Gem recommendation

[Scott Hofmann]

Hi All,

Any suggestions for a rubygem or tool for Rails that would help with tracking a student’s progress through web material?

 

For example, a student needs to read several webpages of information, then answer a set of questions, get score, then move them on to the next lesson if passed and repeat process for next lesson. Along giving the user a sense of where they are in the lessons being provided. I search Rubygems.org for words like teach, learn, test but I did not see anything that seem to match what I’m looking for in the results.

 

– Scott

 

[Doug Alcorn]

I think I've done stuff like this before. It seems like you'd need to save
the state on the user or create another model like UserProgress.

I don't think there are any gems that will do this for you. Sounds like
it's time to write custom software.

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[Scott Hofmann]

Thanks Doug for the insight.  – Scott

[Jim Weirich]

Like Doug, I don't know of any gems to do this, but I think you could just track the last question (assuming linear progress), or keep a list of answered questions (assuming random jumping around when answering questions).

For what its worth, the RubyKoans software tracks your progress through the koans set. We assume a linear progress and just persist the progress on the local file system.

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[Scott Hofmann]

Thanks Jim. That reminds me that I need to go back and finish those koans that I never fully completed! But kudos for building them, they have been valuable in my learning process. - Scott

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