Troubleshooting 4
This week was all about moodle. I needed to solve a lot of issues that I had in creating a quiz for students. On was to make sure that the answers were coming out to reasonable answers. I wanted the problems to be challenging but it helps students gain confidence if the answers are not all over the place (like crazy small decimals, or really big numbers. ) This was solved in the final page of creating a question where I could analyze numbers and answers before adding them to a question set.
The big problem I had was formatting. I was almost thinking of forgetting about the whole project because of how algebra problem look when the get a little complex. For example 1/2 does not look very nice on one line of text. Neither does anything to a power like x^2. Then I found out that I can put all my questions into LaTeX. I of course had to take my usual troubleshooting route through forums that lead me to a LaTeX cheat sheet so I knew all the code. Now all my questions are turning out just as I like!
