Timestamp....arrrghhhhhh....tooo much! :) (good idea)
So it may be my random number generation method..as I say currently I can't
get a static random number.
On Friday, 30 June 2017 14:45:07 UTC+1, Mark S. wrote:
>
> It seems to me that you need a button to generate random numbers
> somewhere at the top of your testing process. The button would populate
> whatever random cells you want at the start. Then the rest of your test
> questions would draw from from those cells. That way the random process
> only occurs once and nothing changes as tiddlers are refreshed.
>
> As a side thought, if you had a start and stop button, then you could also
> save timestamps and see how long it too to complete the test.
>
> Mark
>
> On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 3:56:33 AM UTC-7, Stephen Wilson wrote:
>>
>> Ok...
>> I have looked at the wikify widget, then I looked some more...then I
>> tried to find some examples....then I looked confused...
>>
>> Right...so the full story.
>>
>> I am using
>> \define mylatex(a,b)
>> <$wikify name="doit" text="""
>> <$latex text="{$a$}+{$b$}" displayMode="true"></$latex>""" >
>> <<doit>>
>> </$wikify>
>> \end
>>
>>
>> <$macrocall $name="mylatex" a=<<eval1 datatiddler:"data" cell:"random3">>
>> b=<<eval1 datatiddler:"data" cell:"random4">> >
>> To put a random value into a LaTeX equation (via the KaTeX plugin).
>>
>> The random number is generated by
>> =@floor((@random() * 10) + 1)
>> and the eval1 macro is from the mathcell plugin.
>>
>> So far so good. Unfortunately, at every update the random number changes
>> and a different random number is generated for each tiddler that uses the
>> above code.
>> In an ideal world, I would want the SAME random number sent to multiple
>> tiddlers.
>>
>> This leads me to my problem.
>>
>> 1. I need to generate a random number which I can then insert into an
>> equation. DONE.
>> 2. Student reads equation and submits answer.
>> 3. Answer is compared to a list (generated by me) of 'correct' or
>> 'nearly' answers and appropriate feedback given.
>>
>> So if I generate the random numbers into their own tiddlers and then take
>> the number displayed in that tiddler back into another field just
>> containing that plain number I can then transclude that into my latex and
>> also perform more eval1 functions on it to generate answers which can then
>> be compared to student imput also using the eval1 macro....
>>
>> How hard can it be? *sobs*...
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, 19 June 2017 14:28:25 UTC+1, Ste Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll go have a look at the wikifi widget then I'll no doubt be back and
>>> will fill out the details.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>
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