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KDE PIM journal.

This post is about increasing the target audience of KDE PIM Journal beyond business to schools and students.

It is the assumption of this author that the present target audience is business people.

The reason for this assumption is the print options.

They are, in order top down

details (visibility, secrecy)
ATTENDEES
notes, subnotes
ATTACHMENTS

A student would not need "attendees" in a journal / diary.

A student can, conceivably, use attachments for a journal to include a picture and the same might apply to notes.

The visibility / secrecy would apply in terms of the student wanting to keep some things private and at the same time to submit another part of the journal to a teacher for a class project.

It is the suggestion of this author that Schools / Students can be added as a target audience by the addition of:

a DATE RANGE option to the print / print to file function.

Below is the reasoning:

A) A “journal / diary” has always been a PAPER DOCUMENT which holds A DATE RANGE of musings which are inclusive of the first to the last entry.

B) Schools in the U.S. are presently, and have been for several years, very much into “journaling” for a variety of reasons such as “the sequence of the development of ideas or knowledge in a class”.

Both BLACKBOARD AND CANVAS have such an option but they are mainly college learning management systems and it is the experience of this author that the students themselves are hesitant to use a "web thing" for their journals and much prefer the submission of an attachment or a paper document.

This author has offered the option of journaling in Blackboard as a "substitute" for certain "assignments" and the students which chose the option liked the concept.

The printing of a "date range" either as a paper document or as a "print to file" would fulfill the requirements of all teachers who do journaling.

The DATE RANGE is the OPERATIVE idea of a "student journal for a class" to display a progression of thought over the unit or semester or class.

Thus, the addition of a “date range” export / print function will fulfill the PURPOSE of a journal / diary in Education.

It is therefore the suggestion of this author that the addition of such an option would increase the possibility of students using it to submit the journal to the school.

And, it might encourage schools themselves to use the Suite if the e-mail function can be worked out for things like interacting with the (usual) school’s Office365™ e-mail.

Especially, now that there is the KDE slim notebook!

woodsmoke

Just so that I understand:
The idea here is that Schools are using Journals as a way of communicating how a Student progresses through an assignment with their Teacher. The Journal is expected to contain notes by the Student about their progress as they work through an assignment. The student is expected to add entries to the Journal each time they work on an assignment (usually several times a week, possibly multiple times on a given day depending on schedule/habits/whatever). The Journal is only required to be submitted to the Teacher by specific times or at some interval. Blackboard and Canvas offer ways for Students to share a Journal with their Teachers (possibly by providing a page where they can add entries or a button for uploading a document containing their journal entries).

In Kontact there is a Journal feature which allows the user to add journal entries to their calendar as often as they see fit and then go back and review, etc. These entries come with a Print button which allows them to print a single journal entry with various options to include certain details.

If I understand correctly, your primary request is for a way to print all of the journal entries in some Date Range so that a student can submit these journal entries together?
I think it seems reasonable to add such a feature.

A couple of other useful features which could be included:

The ability to filter the entries by tag so that if they have journal entries for multiple assignments they can use a different tag for each assignment and print the journal entries for a single assignment by filtering on that assignment's tag.

Exporting the journal entries to an acceptable file format so they can be submitted to Blackboard/Canvas instead of requiring them to be printed (to a file).