On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: >>> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at 09:41PM -0700, William Stein wrote: >>>> I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 >>>> homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets. If any of >>>> you reading this have also graded homework turned in as Sage >>>> worksheets, and have thoughts about how a nice workflow for doing this >>>> with the Sage notebook would work, please share them in this thread. >>> I am very interested in this, although I'm not sure the best solution to >>> this will be technical in nature. >>> >>> A Sage worksheet has two aspects: first, it's like a source code file >>> that one can feed into a compiler or interpreter. So for that aspect, >>> we'd want to look at automated tools used by programming classes for >>> grading coding assignments. >>> >>> The second aspect is that of a regular document, such as an HTML page or >>> LaTeX document. Grading this sort of thing is very much like grading >>> essays or papers in an English or writing class, which AFAIK is >>> un-automatable, unless one is using the staircase method. :) >>> >>> The first aspect can be automated, but it depends on what's in the >>> worksheet. What's in these homework assignments? >> >> I answer this later in the thread, but I'm not currently at all >> interested in the first thing you mention above, which is automated >> grading. I just want to make the process of 2 easier. E.g., if I >> have a directory on my computer with 20 sage worksheets, I want it to >> be trivial to upload them all into a single sage notebook server, as a >> sort of bundle, then be able to go through, look at each, and make a >> mark to indicate I finished grading each one. That sort of thing. >> >> Right now, I have to individually upload each of the 20 worksheets, >> which is tedious and error prone (since I might upload one twice, miss >> one, etc.). > > > > Idea 1 (as mentioned before): > > Each worksheet can have an unlimited number of tags. You can easily > filter by tags in the listing of worksheets. In the worksheet listing, > you can click on the checkbox next to a bunch of worksheets (or just > automatically select all worksheets that you are viewing) and download > them as one zip file. On the other hand, you can upload any number of > worksheets that are zipped together, optionally applying a tag to each > one. This last feature is so that you can upload a zip file containing > lots of worksheets and tag each one as a particular assignment. >
I also like this worksheet. It's conceptually straightforward. It would be nice to also have an option to download any clicked collection of worksheets as a single zip tarball. This could be very useful for migrating a bunch of worksheets from one server to another. Again, this would be easy to implement. > >> >> It might also be nice to integrate this with email, I.e., after I >> grade all the worksheets, I could have sage use its email command to >> email out all the graded versions of the worksheets back to the >> students.... I'm looking for little ideas like that to cut down on >> tedious work, reduce errors, so I can spend more time commenting on >> the student work. > > Yes, that sounds great; we could have another option with "Download > worksheet" which is "Email worksheet". I like that idea. It would likely be easy to implement and would be really useful. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
