Re: EDUML (German Marking Algorithm)

[Bruno Vernier <vernier@vc.bc.ca>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 09:47:46PM +0100, Bill Tihen wrote:

> minusses) and out pops a grade as a number.  I am afraid this isn't very
> clear.  I could give an example, but perhaps I have just overlooked or
> don't understand how to read the XML very well.

It is not the XML that you are having trouble with :-)  The part of EDUML that 
concerns gradebook information is still pretty rough.  Considering it is 
taking 8 full committees for the SIP consortium to formulate appropriate 
XML element definitions for a planned full year  to cover the same territory 
that EDUML covers, it is not surprising that there are still lots of rough 
spots left :-)

Bruno

p.s. currently EDUML passes the calculation algorithms out to (as yet 
undefined) functions.  I guess this is a sort of mini API for mark 
calculations allowing any imaginable calculation method for marks.

So you (or someone else) can write a function for the german way of 
calculating in any language of your choice :-)

This idea is still rough and no proof-of-concept has yet been written (at 
least not by me and not announced here by someone else)