[LON-CAPA-users] practice problems

[Robley Light]

You can see some examples of this at a set of chemistry demo problems:

http://www.chem.fsu.edu/editors/rlight/LON_CAPA/Demos/index.htm

The two downsides:  You can't be logged into the system, and the problem has
to be published as "public", so you can only use your own problems unless
you can get others to republish a problem you are interested in.

I believe this has been requested as a feature to be added to those logged
into the system, but don't know where that stands on the priority list or
what the pitfalls would be of introducing it.

Robley Light

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org 
> [mailto:lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of 
> Ray Batchelor
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:15 AM
> To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] practice problems
> 
> 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.
> 
> I do not know if this funtionality yet works while logged in, 
> but I doubt it.
> 
> 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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