> I like the folders. This just reminds me that I would like to see, when > present, a default markdown file (probably README.md) displayed below the > directory listing à la github. This would be a good place to put directions > for student assignments (particularly for students who find it taxing to > click on a directions file). > > Thank you. Or maybe there could even be a default HOMEWORKINSTRUCTIONS.md file whenever one explicitly creates a homework folder, which would have some boilerplate as in "This file contains instructions for the homework; please complete everything in this folder of your SMC project". I think this would certainly address most of my issue, which is that I don't usually think of an assignment as a folder, and my bet is neither would colleagues who are much less early-adopter than I am.
> On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 11:55:53 AM UTC-5, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:49 AM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Am I the only one who finds it really confusing that assignments and >> > handouts are always folders? >> >> Possibly. Nobody has ever once before complained about this in >> several years. No matter what we will provide "assignments as >> folders", so it's hard to imagine having two separate notions of >> assignments: folders *and* files, will make things actually less >> confusing. >> >> > I certainly like the *option* of having this, >> > but more typically in LMS one might give students access to a specific >> file. >> > I understand that with a directory structure then one can keep the >> > assignment info and the handed-in copy together neatly, but it still >> seems >> > odd to me (and confusing at first, even after reading various >> > documentation), and potentially confusing to students. But maybe >> that's >> > just me? >> >> It's possible. We really never had a complaint about this being >> confusing before, as far as I remember. >> >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "sage-cloud" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-cloud/9738eb17-10e9-4dc8-b044-605d7c8a353c%40googlegroups.com. >> >> >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Best Regards, >> William Stein >> >> CEO, SageMath, Inc. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-cloud" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-cloud/59090153-3314-4e78-8818-631d82f3d6f3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
