Rob Beezer wrote: > On Apr 13, 12:20 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. >> >> Also, it would be nice if there were a cool way to annotate worksheets >> that involves some yellow magic cells distinct from anything in there >> now (i.e., me marking up student work). > > I graded Mathematica assignments weekly for a course I taught many > years ago with the "Calculus & Mathematica" materials. William's two > suggestions above would be at the top of my list: > > 1. A clear way to make comments. Maybe a directive like %hide (say > %comment?) at the top of a cell, plus a checkbox like "Typeset" to > turn them on/off. Or maybe just some CSS styling to make them obvious > to the student who skims the returned work. As three-quarters of the > class meetings were in a computer lab, and the submitted work was a > large portion of the grade, the comments were an important part of the > course, so making them stand out would be important. >
So what if a control-hotkey would change the cell to a specific "comment" css style, sort of like how Control-(1,2,3,4,5,6) select different styles now in TinyMCE? Then to make a comment, you: * Create a new tinyMCE cell, which is a shift-click * Hit a hotkey to set a certain style, which makes your comment stand out, say, making the text red, or something. This would require hardly any changes, I think, and would be very easy. It's just a matter of giving tinymce knowledge about one more special CSS style. Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
