Sync / contrib cards

[s.pur...@gmail.com]

Hello,

The built-in sync function seems to be designed for a single user.

I am thinking of using Mnemosyne for an entire classroom, getting students to collaborate on card creation but keep statistics individually and learning schedules independent of the others.

I am wondering if Mnemosyne syncs statistics as well as cards (treats all users connecting to a server as the same person) or just syncs the cards (card database independent of statistics).

Also, the class that will be using this program may be on different devices (we use CentOS in the classroom, but people have Mac/Windows at home and Android on-the-go), so is there a way to keep statistics synced between an individual's devices?

This might be overly complicated. We could also get each student to set up their own server where they want to use more than one device, and deploy a database file periodically. This would destroy the idea of students contributing their own cards, though.

Any elegant, built-in solutions that I'm just not seeing?

[Peter Bienstman]

The sync server is indeed single user. If you want to distribute a set of cards to many students, export these cards to a '*.cards" file and then have each student import this file into his or her copy of Mnemosyne.

Collaborative creating/editing of cards is not supported, though, although if you distribute a new version of the *.cards file, e.g. with typo fixes or new cards, students can import it and it will apply the changes without overwriting their progress.

Cheers,

Peter