Re: Layouts for education?

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On 11/16/09, Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com wrote:
  I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
  AcroTex.

In the past there were a couple of discussions on the subject.
[1][2][3] Perhaps you can find something there.
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg66783.html
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg07159.html
[3] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg68567.html

Re: Layouts for education?

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On 11/16/09, Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com wrote:
  I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
  AcroTex.

In the past there were a couple of discussions on the subject.
[1][2][3] Perhaps you can find something there.
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg66783.html
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg07159.html
[3] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg68567.html

Re: Layouts for education?

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On 11/16/09, Myriam Abramson  wrote:
>  I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
>  AcroTex.
>
In the past there were a couple of discussions on the subject.
[1][2][3] Perhaps you can find something there.
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg66783.html
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg07159.html
[3] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg68567.html

Re: Layouts for education?

[Myriam Abramson]

I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
AcroTex. 


-- 
   myriam

John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca writes:

 --- On Sun, 11/15/09, Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com
 Subject: Layouts for education?
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Received: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 4:58 PM
 
 Is there any lyx layouts for educational purposes out
 there? 

 There probably are many but what kind of thing are you looking for?  
 Disertation layouts?  Lab report layouts?  Beamer type presentation layouts? 
 Test writing layouts?  ?? ?




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Re: Layouts for education?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 08:24 -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote:
 I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
 AcroTex. 
 

Depending on your requirements, standard layouts may work fine.  I've
always used the vanilla article form with multicol (when needed), and a
few small modifications kindly provided by people here if part of the
exam uses a Scantron and I want more than 5 answers.  I use all sorts of
problems on exams.



Kenward

-- 
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Re: Layouts for education?

[Steve Litt]

Myriam,

Whatever you decide on, please let me know. I have a math book on the back 
burner, and might bring it to the front if I can get good and easy ways to do 
quizzes. I'd especially like something with environments answer and 
answer_correct, which look the same unless a certain variable is set, in 
which case the correct answer stands out.

You might want to take a look at my making your own lists page at:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm

Again, please keep me in the loop.

SteveT


On Monday 16 November 2009 08:24:39 Myriam Abramson wrote:
 I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
 AcroTex.

Re: Layouts for education?

[Jason Waskiewicz]

Education layouts are one of the places where (so far) I find LaTeX superior to
LyX. You might consider an ordinary article class. Standard itemizing features
and branches will allow you to create a decent-looking quiz or test as well as
an answer key. That said, I have a LyX option and a LaTeX option for you:

On LyX, I use Phil Hirschhorn's Exam class:

http://www-math.mit.edu/~psh/#ExamCls

Somewhere I found a layout file, but it requires an enormous amount of ERT. I've
been trying to make a better layout file for the past few weeks, but I'm having
a lot of trouble with anything beyond the most basic features. The problems are
the nesting of lists, codes for point values, and now he has included a feature
for correct answers in multiple choice. (I had always used branches to
accomplish that. 

For most of my tests (except Calculus) I've turned to the Examdesign class which
I use only as pure LaTeX. It makes great answer keys, alternate test versions,
and it looks good. My ideal would be this one (combined with some nice features
from Hirschhorn's class).

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/examdesign/

This one probably won't work with LyX, no matter what. 

--Jason Waskiewicz
  Bowman County High School

Re: Layouts for education?

[Myriam Abramson]

I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
AcroTex. 


-- 
   myriam

John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca writes:

 --- On Sun, 11/15/09, Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com
 Subject: Layouts for education?
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Received: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 4:58 PM
 
 Is there any lyx layouts for educational purposes out
 there? 

 There probably are many but what kind of thing are you looking for?  
 Disertation layouts?  Lab report layouts?  Beamer type presentation layouts? 
 Test writing layouts?  ?? ?




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Re: Layouts for education?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 08:24 -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote:
 I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
 AcroTex. 
 

Depending on your requirements, standard layouts may work fine.  I've
always used the vanilla article form with multicol (when needed), and a
few small modifications kindly provided by people here if part of the
exam uses a Scantron and I want more than 5 answers.  I use all sorts of
problems on exams.



Kenward

-- 
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Re: Layouts for education?

[Steve Litt]

Myriam,

Whatever you decide on, please let me know. I have a math book on the back 
burner, and might bring it to the front if I can get good and easy ways to do 
quizzes. I'd especially like something with environments answer and 
answer_correct, which look the same unless a certain variable is set, in 
which case the correct answer stands out.

You might want to take a look at my making your own lists page at:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm

Again, please keep me in the loop.

SteveT


On Monday 16 November 2009 08:24:39 Myriam Abramson wrote:
 I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
 AcroTex.

Re: Layouts for education?

[Jason Waskiewicz]

Education layouts are one of the places where (so far) I find LaTeX superior to
LyX. You might consider an ordinary article class. Standard itemizing features
and branches will allow you to create a decent-looking quiz or test as well as
an answer key. That said, I have a LyX option and a LaTeX option for you:

On LyX, I use Phil Hirschhorn's Exam class:

http://www-math.mit.edu/~psh/#ExamCls

Somewhere I found a layout file, but it requires an enormous amount of ERT. I've
been trying to make a better layout file for the past few weeks, but I'm having
a lot of trouble with anything beyond the most basic features. The problems are
the nesting of lists, codes for point values, and now he has included a feature
for correct answers in multiple choice. (I had always used branches to
accomplish that. 

For most of my tests (except Calculus) I've turned to the Examdesign class which
I use only as pure LaTeX. It makes great answer keys, alternate test versions,
and it looks good. My ideal would be this one (combined with some nice features
from Hirschhorn's class).

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/examdesign/

This one probably won't work with LyX, no matter what. 

--Jason Waskiewicz
  Bowman County High School

Re: Layouts for education?

[Myriam Abramson]

I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
AcroTex. 


-- 
   myriam

John Kane  writes:

> --- On Sun, 11/15/09, Myriam Abramson  wrote:
>
>> From: Myriam Abramson 
>> Subject: Layouts for education?
>> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>> Received: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 4:58 PM
>> 
>> Is there any lyx layouts for educational purposes out
>> there? 
>
> There probably are many but what kind of thing are you looking for?  
> Disertation layouts?  Lab report layouts?  Beamer type presentation layouts? 
> Test writing layouts?  ?? ?
>
>
>
>
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Re: Layouts for education?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 08:24 -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote:
> I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
> AcroTex. 
> 

Depending on your requirements, standard layouts may work fine.  I've
always used the vanilla article form with multicol (when needed), and a
few small modifications kindly provided by people here if part of the
exam uses a Scantron and I want more than 5 answers.  I use all sorts of
problems on exams.



Kenward

-- 
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Re: Layouts for education?

[Steve Litt]

Myriam,

Whatever you decide on, please let me know. I have a math book on the back 
burner, and might bring it to the front if I can get good and easy ways to do 
quizzes. I'd especially like something with environments "answer" and 
"answer_correct", which look the same unless a certain variable is set, in 
which case the correct answer stands out.

You might want to take a look at my "making your own lists" page at:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm

Again, please keep me in the loop.

SteveT


On Monday 16 November 2009 08:24:39 Myriam Abramson wrote:
> I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using
> AcroTex.

Re: Layouts for education?

[Jason Waskiewicz]

Education layouts are one of the places where (so far) I find LaTeX superior to
LyX. You might consider an ordinary article class. Standard itemizing features
and branches will allow you to create a decent-looking quiz or test as well as
an answer key. That said, I have a LyX option and a LaTeX option for you:

On LyX, I use Phil Hirschhorn's Exam class:

http://www-math.mit.edu/~psh/#ExamCls

Somewhere I found a layout file, but it requires an enormous amount of ERT. I've
been trying to make a better layout file for the past few weeks, but I'm having
a lot of trouble with anything beyond the most basic features. The problems are
the nesting of lists, codes for point values, and now he has included a feature
for correct answers in multiple choice. (I had always used branches to
accomplish that. 

For most of my tests (except Calculus) I've turned to the Examdesign class which
I use only as pure LaTeX. It makes great answer keys, alternate test versions,
and it looks good. My ideal would be this one (combined with some nice features
from Hirschhorn's class).

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/examdesign/

This one probably won't work with LyX, no matter what. 

--Jason Waskiewicz
  Bowman County High School

Re: Layouts for education?

[John Kane]

--- On Sun, 11/15/09, Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com
 Subject: Layouts for education?
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Received: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 4:58 PM
 
 Is there any lyx layouts for educational purposes out
 there? 

There probably are many but what kind of thing are you looking for?  
Disertation layouts?  Lab report layouts?  Beamer type presentation layouts? 
Test writing layouts?  ?? ?




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Re: Layouts for education?

[John Kane]

--- On Sun, 11/15/09, Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com
 Subject: Layouts for education?
 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Received: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 4:58 PM
 
 Is there any lyx layouts for educational purposes out
 there? 

There probably are many but what kind of thing are you looking for?  
Disertation layouts?  Lab report layouts?  Beamer type presentation layouts? 
Test writing layouts?  ?? ?




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Re: Layouts for education?

[John Kane]

--- On Sun, 11/15/09, Myriam Abramson  wrote:

> From: Myriam Abramson 
> Subject: Layouts for education?
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Received: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 4:58 PM
> 
> Is there any lyx layouts for educational purposes out
> there? 

There probably are many but what kind of thing are you looking for?  
Disertation layouts?  Lab report layouts?  Beamer type presentation layouts? 
Test writing layouts?  ?? ?




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