Re: [sage-edu] Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-31 Thread Jason Grout
On 1/30/11 11:50 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins wrote: The thing is that I want to have some sort of time stamp so I know they finished by the deadline. My understanding is that they could keep changing the shared worksheets, right? In the worksheet listing, there is a timestamp, but it isn't very us

Re: [sage-edu] Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-31 Thread Luiz Felipe Martins
It is a step in the right direction, but I am not sure it solves the problem. The main problem with the sharing+timestamping approach is that the worksheets continue *available* to the students. So, if a student shares a worksheet and subsequently "touches" it (even, say, opening it by "mistake"),

Re: [sage-edu] Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-31 Thread Jason Grout
On 1/31/11 6:24 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins wrote: It is a step in the right direction, but I am not sure it solves the problem. The main problem with the sharing+timestamping approach is that the worksheets continue *available* to the students. So, if a student shares a worksheet and subsequently "t

Re: [sage-edu] Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-31 Thread Luiz Felipe Martins
> > I don't think opening it will change the timestamp.  However, changing > something would.  I tell my students not to touch their worksheet after the > deadline (on penalty of it not being accepted as a "late" worksheet).  Then > I just download all the worksheets after the deadline (say by the

[sage-edu] Re: Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-31 Thread pang
I use moodle for the submissions, but I had to write some scripts to automate parts of the process. For example, I have a python script to send each student an email with the corrected worksheet. I think that downloading a copy of all worksheets on the deadline date would work fine, and uses less

[sage-edu] Re: Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-31 Thread kcrisman
On Jan 31, 7:36 am, Jason Grout wrote: > On 1/31/11 6:24 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins wrote: > > > It is a step in the right direction, but I am not sure it solves the > > problem. The main problem with the sharing+timestamping approach is > > that the worksheets continue *available* to the students.

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-31 Thread Jason Grout
On 01/31/2011 09:32 AM, kcrisman wrote: On Jan 31, 7:36 am, Jason Grout wrote: On 1/31/11 6:24 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins wrote: It is a step in the right direction, but I am not sure it solves the problem. The main problem with the sharing+timestamping approach is that the worksheets continue

[sage-edu] Re: Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-31 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jan 31, 4:36 am, Jason Grout wrote: > If someone doesn't get to this, I might work on something > like this over the summer, as I'm funded to work on notebook code that > makes Sage easier to use in the classroom. Jason, Would it make sense to start a wiki page where folks can describe curren

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage for lab submissions.

2011-01-31 Thread Jason Grout
On 01/31/2011 12:40 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: On Jan 31, 4:36 am, Jason Grout wrote: If someone doesn't get to this, I might work on something like this over the summer, as I'm funded to work on notebook code that makes Sage easier to use in the classroom. Jason, Would it make sense to start a wi