For people who are seriously interested into developing SAGE into a tool that can easily be used for teaching and/or student assignments, I warmly recommend that they look into LON-CAPA. It has the advantage that it is already based on open source technology. Maxima is already packaged with it for symbolic capabilities.
One simple integration I would imagine is tying SAGE into LON-CAPA's authentication system (or at least provide a plug-in to that effect). Presently, one big obstacle to offering SAGE as a tool for a largish class is the account management (together with the problems of running sage as a widely accessible service in a secure way) One could just say "use sagenb.org" in class, but I imagine that could end the offering of that service. There is going to be a LON-CAPA conference in May at SFU: http://www.sfu.ca/~capachem/conference/ There are some lecturers at SFU who are quite knowledgeable concerning LON-CAPA and may well be interested in seeing how SAGE and LON-CAPA could be integrated to advantage of both. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
