Just wanted to write in with another feature idea. It would be nice to have a way for all students to get the same seed numbers across each problem (without changing them manually for each student of course). For example, I created an ungraded problem set of review exercises, so there's no need for different versions. It would be nice if the students all had a single version of the set.
Thanks for all your hard work! Hope these feature requests don't come off sounding like criticisms...
Feature Request: same random number seed for all assigned students
by Debbie Yuster - Number of replies: 1
In reply to Debbie Yuster
Re: Feature Request: same random number seed for all assigned students
by Gavin LaRose -
Hi Debbie,
If (1) the problems are only in the set that one wants to have be the same for all students, and (2) one is able or willing to edit the problems in the set, this is easy enough to do just by specifying the seed in the problems or by creating problems that aren't randomized. The first can be done with a call to SRAND() at the beginning of the problem(s), which sets the seed; the second obviously just requires specifying fixed values for different questions in the problem(s).
Of course, these aren't as useful if the review assignment is drawn from the same problem bank as other assignments, because then the same problems need to both be randomized (for one set) and not (for the review set).
For what it's worth, in any event,
Gavin
If (1) the problems are only in the set that one wants to have be the same for all students, and (2) one is able or willing to edit the problems in the set, this is easy enough to do just by specifying the seed in the problems or by creating problems that aren't randomized. The first can be done with a call to SRAND() at the beginning of the problem(s), which sets the seed; the second obviously just requires specifying fixed values for different questions in the problem(s).
Of course, these aren't as useful if the review assignment is drawn from the same problem bank as other assignments, because then the same problems need to both be randomized (for one set) and not (for the review set).
For what it's worth, in any event,
Gavin