On September 30, 2006, James Cummings wrote:

> Marcus Bingenheimer wrote:
> > multi-language environment. So I used Oxygen on a classroom license. I 
> > like O a lot, but apart from the (reasonable) costs for the institution, 
> > it is something of an over-kill for beginners. A more light-weight 
> > application might actually be better for the classroom. I have been 
> 
> Marcus,
> 
> There is another option.  If you setup oXygen with many of the 
> toolbars removed/customised and all the sidebar panels collapsed, the 
> options file can then be copied to all the student's versions on 
> classroom computers (or however you have it set up).  Thus, you could 
> use oxygen, but still present a very simple interface.
> 
> In addition, the XSLT debugger and the XQuery debugger could be very 
> useful for teaching those technologies.  I particular like the feature 
> of being able to click on a bit of xhtml output in the XSLT Debugger, 
> and see not only the XSLT template which created it, but where it came 
> from in the XML.   There are some useful pedagogical possibilities in 
> there somewhere.
> 
> -James

Yes, I like the flexibility of OxygenXML's interface.

And still another modification or possiblity is to use the Linux Terminal Server Project (for example, see: http://ltsp.org/, http://k12ltsp.org/, http://edubuntu.org/) to run all instances of OxygenXML from the terminal server.  Provides for a central single configuration point, eliminating the need to copy the configuration file to each student station.