On-screen calculator

[christianp]

An on-screen calculator would avoid the rigmarole of making sure students bring an allowed calculator to an exam.

The calculator should be configurable:

• basic arithmetic
• surds and trig
• all scientific functions (Casio emulation, ideally)
• accuracy
• options to disable/enable specific operations.

This should probably be an extension.

[r-s-rai]

Do you want this to be an actual extension as opposed to a built-in feature? This seems like the type of feature you want enabled for an entire exam rather than individual questions. How exactly do you want the extension to look and operate? Should it be on the question page or do you want a button that when pressed will open a pop-up window that contains the calculator? Also, for specific operations, do you want a dropdown box to select a scientific calculator versus simple calculator, or do you want the ability to choose each individual operation that will be shown on the calculator? Also, the documentation for making extensions and using them is unclear.

[christianp]

@r-s-rai This will be a very complicated feature and will require a lot of thought, so I'd like to take it on myself, thanks.