On Monday 26 March 2007 07:44, Nikos Apostolakis wrote: > Hello group, > > has anybody tried to implement something like "Maple TA" in sage? > For example I would like to have students take placement exams with > "free form" answers. > > In case you don't know what Maple TA is:
Actually, if your goal is to have something opensource, there are already other opensource alternatives: http://www.lon-capa.org/ --- I'm not sure what it uses http://stack.sourceforge.net/ --- uses maxima in the backend If your goal in something SAGEy, that's another issue. To my eyes, lon-capa is the most sensible of all of them I've seen. They have a CD which you pop into a computer purchased *solely* for this. It installs their opensource stuff and away you go. It also appears to come with question banks. This fixes two problems which I think a lot of people underestimate -- 1) there is a very heavy server load for a decent sized class and 2) coming up with *debugged* question banks is a lot of work. -- Joel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
