Google summer of code projects

Goggle summer of code projects

A place to list projects that might be work as "Goggle summer of code projects". Write a short summary -- and if you wish create a new wiki page for more details.

• Project: Data mine WW database. Write software that allows one to determine which WeBWorK projects are hard, which ones are defective? which ones are effective?
  • The basic plan would be to data mine the databases existing at each site to catalog questions that have an unusual number of wrong attempts before the question is answered correctly. This requires software to do the preliminary extraction and then software to make it fairly easy for humans to analyze the questions and determine what causes the large number of wrong attempts. Bad question wording? just hard? used in inappropriate course? How to determine effectiveness is even more nebulous -- although that is what would most like to know. Another statistic might be which questions are most widely used? A flexible tool that allowed asking many related questions would be most useful.
  • Add other statistical questions here:
  • Preliminary plan of attack: Data_mine_good_questions

• Related project: User interface for question statistics. Develop user interface software that mapped collection of statitical metadata about questions described above onto the NationalProblemLibrary and Library browser so that instructors would have this information easily available as they chose questions for their classes. This would probably involve perl programming to interoperate properly with the existing WW course management interface.

Rules

• Be creative
• Be specific: what do you want to be implemented
• If you are willing to mentors those ideas, add your name and email to the idea.
• It is ok to have a project idea without parent project
• If you're an interested student, add your name and email next to the idea. It is ok to have several students interested by one idea.
• Aspiring students and mentors need to register and submit their proposals or request on the Soc app

Ideas

Instructor interface

Title	Project	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Possible mentor(s)	Comments	Potential student(s)
Your project title here e.g. Cure world hunger	Your project link here (optional)e.g. Google_summer_of_code_projects GSoC	Your project description here. Be as precise and specific as possible. Link to bugs...	Your name here	Your Possible mentors here	Your additional comments	Potential/interested students
Question statistics interface		Create a useful instructor interface to question statistics in the library (making question choices easier), a more useful analysis and display of student progress, with graphs, alerts? Modify the "success indicator" so that it has more meaning.	MEG	Pizer, Aubrey	--	--

Database reorganization

Title	Project	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Possible mentor(s)	Comments	Potential student(s)
Your project title here e.g. Cure world hunger	Your project link here (optional)e.g. Google_summer_of_code_projects GSoC	Your project description here. Be as precise and specific as possible. Link to bugs...	Your name here	Your Possible mentors here	Your additional comments	Potential/interested students

Integrity unit tests/ installation aids

Title	Project	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Possible mentor(s)	Comments	Potential student(s)
Your project title here e.g. Cure world hunger	Your project link here (optional)e.g. Google_summer_of_code_projects GSoC	Your project description here. Be as precise and specific as possible. Link to bugs...	Your name here	Your Possible mentors here	Your additional comments	Potential/interested students

PG language

Title	Project	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Possible mentor(s)	Comments	Potential student(s)
Your project title here e.g. Cure world hunger	Your project link here (optional)e.g. Google_summer_of_code_projects GSoC	Your project description here. Be as precise and specific as possible. Link to bugs...	Your name here	Your Possible mentors here	Your additional comments	Potential/interested students
Combine matrix objects		The MathObjects matrices (really matrix valued functions) and the CPAN Matrix objects have similar but not identical syntax and capabilities. Implement all of the CPAN Matrix functionality under the MathObject front end in order to reduce confusion	MEG	Gage, Cervone	-	-

National Problem Library projects

Title	Project	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Possible mentor(s)	Comments	Potential student(s)
Your project title here e.g. Cure world hunger	Your project link here (optional)e.g. GSoC	Your project description here. Be as precise and specific as possible. Link to bugs...	Your name here	Your Possible mentors here	Your additional comments	Potential/interested students

Data mining / guided instruction

Title	Project	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Possible mentor(s)	Comments	Potential student(s)
Your project title here e.g. Cure world hunger	Your project link here (optional)e.g. Google_summer_of_code_projects	Your project description here. Be as precise and specific as possible. Link to bugs...	Your name here	Your Possible mentors here	Your additional comments	Potential/interested students
WW question review	Data_mine_good_questions	Develop software and methods to determine which are the best, most used or most effective questions. (which are least?)	MEG	Gage, Aubrey, Pearson	--	--

CMS (Blackboard, Moodle, Angel?) integration projects

Title	Project	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Possible mentor(s)	Comments	Potential student(s)
Your project title here e.g. Cure world hunger	Your project link here (optional)e.g. [Google_summer_of_code_projects GSoC]	Your project description here. Be as precise and specific as possible. Link to bugs...	Your name here	Your Possible mentors here	Your additional comments	Potential/interested students