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Re: EDUML (German Marking Algorithm)



Could your work or XML be used in anyway with Dr Geo ?
To keep record of progress by student, or as a data base exercise for Dr
Geo. Or anything else as open file format...


Bruno Vernier wrote:
> 
> 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)

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Hilaire Fernandes
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