Assistment 0.8

http://assistment3.cs.wpi.edu
Assistment 0.8 has been released! This release has a lot of cool new features, and I'm so excited about them I'm actually going to show you screenshots and walk through them! Sorry, I don't have time to do a walk through now, but I will amend this post in the near future.

1.) Teacher Gradebook and Reports (Thanks Cody and Duc!)
2.) Effort Visualization (Thanks Elijah!)
3.) Content Feedback (Thanks Shane!)
4.) Content Ownership
5.) Curriculum Management (Thanks Shane!)

As always, please visit the SourceForge page to report defects or suggest new features.

https://sourceforge.wpi.edu/sf/projects/assistments

Release Candidate 1

All,

http://assistment3.cs.wpi.edu

There's a new release up there! Students can now tell what assignments they've completed/not-finished, the preview window now scrolls, and the student tutor has a fancy new look! There's other new changes in there, but I just can't remember right now.

Anyway, restarting assignments and smarter sequences/sections are on the horizon in the next couple days. As always, let me know of any issues you have. Thanks!

Want to preview Assistments?

You got it!

http://assistment3.cs.wpi.edu/

You'll notice all the content (assignment, sequence, assistment) you view as a content creator/teacher has a preview link next to it ... if you click on that you'll get a pop-up window that will let you preview the content.

If you think the pop-up is a little intrusive ... I agree with you, and I'm planning on using something like Lightbox (http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ ) to show the preview. Also, I'm aware the pop-up window doesn't have scroll bars ... sorry about that; ... I'll figure out why for the next release. If you have any other ideas, let me know.

To quickly address the "Fill in the blank" problem type, it actually should be just called "fill in" ... since it's only intended to be one box regardless of the number of possible answers. However, for the next update, I will make "fill in" work properly, and actually get what you all expect "fill in the blank" to be working.

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Problem Types

All,

http://assistment3.cs.wpi.edu

We now have problem types! These types are:

Multiple Choice (select 1 correct answer)
Multiple Multiple Choice (select all correct answers)
Rank
Fill in the blank
Algebra Evaluation

I've set upan Assistment called "Problem Type Test" so you can see these things inaction, so *just* create a teacher and student account and assign it toyourself to check it out. Sorry about the hoops you have to jumpthrough to see this, but when I enable previewing of Assistments thiswill be much easier! =)

As always, you can post bugs to SourceForge or email me directly.

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Assistment 3.0 "pre" Release Candidate 1

All,

http://assistment3.cs.wpi.edu

Assistment 3.0 preRC1 is live! This release includes:

1.) New 3.0 User Interface (Firefox tested only)
2.) Straight-forward creation of Assistments and how they are assigned to students
3.) Teacher Class/Assignments/Roster management, including multiple teachers in a class.
4.) Student Assignments and tutoring.
5.) User profile management

Mostly this release focused on refactoring and unit/functional testing. We have a lot of work going on in other branches, almost ready to be committed to the trunk. These features include:

1.) Knowledge Component/Transfer Models. (Thanks Abe)
2.) Non-linear options for dispatching Assistments to students (Thanks Derek)
3.) Problem Types (multiple choice, fill in, algebra equivalence, etc) (Thanks Danny for the algebra equiv)
4.) Assignment and Assistment reports (Thanks Duc)
5.) User account management for admins and teachers
6.) Assistment/Assignment searching
7.) Real content, including Assistments (Thanks Abe, Jozsef, and Igor)

We will release these features as they become available, so keep your eyes open for these. Please submit any bug reports/feature requests to https://sourceforge.wpi.edu/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.assistments/tracker.defects_releases (make sure to select "Pre Release Candidate 1" when submitting).

Enjoy :)

Assistment on Rails - Alpha

That's right people ... we have a blog! And what better way to kick off a first post than to announce the first version of Assistment! You can check it out at http://nth5.wpi.edu. The plan is to release something every week; next week will be a crazy amount of documentation. Yeah, I know, not as exciting :(

Feel free to comment here on any issues you find, or email me directly. Enjoy!

~Jimmy