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Overview
Supporting Systems
WebAssign
SCORM
Other Information
Adding Support
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If you want to be able to assign points and check whether students completed assignments, you
need to use PADs within a system that provides that functionality. Currently, there are two
ways to do this. You can import a PADs SCORM package that will allow you to use them in most Learning Management Systems such as Blackboard, Moodle, etc., that support SCORM content. Greater functionality can be obtained using the WebAssign Homework System
PADs were specifically designed to work within a web-based homework system.
They provide a way to overcome a significant shortcoming of most web-based
homework system: a lack of good ways for students to enter diagrams, graphs,
and motion. Graphs, diagrams and motion usually provide a more intuitive
way of representing physical entities than words, numbers and equations,
and making the connection between the former and the latter help develop
physical and mathematical understanding. The flexible grading methods
allow them to be used for a wide range of qualitative and quantitative
exercises. Their internal grading engines mean that they can be easily
incorporated in any html-based evaluation system; only a few JavaScript
functions must be added to any web page to incorporate them.
Notable aspects:
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Set values and tolerances of different parameters individually:
This allows PADs to function for any combination of conceptual and numerical
exercises. For example, a one exercise might require the user to
draw a graph with a specific y-intercept and slope, but another might require
the user to cause a car icon to simply move to the right, speeding up.
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Internal grading engine: the homework system does not need to know
specifics of how to grade the PAD to use it; but only how to querry if
it is correct and get the text representation of the points. However,
a homework system could evaluate the latter output directly, for greater
security.
Information about adding support to a system.
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