Several of our .LRN client wished to print attendance or completion certificates after a user had completed and online or in-person course.

We developed an online system integrated with .LRN and the Attendance package to allow administators to choose which users had completed the course, and to layout and print certificates. We used the Reportlab rml XML format to define the templates and used tinyrml2pdf to generate the PDF files for each certificate.

Here is a demonstration of the system.

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It's great to see people starting to have success with Sugar on a Stick. It's still in Alpha but there is a new release and a bunch of testing scheduled for this week.  I'm very optomistic about what we'll have in a week.

Wayan Vota says, "It's great to see Sugar leaping from the XO onto other hardware platforms. We tried the HP Mini Note, Aspire One, Samsung MC10, and a full-sized Dell Notebook, the last one converted from Windows Vista to the joy of its owner."

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(photo by LAMS)

LAMS has always been focused on improving online pedagogy.  The new LAMS lesson planner takes this one step farther and scaffolds teachers while they create rich collaborative lesson plans.

Lesson templates include:

• Exploring Alternative Perspectives
• Problem Based Learning
• Role Play
• Case Study Focus

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(photo by Xconomy)

Sugar on a Stick highlighted in recent press on Sugar:

Xconomy: Thanks for coming by. So, where are you with Sugar?

Walter Bender: [Holding up a USB thumb drive] This is where we are. Live USB is going to be a really big part of Sugar in the next year or two, because it’s an easy way in the door. Most schools’ IT departments don’t even let teachers install software. The overhead associated with large IT infrastructures forces these people to be very conservative about adopting new ideas. So having Sugar on a stick means we can hand this to a teacher or a student and they don’t have to have any impact on the existing infrastructure at all. They can be off to the races using Sugar and all its advantages, in a computer lab, a classroom, at the library, at home, on their parent’s computer, at an Internet cafe—wherever they can get a computer that they can boot off a USB, which is most computers these days. Everything is stored on the USB, so essentially, your schoolwork walks around with you, in the form of your journal. We think it’s going to really make Sugar a lot more accessible.

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