the goal of assisting teachers/instructors, and it already provides a GUI frontend for freeze/unfreeze when the corresponding mod is installed.

[v-rob]

Honestly, duplicates aren't bad (we aren't Stack Overflow). Duplicates in the open source world add alternatives to people who don't like something in certain software. Each alternative can add things to the others.

[zeuner]

Honestly, duplicates aren't bad (we aren't Stack Overflow). Duplicates in the open source world add alternatives to people who don't like something in certain software. Each alternative can add things to the others.

Two things:

I'm not saying duplicates are always bad. I'm just saying I don't understand why people who don't like some things wouldn't just communicate first, for example through opening an issue in the project. Considering that a large company is doing massive lobbying work for getting their education-targeted 3D open world game used in schools, I think we would all do better coordinating our efforts towards an open source alternative. After all, you can easily duplicate code, but you cannot duplicate users. Having an universal education-targeted tool would make it easier to acquire larger institutional users.

Also, the merit of open source is exactly that duplicate effort can be reduced. The code can be adapted when you don't like things, eliminating the need to write things again.

[texmex]

I find the concern for mod redundancy a bit odd in this context (MT modding community). A large part of what we as a community do is reimplementing roughly the same features in new mods over and over again, for various reasons. This is isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

[luizsab]

Hello!
I'm a teacher and I loved the idea. I am testing on my notebook and I found unstable for me start using at classroom, sometimes the window goes gray and the server goes down and my students are impatients.
Updated Minetest to 5.1 and added private teacher to admin. I hope the mod will be stable soon.

Congratulations on your work and contribution. I really liked this mod.

[Miniontoby]

sometimes the window goes gray and the server goes down.

That means that there is an error, so please if it happen go to the folder of the minetest server, open 'debug.txt' and scroll down to the bottom and post the last 7 lines.

[luizsab]

This my last attempt:

2020-01-06 15:49:27: WARNING[Main]: TextureSource::getPalette(): the specified palette image "unifieddyes_palette_extended.png" is larger than 256 pixels, using the first 256.
2020-01-06 15:49:28: ERROR[Main]: generateImage(): Could not load image "darkage_marble.png" while building texture; Creating a dummy image
2020-01-06 15:49:28: ACTION[Server]: Giving initial stuff to player fernando
2020-01-06 15:49:28: ACTION[Server]: fernando [192.168.0.109] joins game.
2020-01-06 15:49:28: ACTION[Server]: fernando joins game. List of players: luiz luizsabino fernando
2020-01-06 15:49:43: ERROR[Main]: Invalid list ring element(1, 1): ''
2020-01-06 15:49:50: WARNING[Emerge-0]: Call to deprecated function 'get2d', please use 'get_2d' at ...st/worlds/3_ano/worldmods/plantlife/cavestuff/mapgen.lua:17
2020-01-06 15:49:50: WARNING[Server]: Call to deprecated function 'get2d', please use 'get_2d' at ...luiz/.minetest/worlds/3_ano/worldmods/biome_lib/init.lua:88
2020-01-06 15:50:00: ERROR[Main]: Invalid list ring element(1, 1): ''
2020-01-06 15:51:24: ACTION[Server]: luizsabino sets time to 6000
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: AsyncErr: ServerThread::run Lua: Runtime error from mod '' in callback on_playerReceiveFields(): /home/luiz/.minetest/mods/classroom/actions.lua:12: attempt to index local 'player' (a nil value)
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ERROR[Main]: /home/luiz/.minetest/mods/classroom/actions.lua:12: in function 'func'
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ERROR[Main]: /home/luiz/.minetest/mods/classroom/api.lua:147: in function 'run_action'
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ERROR[Main]: /home/luiz/.minetest/mods/classroom/gui_dash.lua:380: in function 'handle_results'
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ERROR[Main]: /home/luiz/.minetest/mods/classroom/gui_dash.lua:436: in function </home/luiz/.minetest/mods/classroom/gui_dash.lua:435>
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ERROR[Main]: /usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:429: in function </usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:413>
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ERROR[Main]: Access denied. Reason: This server has experienced an internal error. You will now be disconnected.
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ACTION[Server]: luizsabino leaves game. List of players:
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ERROR[Main]: Access denied. Reason: This server has experienced an internal error. You will now be disconnected.
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ACTION[Server]: luiz leaves game. List of players:
2020-01-06 15:51:33: ACTION[Server]: fernando leaves game. List of players:
2020-01-06 15:51:34: ACTION[Main]: Server: Shutting down
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In this case, when I try to bring all players it's work, but if I selected a player the server shutting down.

[rubenwardy]

That should be fixed in 0.3.1 - it was attempting to run an action on a player that had left the game

[luizsab]

I understand. But I was with the players online, I'm using virtualbox with network on bridge mode

[christoferlevich]

I tried for a few yrs to do something educational, and did actual classes in school for 2 years, all day long with kids simply building and exploring with currency added - building models from their town including an actual model for their school. It faded out with the incoming of new admins, but its being brought back by student demand... lol - anyways - I am so excited you made this and I hope you continue. My skill set could only take it so far...