On 6/26/10 8:38 PM, Jason Grout wrote:
On 6/24/10 6:56 AM, Jonathan wrote:
+++I like it and would use it.
Jonathan
On Jun 23, 11:21 am, kcrisman<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear notebook group,
In our office hours for the PREP workshop, one participant had a very
interesting idea.
Namely, although it's nice that TinyMCE allows for nearly arbitrary
text input, the double-clicking is annoying, particularly in an
educational context where one might just want a student to enter an
answer the instructor could check. It would be nice to have a way to
put a text entry box between two computation cells, possibly via a
TinyMCE widget; currently someone using a worksheet either has to open
a whole TinyMCE instance to do this, or enter text into a computation
cell, neither of which is ideal.
For what it's worth, the participant said that Mathematica has
something like this, which he missed in using Sage. Is this something
desired and/or possible?
I am confused a bit by the wording above. You *can* put a text entry
box between two computation cells via a TinyMCE widget---just
shift-click on the blue line between the cells. How is the suggestion
above different than this? And how is entering text into a
computation cell or opening up a TinyMCE instance not ideal? (I'm
asking because I'm trying to figure out what exactly they have in mind
that is better, not because I'm disagreeing.)
Let me reply to my own question, based on examining some of the PREP
workshop worksheets.
What is desired is that the instructor can enter something like:
<some text and code cells explaining a concept>
<a question in a text cell>
<a space for the student to answer>
Currently, the last two things can be:
Explain the red blob in the picture
<blank code cell for the student>
or
Explain the red blob in the picture
Double-click to enter your answer
but then when the student double-clicks the "Double-click" line, it
opens up a TinyMCE text cell that includes the question and the answer.
So it seems like having the ability to have consecutive text cells would
help solve the issue. Then the instructor could say "Double-click to
enter your answer", and the double-click would only open the "answer"
text cell. Additionally, we could have multiple types of text cells.
The instructor could insert a dynamic always-editable text field as a
text cell, that would be saved on blur (i.e., when a user left the
cell). This would basically be like a code cell for an answer, but
would be a text cell instead.
So I'd vote for turning this feature request into a request for a way to
have consecutive text cells saved in a worksheet as separate text
cells. This would probably involve a worksheet format change.
Thanks,
Jason
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