mschneider

mschneider

Hi all,

I constructed a template to easily create Drag-and-Drop questions.

The steps below illustrate how to take the template file (labeling the Canadian Provinces) and adapt it to become a labeling of a velocity VS time graph (or whatever else you desire).

STEP 1) Prepare your image.

If you want to follow along, you can use the following image:  forceTimeGraphAnswers.jpg

-locate, create or modify an image that contains proper labels (this will be used to show students what the correct labeling was).

-Open the image in MS Paint.
-Be sure to size your image to less than 800px X 800px.
-Save the original labeled copy, for example “forceTimeGraphAnswers.jpg”.
-Use the eraser tool to scrub the answers from the image.

-Save your “scrubbed” image with a different filename, for example "forceTimeGraphBlank.jpg"

STEP 2) Open the Drag-and-Drop Temple.
-The file can be found shared on the Maple Cloud OR
-Here: Drag-and-Drop Template

STEP 3) Upload your images.
-Upload both images at the bottom of the question designer.

STEP 4) Copy the image URL.
-Double click on each image and copy the image URL from the Image Properties page.

STEP 5) Refer to the algorithm section of the question and modify Step 1 and Step 2.
-Paste each image URL into the appropriate place in the algorithm section of the question designer (Step 1 and 2 in the algorithm).

STEP 6) Remove the images from the question text.
-Remove the images from the question text. They were only placed into the question temporarily in order to attain a valid URL.

STEP 7) Open one of the images in MS-PAINT.

STEP 8) Refer to the Algorithm section of the question and modify Step 3 of the algorithm.
-The image size can be found at the bottom of the MS-PAINT window.

If you are following along, the image size should be 478px x 257 px

STEP 9) Record the positions of each label on the image.
-From within MS-Paint place your cursor over each are you want to drop answers onto and record the (x,y) pair from the bottom of the MS-PAINT window.
RECOMMENDED: Print a copy of your image so you can easily record the locations onto the paper.

STEP 10) Refer to the algorithm section of the question and modify Step 4 of the algorithm.

-record the (x,y) pairing and the name being dropped onto your image, for each and every response area.
*IMPORTANT: You must have at least 1 response area and no more than 10 total.

If you are following along, you should have values close to the following (notice values are approximate)
$answer1="Accelerate Quickly";
$answer1x=105;
$answer1y=21;
$answer2="No Acceleration";
$answer2x=208;
$answer2y=70;
$answer3="Slows down";
$answer3x=318;
$answer3y=41;
$answer4="Stopped";
$answer4x=347;
$answer4y=96;
$answer5="Speed Up (opposite direction)";
$answer5x=297;
$answer5y=206;
$answer6="Accelerate Slowly";
$answer6x=143;
$answer6y=172;

STEP 11) Delete any response areas and locations from the template that are not required .

If you are following along, you should delete the rest of the algorithm up to the start of Step 5.

STEP 12) This part is optional, refer to Step 5 of the algorithm.

-You can customize the amount of white space above your image (this is the blank space above your image where the answers are initially placed).

-You can customize the height and width of the drop-areas that appear on your image.

With enough practice you should be able to simply follow the 4-steps outlined within the comments on the template's algorithm.

ENJOY :)

Mark

mschneider

Thank-you so much, @Steen .

mschneider

@jmtrik I have been completely unsuccessful with loading js from external sources..

For example I am trying to load the following small bits of code.... In either the main question window, or if needed, in the HTML Response Type. It seems the external external source is not loading?

HTML:

<head>
<title>Plotting functions in JavaScript using the
function plot library</title>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>

script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js
script src="https://mauriciopoppe.github.io/function-plot/js/function-plot.js"

</head>
<body>
<div id="myFunction"></div>
</body>
</html>

CSS

div {

float: left;
}

#myFunction {
padding: 25px;
width: 250px;
height: 250px;
}

JS

var parameters = {

target: '#myFunction',
data: [{
fn: 'sin(x)',
color: 'red'
} ,
{
fn: 'cos(x)',
color: 'blue'
}
],
grid: true,
yAxis: {domain: [-1, 1]},
xAxis: {domain: [0, 2*Math.PI]}
};

functionPlot(parameters);

mschneider

@m.pattiruhu

To my knowledge there are only a few options:

1) The hard way: Design the question using HTML response areas. This is something that can definitely work, however my knowledge of the required HTML is too limited to throw together right away for you.

2) The easy way: use question chaining to construct a seperate question for each of the question parts (notice: you could then display all 4or5 questions on the same page of an assignment so they look like a single question with 4or5 parts). To accomplish this use the MapleGraded response type, such as... for question 4....

question1:=evalb(($response.MyAssignmentQ1.1.1)=($answerNumber1));
question2:=evalb(($response.MyAssignmentQ2.2.1)=($answerNumber2));
question3:=evalb(($response.MyAssignmentQ3.3.1)=($answerNumber3));
question4:=evalb(($RESPONSE)=($answerNumber4));
question1 and question2 and question3 and question4;

This will require students get full credit on all 3-prior answers as well as question4, in order to mark question 4 correct.

Thanks,

Mark

mschneider

Hello I am attempting to modify a Maple Worksheet, to work within MapleTA: The worksheet is here: resistorsWorksheet

-first of all I want to remove the visibility of the combo boxes on the right so that a student can only interact with the boxes on the left.

-second I would like a question that asks students the total resistance (in other words students use use the drop boxes on the left to control the colors and have to calculate the total resistance).

-third I would like a question that asks students the minimal resistance using the tolerance.

-fourth: obviously I need to hide the text under the resistor, otherwise students will see the answer.

-hoping the student responses will pass back to TA for grading.

Thanks for any help, my Maple "start up code" knowledge is very limited.

mschneider

I am attempting to build a question such as:

QUESTION:

Enter a function that is continuous on the interval [-10,10]?

ANSWERS:

To test the student response I used the following Maple code:

restart:
test2 := iscont($RESPONSE,x=-10..10);

PROBLEM: x/x is not continuous at x=0, so why is it accepting that answer?

mschneider

Hello I am having trouble using code from github in HTML questions.

For simplicity, I would like to use code from https://github.com/dionyziz/ca...

I cannot seem to get the game to display at all, I would think if I just link to the source files at the start of the JavaScript it should run, unfortunately it does not. I am finding this is happening with nearly all JS files I link to.

Any ideas?

Mark

mschneider

Thank-you for the response. I am not wanting to call the variables into Maple until desired (in other words not all together at the start).

The reasoning is User A might only have 3 defined answers to the particular question while user B might have 7 defined answers. I was hoping the for loop would gradually gather all the answers rather than having them defined at the start of the call to maple.

Mark

mschneider

I have some variables in MapleTA incrementally named:

----------------The below can be copied into MapleTA---------------

$numOFdefinedANSWERS=3;
$Answer1=4;
$Answer2=7;
$Answer3=15;
#etc.... this list can go on to an undetermined length, dependent on the person building the question (if more answers are added then the user will increment numOFdefinedANSWERS accordinginly)
#From here I am hoping to build a Maple call-out that will build an array of these MapleTA variables. At this point I am simply hoping to attain the last variable in the loop, from there I will build the array.

$maplecall=maple("
restart:
for i from 1 to $numOFdefinedANSWERS do
a:=$Answer||i
end do;
");

#Presently this call out seems to completely ignore the dollar sign... as "Answer3" is sent back to MapleTA, when I would like "15" sent back to TA.

#I tried to modify using this callout...

$MAPLE_call=maple("
restart;
with(StringTools);
for i from 1 to $numOFdefinedANSWERS do
a:=cat(Char(36),Answer,i)
end do;
");

# This Generates a string sent back to MapleTA, that a parse seems to not handle well either?

#Any ideas are appreciated?

mschneider

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