WebMath, marking work

[June Lester]

>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:20:03 +0100 (BST)
>From: Chris Sangwin <sangwinc at for.mat.bham.ac.uk>
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>To: Paul Libbrecht <paul at activemath.org>, webmath at camel.math.ca
>Subject: WebMath, marking work
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>I have been sent the email below by a colleague who suggested I reply and
>let you know what is going on with the AIM computer aided assessment
>system at a number of Universities.  You may know this already.
>
>AIM is a CAA system based on Maple - so the sophistication of computer
>algebra is available to (i) generate random expressions, plots etc for
>questions, (ii) evaluate answers, and (iii) generate feedback based on the
>properties of answers. 
>
>I don't want to make this a long email - as I am writing out of the
>blue.  I have placed some information, links and publications in my
>webspace on
>
>http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/C.J.Sangwin/aim/
>
>I hope this is interesting - please do contact me if I can help further.
>
>Chris Sangwin
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>>  ------- Forwarded message follows -------
>>  Date sent:     	Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:57:19 +0200
>>  From:          	Paul Libbrecht <paul at activemath.org>
>>  To:            	webmath at camel.math.ca
>>  Subject:       	Re: WebMath: Survey
>>  Send reply to: 	webmath at camel.math.ca
>>
>>  Guillermo Alzuru wrote:
>>  > For years we (the Web Instructional Development department at 
>>University of
>>  > Georgia) have been creating equations using MATHTYPE to create the MATHML
>>  > code, then WebEQ to create applets. But it was not possible to truly test
>>  > students ability to solve math problems because they couldn't 
>>enter equations,
>>  > so all our tests were multiple choice, matching, etc, where you actually
>>  > provide the choices and all they had to do was pick the answers.
>>  >
>>  > Recently WebCT included an equation editor which should allow students to
>>  > enter equations, which should be a great solution to this 
>>problem, but we're
>>  > hesitant to use it until it doesn't get a lot better and proves 
>>to work well.
>>  >
>>  > I was wondering what other people at other institutions are doing to allow
>>  > students to answer questions by entering equations and solving 
>>problems step
>>  > by step.
>>
>>  Guillermo,
>>
>>  Dare I mention ActiveMath (http://www.activemath.org/) ?
>>
>>  We don't have the solution for a real user-friendly formula input yet...
>>  but we hope that it will come within a year or two (among others, it
>>  should allow copy-and-paste from content, and store "content"-markup,
>>  e.g. OpenMath or MathML).
>>
>>  Currently, as many other systems, we require exercises connected to a
>>  mathemtical system to input the result in the system's language. On our
>>  demo, you will find exercise applets connected to MuPad. Authoring them
>>  is pretty easy as soon as you know MuPad code (which is similar to Maple
>>  btw). We had a connection to Maple but license prevents us to present it
>>  publically.
>>
>>  More work is being done to provide a more elegant output (using MathML
>>  and rendering engines)... and to connect to other systems, especially
>>  open-source ones.
>>
>>  There's an obvious interest into connection to a mathemtical system:
>>  evaluation of results is much better.
>>
>>  If you have more interest, we could send you a copy, it shall be
>>  open-source for academia.
>>
>>  Paul
>>
>>  PS: you might also want to look at WIMS (http://wims.unice.fr/) which
>>  has a long tradition in connection to math-systems.
>  >
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