How to build Variabilized Templates
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A Variabilized Template is one in which the content creator uses variables instead of numbers to build a template. Then instances are made to the specification of the variables allowing us to create a bunch of similar problems with different numbers.
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Tutorial
- Variabilized ASSISTments Tutorials by Richard Dennen
- This word document might be a good place to start
- OtherVariabilizedExamples
Then you build a problem set
Watch this video to see how to take a selection of templates and make a skill building problem set out of a select number of instances from the template.
Go back to the Build page
Number Formatting in Templates
The Assistments system will automatically format numbers to its liking. e.g. 10.000 will be displayed as 10 and 0.0000001 will be 1e-7.
If you want Assistments to format your decimal with a certain number of digits after the decimal point, enter the variable like this:
%v{"%0.0number of digitsf" % yourval}. Replace number of digits with the number of digits you want displayed after the decimal point.
For example, if val1 is 1.5,
%v{"%0.06f" % val1} will show up as 1.500000 in the problem body and tutoring system.
Stats Programing with R (A free open source stats tool- useful for those teaching stats)
ASSISTments runs a R server. Neil Heffernan is is trying to get grant money to fund support for stats. File:Cartesian Plot Documentation.docx Here is some documentation needed for Neil's next student to carry on with this. This is not documentation on how to use it, but Neil is putting it here to help the next guy.
Assistment number: 30643 (You can find the same number in the documentation) You can change this or build a new one using different supported functions based on the doc.
