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From: Manolis M. <M.M...@ed...> - 2003-12-11 18:08:20
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There is something wrong again with the maths-physics site and the pages don't apper. I tried to go from the aimmath,sourceforge.net but nothing there as well .. and the home page from the sourceforge/projects/aimmath point to aiminfo.net ? I often found a problem with the pages and whoever I send to look for them and register come back to me after a while complaining that they are not there. Is there a more general problem with hosting or is it again today by concidence that I tried to look ? Something like this could put people off ... Thanks, Manolis |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-11-29 20:42:35
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Bugs item #851291, was opened at 2003-11-29 20:42 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=851291&group_id=44411 Category: Admin Interface Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Sorting by name on quiz results page Initial Comment: When sorting by name all CAPITALIZED names starting with a particular letter appear before all other names with the same starting letter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=851291&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-11-16 14:24:21
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Bugs item #803750, was opened at 2003-09-10 14:03 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gustav_delius You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=803750&group_id=44411 Category: Admin Interface Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: No value for "PartLabel" supplied following Results link Initial Comment: When I follow the "Results" links next to a question on the quiz admin page, I get the error message: Error, (in aim/admin/GetParameter) No value for "PartLabel" supplied Note, this is only for the "Results" for the individual question, the "Results" link for the whole quiz at the top of the page is working fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Date: 2003-11-16 14:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=737246 Fixed by changing two lines in admin/Quiz.mpl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Date: 2003-09-12 21:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=737246 This is currently our only open bug. Is it real? Can any of you reproduce it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=803750&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-11-08 22:25:44
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Bugs item #838589, was opened at 2003-11-08 22:25 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=838589&group_id=44411 Category: Marking Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 6 Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: ReMarkQuestion for multi-part questions Initial Comment: The method ReMarkQuestion in aim/Quiz does not work for multi-part questions. The reason is simply that the code for this method was not extended when Neil introduced multi-part questions this summer. It would be extremely useful to have this though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=838589&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-11-08 21:53:53
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Bugs item #821823, was opened at 2003-10-11 16:19 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by npstrick You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=821823&group_id=44411 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 7 Submitted By: Neil Strickland (npstrick) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Invisible images Initial Comment: I have some questions that involve dynamically generated images (produced by p> plot(...), and handled by the `aim/ImageCache` class). A significant number of students have reported that they cannot see the images: their browser indicates that the expected gif file cannot be downloaded. I have not been able to reproduce this behaviour. It may possibly be caused by different Maple processes messing up each other's images, but that is just a guess. The code is supposed to prevent that from happening, anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Neil Strickland (npstrick) Date: 2003-11-08 21:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=430681 The problem can be fixed in practice by increasing the timeout in the Clean method of the ImageCache class from 600 to 6000 seconds. This means that the relevant images must get deleted by the Clean method. That method only deletes unlocked images, so the code that should lock the relevant images must be broken. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Greg Gamble (gregg0) Date: 2003-10-12 03:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=766524 At least some of the time this is caused by a student clicking a link within the page before it has fully downloaded. This may be a problem restricted to Internet Explorer (possibly an IE bug?) It's only come up for me very occasionally, and I've worked around it by generating the same page as administrator and copying the .gif to the right name (after scanning the source .html for the student's page) in the imagecache/ directory. Sometimes the students can help themselves by backing out and re-entering the quiz. Possibly, if they hit `Validate' and waited for a full download the whole page would be regenerated ... but I haven't tested that idea. I don't think it's the result of clashing Maple processes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=821823&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-11-08 21:40:47
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Bugs item #838569, was opened at 2003-11-08 21:40 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=838569&group_id=44411 Category: Admin Interface Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Neil Strickland (npstrick) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: marking status reported incorrectly Initial Comment: The quiz review page reports all attempts that a student made at a particular question, whether each attempt was valid, and whether the student asked for each attempt to be marked (or merely validated). In some circumstances, the page reports that the student asked for an attempt to be marked, when in fact they did not. (I think this only ever happens for the most recent attempt, but I am not sure about that.) In these cases, the overall mark for the question is also reported incorrectly on the review page, as is the total mark for the quiz. On the other hand, all marks appear to be reported correctly on the quiz page seen by the student, and also on admin pages that show results for all students. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=838569&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-22 11:30:20
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Bugs item #827810, was opened at 2003-10-21 17:17 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by monks You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=827810&group_id=44411 Category: Marking Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed Priority: 8 Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: error message when student enters sequence Initial Comment: When the student enters an answer with a comma in it but without curly braces, like for example (1,2) or 1,2 then the system does not give a syntax warning but instead gives the error page: There was an untrapped error while processing your command. wrong number (or type) of parameters in function type This happens surprisingly often in practice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ken Monks (monks) Date: 2003-10-21 22:32 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=766386 I posted a fix for this in aim/TextQuestion.mpl just now. Let me know if that doesn't entirely cure it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=827810&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-22 02:32:44
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Bugs item #827810, was opened at 2003-10-21 17:17 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by monks You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=827810&group_id=44411 Category: Marking Group: None Status: Open >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 8 Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: error message when student enters sequence Initial Comment: When the student enters an answer with a comma in it but without curly braces, like for example (1,2) or 1,2 then the system does not give a syntax warning but instead gives the error page: There was an untrapped error while processing your command. wrong number (or type) of parameters in function type This happens surprisingly often in practice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Ken Monks (monks) Date: 2003-10-21 22:32 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=766386 I posted a fix for this in aim/TextQuestion.mpl just now. Let me know if that doesn't entirely cure it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=827810&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-21 22:02:20
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Bugs item #827810, was opened at 2003-10-21 21:17 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=827810&group_id=44411 Category: Marking Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 8 Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: error message when student enters sequence Initial Comment: When the student enters an answer with a comma in it but without curly braces, like for example (1,2) or 1,2 then the system does not give a syntax warning but instead gives the error page: There was an untrapped error while processing your command. wrong number (or type) of parameters in function type This happens surprisingly often in practice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=827810&group_id=44411 |
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From: Gustav W D. <gw...@yo...> - 2003-10-15 15:25:47
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Dear Ken, dear Greg, thank you very much for fixing the latex/latex/float bug so quickly Gustav ---------------------------------------- Dr Gustav W Delius, Department of Mathematics University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom Tel.: +44 (1904) 433 077, Fax.: +44 (1904) 433 071, office: G/110 http://www.york.ac.uk/mathematics/physics/delius/ |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-15 15:02:00
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Bugs item #823941, was opened at 2003-10-15 03:33 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by monks You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=823941&group_id=44411 Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: bug in latex/latex/float Initial Comment: There is a bug in latex/latex/float exemplified by the following question: name> test h> Digits=14 t> type in $1.0123456789012$ s> [ans->`aim/TestNumeric` (ans,1.0123456789012,`sf`=14),1.0123456789012] end> This will print that the teacher's answer was 1.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Ken Monks (monks) Date: 2003-10-15 11:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=766386 I fixed this bug and posted the changes to aim/LaTeX.mpl to CVS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Greg Gamble (gregg0) Date: 2003-10-15 05:42 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=766524 Of course, you meant h> Digits := 14 Anyway, after starting up Maple and reading Console.mpl, I've tried the sequence: Digits := 14; latex(1.0123456789012); and confirm your findings with the current development version of AIM. However, with an earlier AIM I still have running, the correct value is given. So the bug is in the AIM 3 overriding definition of `latex/latex/float`. The reason you only get the one decimal place is because there is another AIM-defined variable LaTeXDigits which is by default 3 (maybe there ought to be two decimal places? ... is the decimal point counted as a digit?). As to why you get 1.1 and not 1.0, the clue is in that the function splits off the integer part. What's left starts with a 0 and Maple takes the number 0123 to be the same as 123. The function hasn't taken that into account and only works correctly when the first decimal place is non-zero. I'll see if I can put together a fix. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=823941&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-15 09:42:45
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Bugs item #823941, was opened at 2003-10-15 15:33 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gregg0 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=823941&group_id=44411 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: bug in latex/latex/float Initial Comment: There is a bug in latex/latex/float exemplified by the following question: name> test h> Digits=14 t> type in $1.0123456789012$ s> [ans->`aim/TestNumeric` (ans,1.0123456789012,`sf`=14),1.0123456789012] end> This will print that the teacher's answer was 1.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Greg Gamble (gregg0) Date: 2003-10-15 17:42 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=766524 Of course, you meant h> Digits := 14 Anyway, after starting up Maple and reading Console.mpl, I've tried the sequence: Digits := 14; latex(1.0123456789012); and confirm your findings with the current development version of AIM. However, with an earlier AIM I still have running, the correct value is given. So the bug is in the AIM 3 overriding definition of `latex/latex/float`. The reason you only get the one decimal place is because there is another AIM-defined variable LaTeXDigits which is by default 3 (maybe there ought to be two decimal places? ... is the decimal point counted as a digit?). As to why you get 1.1 and not 1.0, the clue is in that the function splits off the integer part. What's left starts with a 0 and Maple takes the number 0123 to be the same as 123. The function hasn't taken that into account and only works correctly when the first decimal place is non-zero. I'll see if I can put together a fix. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=823941&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-15 07:33:22
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Bugs item #823941, was opened at 2003-10-15 07:33 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=823941&group_id=44411 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: bug in latex/latex/float Initial Comment: There is a bug in latex/latex/float exemplified by the following question: name> test h> Digits=14 t> type in $1.0123456789012$ s> [ans->`aim/TestNumeric` (ans,1.0123456789012,`sf`=14),1.0123456789012] end> This will print that the teacher's answer was 1.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=823941&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-12 03:09:35
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Bugs item #821823, was opened at 2003-10-12 00:19 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gregg0 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=821823&group_id=44411 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 7 Submitted By: Neil Strickland (npstrick) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Invisible images Initial Comment: I have some questions that involve dynamically generated images (produced by p> plot(...), and handled by the `aim/ImageCache` class). A significant number of students have reported that they cannot see the images: their browser indicates that the expected gif file cannot be downloaded. I have not been able to reproduce this behaviour. It may possibly be caused by different Maple processes messing up each other's images, but that is just a guess. The code is supposed to prevent that from happening, anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Greg Gamble (gregg0) Date: 2003-10-12 11:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=766524 At least some of the time this is caused by a student clicking a link within the page before it has fully downloaded. This may be a problem restricted to Internet Explorer (possibly an IE bug?) It's only come up for me very occasionally, and I've worked around it by generating the same page as administrator and copying the .gif to the right name (after scanning the source .html for the student's page) in the imagecache/ directory. Sometimes the students can help themselves by backing out and re-entering the quiz. Possibly, if they hit `Validate' and waited for a full download the whole page would be regenerated ... but I haven't tested that idea. I don't think it's the result of clashing Maple processes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=821823&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-11 16:19:58
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Bugs item #821823, was opened at 2003-10-11 16:19 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=821823&group_id=44411 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 7 Submitted By: Neil Strickland (npstrick) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Invisible images Initial Comment: I have some questions that involve dynamically generated images (produced by p> plot(...), and handled by the `aim/ImageCache` class). A significant number of students have reported that they cannot see the images: their browser indicates that the expected gif file cannot be downloaded. I have not been able to reproduce this behaviour. It may possibly be caused by different Maple processes messing up each other's images, but that is just a guess. The code is supposed to prevent that from happening, anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=821823&group_id=44411 |
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From: Ken M. <mo...@pt...> - 2003-10-08 14:28:16
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I wrote to Hutchinson about the difference in formatting between TtH 3.30 and 3.40. He said: -------------------------------- Hi, Thanks for this email. I've been experimenting with adjustments to layout. I appreciate your vote for less compact form and will bear it in mind. Ian Hutchinson http://www.psfc.mit.edu/people/hutch/ -------------------------------- So the change was intentional, not a bug. However, I still think we should stick with version 3.30 in the distribution for the time being, because it is really much harder to read the more cramped 3.40 formatting in IE. KEN ----------------------------------------- Ken Monks - Professor of Mathematics University of Scranton Scranton, PA 18510 email: mailto:mo...@sc... web: http://www.scranton.edu/~monks ----------------------------------------- |
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From: Ken M. <mo...@pt...> - 2003-10-07 22:19:23
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I uploaded both the Windows and Linux distributions of TtH version 3.30 to the bin/tth_exe directory in the CVS archive. I also replaced the tth.exe and tth binaries in that directory with version 3.30. KEN > -----Original Message----- > From: aim...@li... > [mailto:aim...@li...]On Behalf Of Neil > Strickland > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:19 PM > To: Aim Developers > Subject: RE: [Aimmath-developers] problems with tth v3.40 > > > I've also had trouble with this, but I didn't realise that it was > a TtH version issue. Ken, do you still have a copy of version 3.30? > If so, please send me a copy; it isn't available from the TtH site > any more. > > Neil > > > I upgraded from tth version 3.30 to 3.40 today and noticed that > > some things > > that used to format nicely no longer do so. For example, see > the attached > > jpg images of the same expression formatted with version 3.30 and 3.40. > > Both were compiled using no command line switches to tth and > > rendered in IE > > 6.0 under windows. The newer version doesn't put any space > aound the '+' > > signs so they start to blend in with the fraction bars. I also > > noticed this > > cramped horizontal spacing in eqnarray* environments with the > new version. > > In some AiM questions this problem makes the expressions almost > impossible > > to read. > > > > My questions are: > > 1. Does anyone know why this is, i.e. is it bug or is it by design? > > 2. Should we distribute version 3.30 instead of 3.40 with the AIM > > distribution? (Currently we have version 3.40 in the distribution). > > > > Thoughts? > > > > KEN > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Aimmath-developers mailing list > Aim...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aimmath-developers > |
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From: Neil S. <N.P...@sh...> - 2003-10-07 21:19:58
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I've also had trouble with this, but I didn't realise that it was a TtH version issue. Ken, do you still have a copy of version 3.30? If so, please send me a copy; it isn't available from the TtH site any more. Neil > I upgraded from tth version 3.30 to 3.40 today and noticed that > some things > that used to format nicely no longer do so. For example, see the attached > jpg images of the same expression formatted with version 3.30 and 3.40. > Both were compiled using no command line switches to tth and > rendered in IE > 6.0 under windows. The newer version doesn't put any space aound the '+' > signs so they start to blend in with the fraction bars. I also > noticed this > cramped horizontal spacing in eqnarray* environments with the new version. > In some AiM questions this problem makes the expressions almost impossible > to read. > > My questions are: > 1. Does anyone know why this is, i.e. is it bug or is it by design? > 2. Should we distribute version 3.30 instead of 3.40 with the AIM > distribution? (Currently we have version 3.40 in the distribution). > > Thoughts? > > KEN > |
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From: Ken M. <mo...@pt...> - 2003-10-07 21:04:10
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I upgraded from tth version 3.30 to 3.40 today and noticed that some things
that used to format nicely no longer do so. For example, see the attached
jpg images of the same expression formatted with version 3.30 and 3.40.
Both were compiled using no command line switches to tth and rendered in IE
6.0 under windows. The newer version doesn't put any space aound the '+'
signs so they start to blend in with the fraction bars. I also noticed this
cramped horizontal spacing in eqnarray* environments with the new version.
In some AiM questions this problem makes the expressions almost impossible
to read.
My questions are:
1. Does anyone know why this is, i.e. is it bug or is it by design?
2. Should we distribute version 3.30 instead of 3.40 with the AIM
distribution? (Currently we have version 3.40 in the distribution).
Thoughts?
KEN
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Ken Monks - Professor of Mathematics
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510
email: mailto:mo...@sc...
web: http://www.scranton.edu/~monks
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From: Manolis M. <M.M...@ed...> - 2003-10-06 20:45:07
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I have added a feature request based on what Neil and Chris where discussing. [Neil,Chris: I hope you don't mind (if for any reason,we can delete it)] I think this feauture is relevant and useful for everybody. I named it multipart question analyser and I wrote some crude comments but IMHO I think we should continue this further before anything is implemented so as we can have something generic and really useful for everybody. The reason for putting it as a future request is to allow others to see this discussion (if you don't want to send comments using the form and if you don't mind I 'll add them there). For instance there is a student who will be working for his 4th year project on something on WALLIS (vagely his solution could be also used in AIM) so he would like to look feauture requests and I also think that we could open it for discussion in the main AIM forum and see what others think about it. Manolis Neil Strickland wrote: > Analysis of multipart questions has not yet been implemented. In cases > where the parts are strongly interdependent, it is not at all clear how > the analysis should work; any detailed thoughts on this question would > be appreciated. I may try to implement a very crude version if I have > time. > > Neil > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: aim...@li... >>[mailto:aim...@li...]On Behalf Of >>Chris Sangwin >>Sent: 06 October 2003 14:06 >>To: Aim Developers >>Subject: [Aimmath-developers] Analysis of multi-part questions. >> >> >> >>I've been using the new multi-part quetions with students today - all >>seems to work well, except for the analysis of the answers. For example, >>I can't obtain a list of all their answers yet. >> >>Can anyone help? >> >>Cheers >>Chris >> |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-06 20:28:41
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Feature Requests item #818856, was opened at 2003-10-06 20:28 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439482&aid=818856&group_id=44411 Category: Marking Routines Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Manolis Mavrikis (mavrikis) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: multipart questions analyser Initial Comment: Chris said that he has been using the new multi-part questions with students and all seems to work well, except for the analysis of the answers. "For example, I can't obtain a list of all their answers yet." Neil said that: In cases where the parts are strongly interdependent, it is not at all clear how the analysis should work; any detailed thoughts on this question would be appreciated. We 'll soon have to implemente the same facility in WALLIS but haven't really finalised its design yet so anything that comes out of this should be also interesting for us. The current course of action is to treat the parts of the questions as questions themselves and analyse them separately by roviding the variables involved from the previous part When they are very interconnected though we could as well show the whole question again as it happens now in the quiz review page. The same things would apply in the results summary page although things become more complicated ... in reality what we want to implement is an analysis that based on the variables in every multipart shows the same answers (so we are not talking about the actual syntax of the answer but it's potential answer based on the variables of the question) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439482&aid=818856&group_id=44411 |
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-06 19:10:45
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Feature Requests item #816610, was opened at 2003-10-02 14:30 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mavrikis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439482&aid=816610&group_id=44411 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Neil Strickland (npstrick) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Facilities for tutorial groups Initial Comment: It should be possible to record in the register which students are assigned to which tutorial groups. Email queries from students should be directed to their tutors. The entry page should remind students which group they are in, and where and when it meets. There should be facilities to handle requests for a change in tutorial groups. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Manolis Mavrikis (mavrikis) Date: 2003-10-06 19:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=767019 Isn't this a university-specific feature ? I agree in principal it's a good thing to have (and it could as well being used here in Edin) but I think that if we ever implement this it should be in a "plug-in" way which people can choose to use or not... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439482&aid=816610&group_id=44411 |
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From: Neil S. <N.P...@sh...> - 2003-10-06 13:27:07
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Analysis of multipart questions has not yet been implemented. In cases where the parts are strongly interdependent, it is not at all clear how the analysis should work; any detailed thoughts on this question would be appreciated. I may try to implement a very crude version if I have time. Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: aim...@li... > [mailto:aim...@li...]On Behalf Of > Chris Sangwin > Sent: 06 October 2003 14:06 > To: Aim Developers > Subject: [Aimmath-developers] Analysis of multi-part questions. > > > > I've been using the new multi-part quetions with students today - all > seems to work well, except for the analysis of the answers. For example, > I can't obtain a list of all their answers yet. > > Can anyone help? > > Cheers > Chris > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Aimmath-developers mailing list > Aim...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aimmath-developers > |
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From: Chris S. <san...@fo...> - 2003-10-06 13:06:17
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I've been using the new multi-part quetions with students today - all seems to work well, except for the analysis of the answers. For example, I can't obtain a list of all their answers yet. Can anyone help? Cheers Chris |
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From: Ken M. <mo...@pt...> - 2003-10-04 02:21:04
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I just committed a batch of changes to implement an answerboxsize> flag.
The abbreviation is as>.
This only affects Text questions, not MATRIX, MC, or MR.
as> w
sets the width of the <input> box for the student's answer to the
nonnegative integer w, and
as> w,h
uses a <textarea> element with w columns and h rows for the student's answer
instead. Specifying
as> 0
prevents any answer box from being displayed to the student.
There are three purposes for doing this.
First, I sometimes want to use AiM to ask the students a randomized question
that they are to write up on paper and hand in. In that situation we would
want to disable the input box to avoid confusion. For example,
v> 0
l> a,b,x
h> a,b:=Rand(Seq([2..9],2));
t> Prove that $f(x)=@a*x+b@$ is a continuous function. \\
\\
Write up your proof on paper and hand it in in class.
c> string
ap>
as> 0
a> ""
end>
Second, using a <textarea> box allows us to have a crude survey/essay
mechanism. For example,
v> 0
t> Essay: What is your opinion of AiM?
c> string
ap>
as> 40,5
a> ""
end>
To view the "results" of the survey, we can Analyze the question and ask it
to show the final answers (or rawanswers). I modified the appropriate
routines so that AiM preserves the formatting of the students' answers when
the answer is a string (so the essay doesn't get formatted as a single long
string).
Finally, this gives us a crude method of placing the answer input box in the
middle of an AiM question. Since we can include LaTeX and @-substitutions
in both the ap> and the pp> text, the trick is to use the ap> and pp>
prompts to actually write the surrounding text like this:
ap> Jack and{ }
as> 6
pp> went up the hill.
c> string
a> "Jill"
end>
To accommodate this "trick" I also modified the behavior of AiM when the
student shows solutions, so that it still shows the
answerprompt-answerbox-postprompt line, but with the answerbox disabled
(i.e. they can't type in it) and it's background color changed to grey.
This allows the students to see their last raw answer in addition to their
last LaTeX'ed answer as parsed and simplified by Maple, which is useful in
cases where the mark the quiz by clicking Show Solutions.
KEN
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University of Scranton
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