Sometimes you need to go beyond the default settings in VPL. That means creating a custom “run” and “evaluate” setup. Here, I’ll simplify a great example by Dominique Tiebaut, Emeritus prof at Smith College, written for an assignment in C. (archive) We’ll check a “hello world” example in C, but won’t use the default evaluate.cases […]
Virtual Programming Lab can be a little intimidating to use, but once you get the swing of things, it’s pretty good. So, let’s get you started with the simplest possible working example. We assume that: you have Moodle working at your institution someone has installed VPL on Moodle and you don’t need or have access […]
UIT has rebadged Moodle as “eClass” and now made the “Playground” feature front and centre for teaching faculty to create areas for us to test ideas without immediately changing an existing course. Access it via the “Create Playground” link on the left of your welcome page: We can now more easily name the playground. This […]
Virtual Programming Lab is a plugin for Moodle (eClass at YorkU) that permits interactive programming assignments to be made for students. There are some really good examples at Smith College on how to set it up with Python and a few with Java and C. I’ve posted, on YouTube, an example of how to […]