On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:20 AM, pang <pablo.ang...@uam.es> wrote: > > Hello: > I'm now learning moodle as admin, and I would like to use another > kind of moodle integration, just to control access to the sage server > and to organize the notebooks. I have the following reasons: > > 1) Security: I've been told sage servers can be taken down if > universal access is allowed. If I want a secure enough sage server > without constant monitoring and my limited admin experience then I'd > have to create one accounts for each student myself and mail them the > passwords or what?. Moodle has many ways to deal with this problem, > like the password for enrollment, so that students can create their > own accounts.
Others can comment much more expertly than I. However, I can tell you that several people have posted security suggestions to the ssage wiki. You might want to check there. > > 2) Organization and sharing: sage notebooks aren't organized in > folders and they aren't attached to a calendar. They all appear in a > single long list. If I want to place a notebook at a particular moment > of a course, I can think of two approaches: > * Using the sharing capabilities of sage: I would publish a notebook > in sage, then students would edit a copy or create other notebooks, > and share them with me. Occasionally, I would publish some of the > students' notebooks. This all happens outside moodle, though I could I think if you publish a notebook session then it is "owned" by your account. The student would have to create a new worksheet to share it with you. When I give an assignment, I just tell the students to share it with me or download their sws file and email it to me. > post links to the notebooks in the moodle pages. E.g., a student could > write a post in a forum with a link to the notebook she's just > published. > * Upload the sws files into moodle. Then if students want to show me > their notebooks, they can either send their sws files as assignments, > or place their files in the public forums if they want to share their > work with the other students. They'd have to keep two separate tabs, > one for moodle and the other for sage, each with a different login. > > This is all possible, but some integration would make it simpler, and > reduce dramatically the number of clicks. Something like this: a > student logs into moodle, goes to the course page, sees the new > activity "linear algebra with sage" for this week, clicks on it to go > directly to the sage notebook and saves it when she's done. I could > see the list of notebooks of any one student, and edit them to add > comments. When a student sees the list of her notebooks, she knows > which ones I have modified. Just this would make a difference for me. I don't know if this is possible or not but I think it woul dbe great if you could post any experience you have on sage-edu. > > I'll be teaching with sage next year for the first time, so please > tell me if this makes sense to you. > > Regards, > Pablo Angulo > > PS: google doesn't allow me to send emails normally for some obscure > reason. I have to login and post from the web browser: does any of you > have this problem? No I have not heard of that problem before. However, it appears that you replied to a sage-edu post on sage-devel. (My emailed grouped this message in the same thread as the others anyway.) I wonder if that is the problem somehow? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
