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topic started 5/3/2002; 11:03:54 AM
last post 5/6/2002; 4:26:48 AM

$user$ John Jones - Random practice user $blueArrow$
5/3/2002; 11:03:54 AM (reads: 982, responses: 1)

Hi,

I want to be able to have students come into WeBWorK as a practice user and if a particular practice user is already active, the system will automatically pick an available practice user slot. Whether or not this would be active would be controlled by (course specific) variable.

Before I do it, I just wanted to check on (1) has someone done this already? and (2) is this worthwhile to go into the WeBWorK core? I would code if differently if it was going to be for just our site.

John

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$user$ John Jones - Re: Random practice user $blueArrow$
5/6/2002; 4:26:48 AM (reads: 1194, responses: 0)

Hi again,

It occured to me that the first 3 screens one sees in WeBWorK don't have much use for a practice user. So, I made a script which logs the person in as a randomly choosen (available) practice user, and goes straight to the list of problem sets. The idea is that this can be put into a single link for students to click on when they want to practice. To try it at my site, open http://fym.la.asu.edu/cgi-bin/webwork/system/randPracticeLogin.pl?course=topics

If you want this script for your site, you can get it from

http://hobbes.la.asu.edu/webwork-stuff/

If it goes into the WeBWorK core, I can add a variable which disables it for sites that don't want this quick access available.

John

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