[BNM] Anonymous user identification

[Jason Bailey]

I was thinking similar. Could you auto-create usernames too and set the password for all accounts for first time users to something known to the teacher (make them change password on first use). The teacher has the usernames on a piece of paper (I try to get my wife to use computers more but she prefers her notebook as a teacher).

The usernames are unique and only the teacher and student knows them. I think this means that the data couldn't be used to identify someone which might be what you're after? Or does writing something on a bit of paper make what I've said nonsense.

I guess the issues here are data protection. Can you store anything related to the students? If you're talking about personalisation will the screen say "Morning, Jane" which I assume you can't do as your data protection register thing doesn't cover it???

Could they access the social app from another URL (e.g. their VLE/Moodle) which could encrypt their username/personal I/etcD to something that your system picks up and recognises as unique visitor 1.

Jas

--- On Wed, 14/5/08, John Montgomery <john at littlespikeyland.com> wrote:

> From: John Montgomery <john at littlespikeyland.com>
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Anonymous user identification
> To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 14 May, 2008, 11:18 AM
> Couldn't you auto-generate a password instead?  There-by
> ensuring they
> are unique.
> 
> 2008/5/14 Jay Caines-Gooby <jay at gooby.org>:
> > Small bit of background required:
> >
> >  Teachers (who we store username, password, etc
> details for) login to
> >  the system and create lessons. They will optionally
> make these lessons
> >  available to their students. The situation we're
> trying to avoid is
> >  storing any personal data about these primary-school
> children.
> >
> >  So far the solution I've come up with is quite
> straightforward to
> >  implement and works a treat: teachers click a link to
> publish the
> >  lesson for students, and the system generates a
> shorturl plus PIN. The
> >  teachers tells the students they want to give access
> to, the URL and
> >  the PIN. When students visit the URL, they're
> asked for the PIN and
> >  then allowed access.
> >
> >  What I'd like to do next is implement some
> personalisation. Obviously
> >  I could just set a cookie, but this isn't ideal,
> as students often
> >  share a computer, and the cookie would then
> effectively personalise
> >  things incorrectly when a new student used a
> previously-cookied
> >  session.
> >
> >  I thought about asking the kids to supply a password
> that we could
> >  then associate with the PIN, and then you effectively
> get unique
> >  users, but the flaw here is that if you refuse a
> password (because its
> >  already been created) then effectively letting them
> know that they're
> >  guessed someone else's password :P
> >
> >  Any other suggestions? I don't want the teacher
> to have to create
> >  individual passwords. Do you think I'm just going
> to have to dump the
> >  idea of personalisation?
> >
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