[LON-CAPA-dev] lonsimpleproblemedit.pm

[Mark Lucas]

Gerd,

Thanks for the run down. This sounds like a good thing.

One question: if these are created under DOCS, what is the 'sharability' 
of these questions and their ability to be merged into other sequences?
(I'm still pretty DOC-naive, sorry!).

Thanks,
Mark

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 korte@lite.msu.edu wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> People kept asking for a mechanisms to make simple one-off problems in 
> the same way that syllabi, simple pages, etc, are made from inside DOCS.
> 
> In DOCS you will now find a button "Simple Problem" alongside 
> "Simple Page," etc.
> 
> If you press it you will be prompted for a title, and the thing gets
> glued into your folder.
> 
> If you navigate to that problem (after re-init course) you have a little
> Edit button on the left top corner. You can then edit the problem fairly
> simply. It offers Radio, Option, Essay, and String.
> 
> Down in the guts (not interesting to the user), the mechanism is very
> straightforward and not interfering with how the rest of LON-CAPA works. 
> 
> The URL is always /res/lib/templates/simpleproblem.problem, which is a
> static "published" resource. Different instances of URL have different
> symbs, like always.
> 
> Anyway, what the editor really does is set normal parameters for that
> resource, the same way that deadlines and tolerances work. Only in this
> case, you actually set the problem text, foil texts, etc, for the 
> instance of that one resource with that particular symb.
> 
> I am pretty happy about this mode, since it did not require any changes
> to the way LON-CAPA works (in fact, only uses existing mechanisms -
> LON-CAPA can do a ton of stuff that even we are often not aware of), 
> takes advantage of all caching, needs no replication or cross-server
> loads, etc.
> 
> If people want more sophisticated problems, they should continue to use
> the normal author mechanisms.
> 
> - Gerd.
> 
> Quoting Mark Lucas <lucas@lucas.phy.ohiou.edu>:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just saw a lonsimpleproblemedit.pm flow past in the cvs stuff. Can 
> > someone give the 4 line summary of what this is to do and how it
> > can/will 
> > be accessed?
> > 
> > Pras is currently playing around with an external simple editor in
> > visual 
> > basic that would provide the simplest form of radio or optionresponse
> > problems. It would create a file that could then be uploaded, so he/we
> > 
> > have a interest in what's going on here.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Mark
> > 
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Mark Lucas					email: lucasm@ohiou.edu
252D Clippinger Lab  				phone: (740)597-2984
Department of Physics and Astronomy             fax:   (740)593-0433
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701