Hello: I'm now learning moodle as admin, and I would like to use another kind of moodle integration, just to control access to the sage server and to organize the notebooks. I have the following reasons:
1) Security: I've been told sage servers can be taken down if universal access is allowed. If I want a secure enough sage server without constant monitoring and my limited admin experience then I'd have to create one accounts for each student myself and mail them the passwords or what?. Moodle has many ways to deal with this problem, like the password for enrollment, so that students can create their own accounts. 2) Organization and sharing: sage notebooks aren't organized in folders and they aren't attached to a calendar. They all appear in a single long list. If I want to place a notebook at a particular moment of a course, I can think of two approaches: * Using the sharing capabilities of sage: I would publish a notebook in sage, then students would edit a copy or create other notebooks, and share them with me. Occasionally, I would publish some of the students' notebooks. This all happens outside moodle, though I could post links to the notebooks in the moodle pages. E.g., a student could write a post in a forum with a link to the notebook she's just published. * Upload the sws files into moodle. Then if students want to show me their notebooks, they can either send their sws files as assignments, or place their files in the public forums if they want to share their work with the other students. They'd have to keep two separate tabs, one for moodle and the other for sage, each with a different login. This is all possible, but some integration would make it simpler, and reduce dramatically the number of clicks. Something like this: a student logs into moodle, goes to the course page, sees the new activity "linear algebra with sage" for this week, clicks on it to go directly to the sage notebook and saves it when she's done. I could see the list of notebooks of any one student, and edit them to add comments. When a student sees the list of her notebooks, she knows which ones I have modified. Just this would make a difference for me. I'll be teaching with sage next year for the first time, so please tell me if this makes sense to you. Regards, Pablo Angulo PS: google doesn't allow me to send emails normally for some obscure reason. I have to login and post from the web browser: does any of you have this problem? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
