Re: [Qtitools-mathassess] MANum01

[Sue M. <su...@el...>]

Hi David,

Thanks for putting this together, we should talk about this at tomorrow's
call. It would be nice to have user-friendly feedback, especially where
authors and students are concerned...

Cheers
Sue

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David McKain [mailto:dm...@ph...]
>Sent: 05 March 2009 14:06
>To: Sue Milne
>Cc: 'Gary B Wills'; 'Jonathon Hare'; 'Leslie Fletcher'; 'Lester
>Gilbert'; 'Graham Smith'
>Subject: Re: MANum01
>
>Sue Milne wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> I was thinking of something along the lines of "The system is having
>trouble
>> interpreting your Maxima input; please check your code.", etc., where
>> exceptions are thrown because of authoring errors, and similarly for
>student
>> input. If a line number can be reported, so much the better...
>
>Hi folks,
>
>I've knocked up a quick Wiki page that hopefully enumerates all of the
>different failures that are possible in Maths questions, along with some
>notes on how things currently stand.
>
>https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/Physics/QTI-CAS+Failure+Handling
>
>This might be a useful basis for further discussion about future
>improvements.
>
>Cheers,
>D.
>
>--
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