[LON-CAPA-users] practice problems

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Ray, et al,


> Well, I see no-one who knows better has responded yet... so...
> I believe that if you have problems which are published "Public".
> The you can simply give the students the URL of the problem.
> They then just go directly to that URL without logging-in and it should behave 
> asit would for a course coordinator  browsing RES. i.e. they can request a 
> new randomization.

Correct.


> I do not know if this funtionality yet works while logged in, but I doubt it.

Only for people who can browse RES space. (I.E. not students)


> The important point is that the problems must be published "Public".
> 
> On Monday 26 September 2005 19:27, James Sullivan wrote:
> > I know this question has been posed before to the list:
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there anyway to create a practice assignment? I would like to post a
> > sequence of problems for students to practice in preparation for an exam.
> > Obviously I do not want the problems to be graded so I can set the weight
> > of the problems to 0.
> >
> >
> >
> > But in addition I would like the students to be able to repeat problems,
> > even if they get them correct, so that they may practice the problem
> > solving skills with different (randomly generated) input and numbers. It
> > would be like the capability the author and course coordinator have to
> > generate new randomizations, but at the student level.
> >
> >
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thnx,
> >
> > JMS
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > James M. Sullivan, Assistant Professor
> > jmsullivan@vcu.edu
> >
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> Simon Fraser University
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