[LON-CAPA-users] which texts play well with loncapa

James A. Mueller lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:35:06 -0500


Well the textbook reps have started to come by to inform us about new
editions (continuing the upgrade cycle) of their calculus based
textbook.  This raises a question: Which textbooks play well with
loncapa?  We are currently using Young and Freedman, which has no
loncapa problems (although they do have their own proprietary system).
For the algebra-based sequence, we use Cutnell and Johnson, which does
have some problems in /res/wiley/cutnell, but these problems are
terrible!  They throw errors, sometimes the answers are not even
correct, and in general are useless.  Since we are going to have to
decide which will be the new "official" textbook, what information
should we bring to the table as far as loncapa compatibility is
concerned.