Hi. I asked questions about this many years ago and have not kept up with the developments. However, searching around I see that the WebWork crew was at Sage Edu 5 and so more work may be happening and I am hoping someone reading this list knows what my best options might be. Ever since I left a school that was using MapleTA I have been looking for an open source (preferred) or at least not ridiculously expensive way to write my own online quizzes that can process mathematical answers (for example considering -3/2 x - 6 = y and -9/6(x+2) - 3 = y as both being correct answers to the question asking for the equation of the line through the points (-2,3) and (4,-6)) --- sage could easily test that the two equations are mathematically the same --- or I think it could). For example, I have often wondered about linking Moodle and Sage --- Moodle already has nice course management set up and their general quiz capabilities are good, but there is no way to process mathematical answers and, as noted above, I think Sage could fill that void.
With my apologies to the WebWork folks, but that system is very difficult to use for someone who wants to write their own questions rather than point and click and select from their repository (I have tried). Unfortunately, I am not aware of alternatives, but writing questions in Moodle is really easy and if it was married to Sage so that answers can be processed, that would be fabulous. Maybe someone knows of other options or knows how to marry Moodle and Sage, or thinks this is a good idea? I don't have the background to make it happen. I can only hope. (I only mention Moodle because of personal experience and I know it is open source, or it was and many other course management systems are not and what would be great is a full course management system with the desired quiz/test capabilities). Thanks, Amelia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
