Re: [school-discuss] On-line quizzes...

[Jeffrey Elkner <jeff@elkner.net>]

Thanks, Mark and Aigars.  Whiteboard looks promising, and unless I can
find a Zope solution, I will give that a try.  I wanted a Zope solution
if possible simply because I already use Zope, my students have
accounts, and all I need is to integrate tests/quizzes into it.

Whiteboard will require separate accounts (or some way to integrate
users with the Zope users - through mySQL perhaps?), but it appears to
be a mature project that does everything we need it to do.

Thanks again!


On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 07:21, Schmitt, Mark wrote: 
> Jeff,
> 
> I currently use a program called WeBWorK for on-line homework and quizzes.
> The homepage for the project is http://webwork.math.rochester.edu In my high
> school, it is used mainly for homework, but I helped install it at a local
> university as a secure computer-based testing system for a large lecture
> geology course.
> 
> I know that a professor at Ohio State University has written an interface
> with Moodle (an open source Course Management System), which he uses to do
> quizzes.  
> 
> The big downside to WeBWorK is that problems (questions) are coded in perl,
> so for complicated situations, knowledge of perl is required.  The good news
> is that for straightforward T/F, multiple choice, matching and
> fill-in-the-blank style questions, I have a web-based script to generate the
> problem code.  If you would like help setting things up, feel free to let me
> know.
> 
> 
> Mark Schmitt
> Detroit Country Day School



On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 08:13, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:

> On 23 May 2003 07:08:15 -0400, Jeffrey Elkner <jeff@elkner.net> wrote:
> 
>> I need to make a decision fairly soon about how best to prepare
>> on-line quizzes and tests for next year's AP Computer Science
>> curriculum.  Our school system has purchased Blackboard.com software,
>> which works very well for what I want to do but is not free and would
>> make it difficult to share with folks outside our school system.
> 
> How about Whiteboard?
> 
> http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net/

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Jeffrey Elkner <jeff@elkner.net>
Open Book Project <http://ibiblio.org/obp>