[ubuntu-uk] Education software - purplemash anyone?

Byte Soup bytesoup at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 10:32:51 UTC 2011


On 06/07/2011, Paul Sutton <zleap at zleap.net> wrote:
> On 06/07/11 08:56, Byte Soup wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> My kids school are considering spending money on a yearly subsciption
>> to this --> http://www.purplemash.com/
>>
>> Now as most parents I think its a shame if the school spends money on
>> things they dont need and I also believe that the reason this happens
>> sometimes is that the school simply arent aware of alternatives.
>>
>> Does anyone have any useful information, alternatives I could feedback
>> to the school?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>
>
> I think you need to look out side the box here,  I clicked on the news
> report for the moon landing and it really helps the user with what to
> put in their article,  pictures are drag and drop,  but it is
> scaffolding the user by asking questions and suggesting what to include,
>
> normal software does not do this,  with Openoffice, libreoffice, scribus
> you have blank canvas and are expected to know what to type and how to
> write stuff for it.
>
> It is also web based which means the school does not have to install
> software, (less time fixing software issues for IT co-ordinators)
>
> I am using firefox and it works fine,  or seems to, I would have an
> issue if it was written specifically for IE< in which case your argument
> would be more about web standards, etc
>
> Paul

Quoting from the site:

An annual licence costs just £500 +VAT a year and includes unlimited
use both at school and at home. This price is based on schools with
100-500 pupils. Please contact 2Simple if your school is outside of
this range.

Does this seem expensive if there are foss alternatives?

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