Dear Sage-edu Members, I occasionally give my high-school students assignments in Sage, but have not found an effective way to track whether they're doing the work. Please share your thoughts.
My assignments complement the work in their textbooks. I publish a worksheet that the students edit. In the worksheet, I give an example, both in LaTeX (human language) and in Sage (computer language). The student adapts the example to do exercises from the text that the student also has to do by hand. My hope is that the complementary work will reinforce the concept. To check whether the students are doing the work, I've considered two ways that I know are possible but are not ideal. One is to ask the students on a quiz or test to write the Sage syntax for something in the assignment. A student who did the assignment should know the syntax. Another is to have each student "Share" with me his/her modified copy of my published worksheet. This solution would fill my Notebook with fifty worksheets for each assignment, and the Notebook doesn't have sophisticated sorting mechanisms. What I would like to be able to do next semester is for each student to have one worksheet, shared with me, in which he/she does all of the work for the semester. Whenever I wanted, I could check a student's progress. If I had all of the assignments prepared at the beginning of the semester, and gave up the option of modifying them, I could publish that one worksheet and would only have one fifty student worksheets in my notebook. That would be fine. What I would really like is a way to merge worksheets. Every few days I would post a new worksheet, and each student would merge it into his/ her existing worksheet, to which I already had access. I searched for "merged," and didn't find anything relevant, either in this group's discussions or on the web in general. Is there a way to merge worksheets? Other creative ideas for checking students' progress? Question? Comments? Pearls of Wisdom? Thanks, Brad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. 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-edu?hl=en.
