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| 11284 | obado | 2 | <h2 id="institution">The structure of an institution interface</h2> |
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| 4 | An institutional structure is a multi-level lattice of a group of virtual |
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| 5 | classes. Each virtual class in the lattice is called a <em>work zone</em>, |
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| 6 | or <em>zone</em>. |
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| 8 | <p id="portal"> |
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| 9 | The structure of an institution is built below a unique zone called |
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| 10 | <em>portal</em>. This is the common entrance point, it serves also for |
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| 11 | global management for the institution. No real teaching work should take |
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| 12 | place in this zone.</p> |
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| 14 | <p id="level"> |
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| 15 | Zones immediately below the portal are <em>levels</em>. A level corresponds to |
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| 16 | a set of students sharing the same annual programs.</p> |
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| 23 | reyssat | 17 | <p> |
| 11284 | obado | 18 | The role of levels is essentially to separate things that have no relation |
| 19 | between them. |
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| 20 | Student logins are not |
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| 21 | accepted for levels, nor teaching works. |
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| 22 | </p> |
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| 24 | <p id="class"> |
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| 25 | <em>Classes</em> are immediately below each level. A class is a group of |
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| 26 | students sharing the same teaching time table. |
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| 27 | </p> |
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| 28 | <p>Students should log in to classes. Each student may have one or more classes.</p> |
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| 30 | <p id="program"> |
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| 31 | Immediately below a level are also <em>programs</em>. Each program is a |
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| 14525 | bpr | 32 | gathering point of teaching materials shared by one or several classes in |
| 11284 | obado | 33 | the level.</p> |
| 34 | <p>Students cannot log in to programs. Teachers can log to programs (as |
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| 35 | supervisors) in order to prepare teaching materials.</p> |
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| 37 | <p id="course"> |
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| 38 | <em>Courses</em> are zones of lowerest level. Each course belongs to a |
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| 39 | program, as well as to a class. One can think that to every pair |
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| 40 | {program,class} may correspond a course.</p> |
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| 23 | reyssat | 41 | <p> |
| 14525 | bpr | 42 | Teaching materials of a program are shared by all its courses. A student in |
| 11284 | obado | 43 | a class can navigate between the courses of the class. Daily student works |
| 44 | are done in courses.</p> |
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| 14525 | bpr | 45 | <p>A course has a unique set of teaching materials, and a unique time table.</p> |
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| 11284 | obado | 47 | <p id="icourse"> |
| 48 | A program can also have <em>Interclass courses</em>. Such a course only |
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| 49 | belongs to a program, and students from any class can register to an |
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| 50 | interclass course. This can be used for optional teaching programs.</p> |
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| 52 | <p id="test"> |
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| 53 | Each program can also have a special course, called <em>test zone</em>. |
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| 14525 | bpr | 54 | Teachers can prepare experimental teaching materials in the text zone, then |
| 11284 | obado | 55 | export them to the program when finished. Everything in the test zone is |
| 56 | invisible to the students.</p> |