In WeBWorK, everything is done in terms of "Courses". But at my university, individual teaching subjects are called "Units". The term "Courses", to us, is what I believe I known as "Programs" elsewhere.
So can I easily adjust WW so that the word "Courses" is replaced by "Units" wherever it appears to students?
Thanks,
Alasdair
Alasdair,
I think you could do this using the "localization" feature of WeBWorK. This is meant principally for language translation, but it could be used for this purpose. We already have en_us and en_uk dictionaries -- this kind of thing could be expanded. So I don't think this would be completely "easy" the first time at least but I would be curious to see if it would work for the purposes you describe.
A place with some description for adding a new dictionary (it's easy)
http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Localization
Let us know if something comes of this.
-- Mike
Thanks, Mike - I've had a look at the localization feature and this would work. In my case it's not so much a language issue as a terminology issue. I wonder if there might be some way of simply changing terminology in future versions of WW? This also might help internationalization, at least in the English-speaking world, where there's a huge range of names of things.
Thanks again,
Alasdair
Thanks again,
Alasdair
Is there a reason to create a separate mechanism for changing terminology in addition to language? The term "localization" usually encompasses more than " just language -- it often includes measurement units, local dialects and so forth. We could streamline documentation and make it clear that the dictionaries will change terminology as well, but unless there is a need I would be cautious about creating a new and separate mechanism for terminology.