"Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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,
Yes, I would like to use open source/free software. > there are already other opensource alternatives: > http://www.lon-capa.org/ --- I'm not sure what it uses This seems an overkill: a complete Course Management System, and the "TA" functionality is just a small part of it. > http://stack.sourceforge.net/ --- uses maxima in the backend This seems more close to what I was looking for, and although by default it uses maxima in the backend in its website it says that it can be hooked to other CAS as well. > If your goal in something SAGEy, that's another issue. I would like to use SAGE because it's the most complete free CAS today. If you have a "SAGE TA" then you also have a "Maxima TA", a "GAP TA", a "Singular TA" ... so you can use such a system in many different courses. > 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. > The question banks are indeed a big plus. But as I said, I am not really looking for a Course Management System (at least not right now). If these questions are freely available though maybe other projects can use them, that's one of the big advantages of free software. Best, Nikos --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
