PinkWrite 99

Typing and Editing for Learners and Teachers

Teachers, tutors, parents, and other educators can use this to ensure that students focus on learning content and core skill.

Features

• Useful for English Composition, writing assignments, and typing practice
• Copy-paste is disabled, so there is no cheating!
• Typing page displays a live word-counter
• A "writer" can type-up "writs" for review and scoring
• An "editor" can review and recommend changes
• An "observer" (such as a parent) can watch the writer's progress
• An "admin" can create "blocks" (such as classes), enroll writers, and assign observers
• Everyone can keep "notes", either in a special area per user or within each writ project
• Full supervisor features, including account control and repeat failed login IPs
• Ready for K12 school or other educational use
• Easy one-step install as a web app
• Free because it's OpenSource!

Includes:

• PinkWrite 88 (Learn typing to thoughtlessly use correct fingers within hours, included in PinkWrite 99)
• PinkWrite 99 (Writing composition and editing, where you are now)

Web cloud requirements

(same as WordPress)

• Simple LAMP stack
  • Linux
  • Apache web server
  • MySQL/MariaDB database
  • PHP
• FTP or CLI access to a hosted web folder
• Database and user already setup

Install Instructions

• Unzip the zip file or git clone the git repo into your web folder
• Make sure you have a MySQL/MariaDB database and user setup
• Go to your web folder: example.com/install.php
• Follow the one-step instructions

Admin recovery

• Download and place install.php from the web folder to create a new admin to regain access

Bugs & Contribution

This is a collaborative effort. If you find any bugs or security vulnerabilities, please fork and request a pull on GitHub!

You are also welcome to help rollout the product roadmap. SysAdmins and ITs for schools are especially welcome to contribute!

Product Roadmap

• Score reporting
  • GUI to see a writer's overall score and per block
  • XML export with XSL stylesheet
• Export content per user
  • Export database information
  • Can become new database, ready OOB for user to view old assignments on self-hosted PinkWrite 99
  • Can make things easy for a student (writer) to transfer to another school using PinkWrite 99
• Tasks
  • Universal from Admin & per Editor
  • Templates
  • Assignable to blocks and writers
  • Added to writ meta, linked to original template
• Tests
  • Text-based creation
  • Default "correct" answers
  • Scoring
  • Assignable to blocks and writers
• Level management (ie grade/year in school)
  • Applies to blocks and writers
• Groups
  • Spanning blocks, editors, levels
  • Assignable to blocks, editors, levels
  • Can receive assigned tasks & tests
  • Can share common notes

For detailed and current to-do list, see 99-dev/TODO.md