[LON-CAPA-users] Forcing students to submit valid expressions for formula responses.

[Peter Dencker]

Hi,

I changed the perl script of

'scl/dencker/testing/examples/simple syntax check 1.problem'

The first version is obsolete, written for another purpose.
Take always the current version ...

I know the following way to see the code:

'Course Editor' -> 'Published Resources' -> Import

Then you can choose on the top 'Display Options'.
Select 'Source Available' and 'Update Display'.
Then there will be a link to the 'Source Code'
to the right of the problem name.

I don't know whether there are other possibilities.

- Peter





On 10/31/2013 12:41 PM, Angus Findlay wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> Thank you for your help. Although I can see and try out your problem, and I
> can see that you are sharing your xml code, I don't see where I can see your
> xml code within the LON-CAPA environment.
> 
> Should I be able to copy your code and include it in a problem of mine for
> syntax checking? And if so, do I site the original code? (I am very new to
> LON-CAPA, and if there is a standard practice I would like to know what it
> is.)
> 
> Angus.
> 
> 
> On 13-10-30 7:50 PM, "Peter Dencker" <dencker at math.uni-luebeck.de> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't think that it is helpful to give hints for syntactically
>> correct but semantically incorrect submissions: How can one know
>> what the student means? Students have to learn to produce valid
>> expressions. One could write simple problems for that purpose and
>> a short manual.
>>
>> In my option using customresponse is the appropriate method.
>> You can find an example (source available) how to check your
>> mentioned most common syntax problems in
>>
>> 'scl/dencker/testing/examples/simple syntax check 1.problem'
>>
>> This example is a (hopefully correct) reduction of a more
>> ambitious library. The library has to be rewritten and is not finished
>> yet - to put it mildly. I will keep you informed ...
>>
>> - Peter
>>
>>
>> Am 21.10.2013 16:23, schrieb Angus Findlay:
>>> When I give students formula response questions some of them don¹t submit
>>> valid mathematic expressions. The most common problems are:
>>>
>>> 1) Not having balanced brackets. (i.e. number of left brackets do not match
>>> number of right brackets)
>>> 2) Including invalid characters, such as quotation signs.
>>> 3) Not including brackets, when necessary. (eg. 2^-1/2 instead of 2^(-1/2))
>>>
>>> I want to tell them that the expression is invalid, tell them why, and allow
>>> them to enter it again, without penalty. (Right now my LON-CAPA server times
>>> out on them, and asks them to try again later.)
>>>
>>> Is there a piece of standard code I can use for this, or if not, what it the
>>> easiest to implement a solution to this?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>> ----------------------------------------------
>>> Mr. Angus Findlay
>>> Math Department, Mount Allison University
>>> Sackville, New Brunswick
>>>
>>> email: afindlay at mta.ca    tel: 506-364-2592
>>> ----------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
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