Re: [school-discuss] [Fwd: Homework Assignments]

[robin <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Loss wrote:

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> Subject: Homework Assignments
> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 11:18:35 -0400
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> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for an online homework assignment program, preferably as a
> stand alone installation or as a module of a courseware program that can
> be installed very easily by a non-professional.  Instrustions for most
> opensource courseware seem to omit critial steps or give inadequate
> instructions.

It depends on how sophisticated you want the program to be. Here is a 
very simple Perl script I used for homework assignments:

http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/upload-cgi.txt

Installation is fairly simple (just a matter of editing the indicated 
sections in the script, then uploading it to your cgibin directory and 
creating another directory to store files), but if you want it to be 
really secure, you need to create an htaccess password for each user, 
which is a pain (see comments at the top of the file).

Robin