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numbas / Numbas

A completely browser-based e-assessment/e-learning system, with an emphasis on mathematics
http://www.numbas.org.uk
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Where do rulesets go in exams? #148

Closed BillFoster closed 12 years ago

BillFoster commented 12 years ago

At present user-defined rulesets belong to exams. However,such rulesets are used in questions extensively, leastways the ones I write, and creating exams by uploading questions from other sources may result in conflict in the rules used and in their names. If you write a question for generic use in many exams then the rulesets have to be in some sense standard and so a large number of such rules built into Numbas would be one solution. On the other hand putting user-defined rulesets in questions is safer, as they are locally defined and although this may lead to all sorts of rulesets within an exam it may be preferable, Ideas?

christianp commented 12 years ago

I thought we'd already agreed that rulesets would belong only to questions.

BillFoster commented 12 years ago

I had forgotten what we decided - but at present rulesets are entered using the editor in exams not questions. For the above reasons it may be better to have them in questions.