Are guided notes a #handout or a #worksheet?

[Rob Beezer]

Having never used guided notes in a classroom, I'm a bit out of touch.

An #exercise in a #worksheet can have @workspace, to leave room for writing.
Now I am acutely aware that #handout is being used where #p, and lots of other
items, have @workspace. Presumably to support guided notes.

So the schema will need @workspace-enabled variants for descendants of
#worksheet, descendants of #handout, and perhaps descendants of both. Which
filters up though various structures, like #paragraphs, which becomes a mess
(since it is no longer a parent/child relationship, it depends on an ancestor).

As a practical matter, maybe the schema will allow all sorts of elements to have
@workspace in lots of places, and some run-time mechanism will only honor the
ones that are permitted. The validation-plus stylesheet could mirror this
arrangement.

I think of a #worksheet as something a student writes on, and a #handout as
something passed out to be read.

So where do guided notes fall, and how are we going to effectively communicate
the location of @workspace to authors, software editing tools, and AI agents?

Rob

[Oscar Levin]

The impetus for #handout was exactly guided notes.  I think it still aligns with your heuristic of a #handout as something to be passed out to be read, it just has room for students to take notes as well (and then read; they are filling in parts of the stuff to read themselves).  A #worksheet is something students use to guide their individual or small group work, via a collection of exercises or project-likes.

Practically, the only difference in current pretext implementation is that an #exercise in a #worksheet has its components controlled separately, since they are "worksheet-exercises," while an #exercise in a #handout is an "inline-exercise" (a checkpoint).  One of the side-effects of allowing workspace in more places for #handout is that this can also be done in #worksheet (and I don't see any reason to add a bunch of code to prevent this).   

One more thing: Mitch and I chatted the other day about how it would be nice to allow @workspace on elements in a slideshow, since that is very much like guided notes, just using slides instead of full sheets of paper.