Online programmable assignment tool for mathematics

Abstract

Wouldn’t it be great if you can create sophisticated mathematical assignment with various editing tools at any time and any place? Wouldn’t it be great if you prepare different assignment for different student easily? Wouldn’t it be great if you can do mathematical assignment and get back the result instantly? Online Programmable Assignment Tool for Mathematics is all you need. Blackboard Test Manager in edveNTUre website offers limited features and unintuitive interface, which were proposed by some professors. Online Programmable Assignment Tool for Mathematics aims to solve all the issues. It offers a LaTeX editor for dynamically editing mathematical formula. It provides rich text editor that can insert image and edit HTML code. What’s more, it assigns random parameters for different student. The grades and comments are instantly generated once student submits an assignment. Best breed of technologies such as JavaScript, AJAX, Java, BeanShell and MySQL DBMS are employed in Online Programmable Assignment Tool for Mathematics to provide professional application. It uses Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library at web portal and MySQL database server at back-end. In addition, Apache Tomcat server is selected as web server. Online Programmable Assignment Tool for Mathematics is a building block for Blackboard System and it could be integrated with edveNTUre website to provide the full service.