Fwd: Possible to do quizzes and/or practice problems in notebook?

[kcrisman]

Not yet! BUT there are Sage and WeBWorK developers actively engaged
in bringing the communities together that have a lot of code for
integrating them. Thanks for your interest!

Forwarding to sage-edu, which is probably the right venue for this :)

- kcrisman

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Seberino <cseber...@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 29, 12:20 pm
Subject: Possible to do quizzes and/or practice problems in notebook?
To: sage-support

Anyone know of any examples of doing quizzes and/or practice problems
in Sage notebook worksheets?  I'm imagining something where the
worksheet asks a question and students can type in their answers to
see if they are right or not.

Links to example worksheets would be very much appreciated if such a
beast exists.

Sincerely,

Chris

[dimpase]

One can write a Python function to quiz people – that's of course suboptimal...

(such a function should have its source code hidden, but this is not too hard to achieve)

[Luiz Felipe Martins]

This probably is also a "subotimal" solution, but I have written Python code to generate exams using SageTeX, I have even a tentative interface using PyQT. If anyone is willing to try it, I'll be glad to send it. It is not still in a form I would feel comfortable distributing it widely, but of course I'd be happy to have someone else try it.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:23 AM, dimpase <dim...@gmail.com> wrote:

One can write a Python function to quiz people – that's of course suboptimal...

(such a function should have its source code hidden, but this is not too hard to achieve)

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[john_perry_usm]

A Python function could be useful if it were sufficiently randomized.
I reckon it depends on the sort of questions one wants to ask. It
wouldn't even have to hide the source code if the answer cannot be
easily reverse engineered from the problem.

If you have sufficiently smart students that you're worried about
their modifying the worksheet (not hard to do) an option would be to
lock shared worksheets, in such a way that neither the HTML nor the
text can be edited -- only the cells. I don't think that's a current
option, but perhaps it's doable? It seems like a desirable and
sensible feature.

[kcrisman]

I'll forward that to sage-notebook in case they think it's useful.

[kcrisman]

See also Jason's more detailed mention of WeBWorK in the notebook on
the sage-support version of this thread. In the future, this would be
the "right" way to do this, we think.