Hi. I talked with Mike Hanson (mentioned in the 2009 thread I found) about this around 2008-2009. I am still interested in a sage-moodle integration. I found the 2009 thread, but nothing since (maybe I'm searching the wrong words).
Here is what I need/want. I want a system where writing my own questions is relatively easy (WeBWorK a free system does not satisfy this criterium), but that is married to an algebra system, so the answers to a question requiring the equation of a line treats y = 3x + 2 the same as y = 3(x-2) + 8. There are programs that satisfy both my criteria (relatively easy to write questions and can handle algebraically equivalent equations), but the one I know well is MapleTA which requires Maple and a separate server for MapleTA. I'm at a college that not only does not have Maple, we are considering replacing the system we have (Mathematica) with Sage across the curriculum. The beauty of Sage and Moodle from my perspective (again I've been talking about this since 2008) is that they are both open source. The question system in Moodle is resonably easy to use (one can put in mathematics using LaTeX and upload graphs) and reasonably flexible, so for those of mathematicians it only needs a powerful computer algebra system behind it to deal with algebraically equivalent expressions, etc. I do not have the expertise to do this myself (in either Sage or Moodle, but do have the expertise to use both if a good marriage was made and definitely enough to evangelize if someone ever makes the marriage). I have a sample quiz/set of questions I'd like to use in this marriage, if that would be helpful to anyone. I am hoping that this is long since solved and I just don't know where to look to set it up and responses will be something like, "Silly you, go here to set this up." But if not, will someone please solve this? I'm tired of being directed to programs that are either prohibitively expensive or only allow for expert users to upload problems from textbooks (WeBWork) rather than allowing people like me with some programing aptitude, but no time to be experts to write the problems we want. Thanks for your help! - Amelia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@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.
