[LON-CAPA-users] Alternate scoring systems?
Guy Albertelli II
lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:55:58 -0500 (EST)
Hi Brew,
> I am interested in implementing an alternate scoring
> system for some problem sequences. I am wondering if anyone else has
> done something similar, and how I would go about doing this.
>
> Option I
>
> My first thought was some kind of perl script in the sequence,
> modifying the resource.awarded value. To minimize maintenance
> headaches, it would be nice to put the logic in a central library and
> simply import the logic into the sequence.
>
> 1) Does this work?
Nope.
> 2) Can I import library logic into sequences?
Nope.
I could get into why this is as it is and why I'm fairly unwilling to
bend on it but the short answer is, Option II is there to do this.
> Option II
>
> My second thought was that maybe this is more appropriate using the
> spreadsheet logic.
Yep.
> There seems to be some type of programmability in
> the spreadsheets displayed. I played with this for a couple of hours,
> but was never able to deduce syntax and commands available. I did find
> a brief discussion in some online manual, but it didn't really help. It
> looks like there could be some real power here, but I need some
> examples of what people have done with this to understand it.
>
> 1) Is this a better idea?
Yep.
> 2) Does anyone have some examples of programming the LonCapa
> spreadsheet?
Yep. (Pages 42-48 of the manual attempt to explain the spreadsheet)
Also searching for files that end in .spreadsheet should popup some
published examples that are out there.
> Option III
>
> If necessary, I can develop my own Excel Spreadsheets to do this.
> However, it seems like a clumsy approach, especially since I would need
> to do multiple data extractions from LonCapa to get both the number of
> tries and the current points awarded...
Most people have gone this way.
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