<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div>One of my colleagues in a different department has an unusual request. He's</div><div>looking for something that can do what will be described below. He's curious about</div><div>whether LON-CAPA can do this. My first reaction is - no. But I'm curious if anyone has</div><div>ideas as to how this, or something close to it, could implemented using LC.</div><div>The other question is whether anyone has run into testing software that can do something</div><div>like this.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the request:</div><div><br></div><div>"I'm looking for something that will programmatically draw data from a database and allow the drills/quizzes to be shaped via templates that would be easily and quickly designed."<div><br></div><div>"Imagine a database of for an ornithology class. Each record is a bird. Fields include <common name>, <scientific name> <male (image)> <female (image)> <Mating call (audio)> <Alarm call (audio)> and maybe fields like <Present in Unit #>."</div><div><br></div><div>"A course designer (as opposed to programmer) could build a variety of templates: show common name, quiz on and validate against scientific name; play alarm call, quiz on and validate against male and female images. Then the instructor could pick a template and a range of data (e.g., <Present in Unit #> ≤ 4, and the program would automatically drill the student on all records fitting those criteria."</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Mark</div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>-- <br>Mark Lucas<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>email: <a href="mailto:lucasm@ohiou.edu">lucasm@ohiou.edu</a><br>252D Clippinger Lab<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>phone: (740)597-2984<br>Department of Physics and Astronomy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>fax: (740)593-0433<br>Ohio University<br>Athens, OH 45701</div></span>
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