vpl_evaluate.sh

VPL: Using Maple for Math Assignments

One of the places that Moodle falls down in is in supporting math assignments. It occurred to me that we could treat math assignments like we do programming assignments by extending the Virtual Programming Lab plugin for Moodle to support Maple. This doesn’t replace existing products like the Maple / DigitalEd Möbius platform, nor does […]

VPL: Basic Custom Evaluation Example

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 […]