On Nov 28, 6:39 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Alasdair <amc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Over two years ago there were some discussions on the sage-support > > group about the idea of "Sage TA", a Sage version of Maple TA, the > > teaching and assessment package produced by Maplesoft. I have spent > > several years, and a fair amount of grant money, buying and trying to > > use Maple TA at my own university, and I have been very disappointed > > by its clumsiness. Acquaintances of mine at other universities have > > recommended that I ditch Maple TA in favour of either AIM (open > > source, but which uses Maple as its "back end"), or STACK, which uses > > Maxima. > > > Anyway, I think the time is ripe for "Sage TA". Is there any > > development work going on? I can't write code for nuts, but I would > > be very happy to be involved in the development of such a beast. > > What would it do? "Teaching and assessment" seems a little too vague > for me to understand. > What's an absolutely minimal list of features that "Sage TA" would > have to have to make you > a satisfied customer?
And, as a followup, does WebWorK already have most of what you need in terms of this functionality (if I'm interpreting this right)? Making a "Sage TA" from scratch sounds like a lot of work... - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
