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Adding (image) files to question responses #48

Open twjudson opened 2 years ago

twjudson commented 2 years ago

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Currently, when students answer a reading question in say, Beezer's linear algebra text or Judson's abstract algebra text, they can only reply in text or LaTeX. It's not reasonable to provide the sketch of a graph or a lattice.

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It would be nice if students could upload PDF (and similar formats) images with their answer.

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rbeezer commented 2 years ago

Found this before I made a duplicate! ;-) More suggestions for this at Summer 2022 workshop in Ann Arbor. Could have just been @twjudson again, but perhaps Matt Boelkins? Pretty easy foir a studnt to get a good PDF out of a camera on a cell phone, so the ability to quickly review these would be great. I think CoCalc uses some javascripty-previewer, so no waiting on an external viewer to open up? Perhaps PDF.js, which may support annotations?

Good project for a student?

I find annotationg and returning an image a cumbersome process. Not sure if that would be desired by instructors, or if a slick interface would make it really easy and hence useful.