[Building Sakai] My work on a Samigo Calculated Question type

[Sam Ottenhoff]

This is impressive and has been a major feature gap for some users of 
assessments.  I'm happy to help review when ready.

--Sam

On 2/10/2011 10:22 AM, Paul Dagnall wrote:
> I have been working on adding a Samigo Calcuated Question type for our 
> institution (Sakai 2.6.x). Instructors at our institution and at a few 
> others have been requesting this for some time. Currently I have it in 
> a state where I'm going to demo it for our institution's math 
> department, but there still is work to do. I just thought I'd let 
> everyone know that this is in the works.
>
> It will allow for questions such as the following: "What is x * 
> sin(y)?"   ---   where 0 < x < 100 and 0 < y < 90"
>
> It will support common math functions such as trig functions, roots, 
> logs, absolute value, etc. Variables are defined similarly to how 
> matching values are currently created. The question will be formated 
> similarly to how Numeric response questions are currently formatted. 
> To students it will appear just like a numeric response question.
>
> On the technical side of things, it does not require any new DB 
> columns and I did my best to follow existing Samigo conventions and 
> limit changes to the other areas of the tool. This is for ticket: 
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-7906
>
> I can't provide an exact time table of when this will be totally 
> finished, but I definitely will be able to share it at our next Sakai 
> conference.
>
> Feel free to ask me any questions.
>
>
> Paul Dagnall
> Web Developer
> University of Dayton
>
>
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