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From: Grant Braught (braught_at_dickinson.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 11:19:33 EDT 

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From: Grant Braught <braught_at_dickinson.edu>
Subject: Re: [Web-CAT-announce] Web-CAT maintenance on Monday 5/23
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:19:33 -0400


Thanks Steve, it seems to be working fine now.

BTW I didn't mean to send that last message to the whole listserv. I just hit reply to an e-mail with your name on it and didn't look carefully enough - sorry.

Grant

On Jun 1, 2005, at 9:42 AM, Stephen Edwards wrote:

> Grant Braught wrote:
>> I'm still not able to log into the Web-CAT server.
>
> Your account has been recreated for the summer session.
> Remember to select "support personnel" on the front page
> when you login. If you leave it as "Virginia Tech", your login
> will fail (since your guest account isn't authenticated through
> VT's campus-wide authentication service).
>
> In effect, you can think of each "institution" listed on the front
> page as being a separate domain of users, possibly with a
> different authentication mechanism in use. User IDs need only
> be unique within an institution/domain, not across all institutions
> served by this Web-CAT server. The server has a plug-in API
> for authentication mechanisms, so any given Web-CAT server
> can support as many (or as few) different institutions and
> authentication mechanisms as desired.
>
> That being said, all guest accounts on this server are created
> under the "Support Personnel" institution/domain, which uses
> simple database-stored passwords within Web-CAT itself.
>
>> I'm hoping to give some of my colleagues a demo later this week or
>> early next week at the latest.
>
> Let me know how it goes ... and let me know if you have any
> further trouble with the guest account.
>
>> I hope the NSF grant proposal came together for you.
>
> The proposal was successfully submitted to the Advanced Learning
> Technologies program at NSF (thanks for your help!).
>
> For those of you on the list who don't know about the proposal, we
> requested three years of support to do research on how we can support
> automatic grading and feedback generation for GUI-based and
> event-driven programs, how we can apply Web-CAT's capabilities
> across a wide range of programming activities from simple fill-
> in-the-blank or skeleton completion problems, through writing
> single methods (like the free response questions on the AP exam
> or on many of your finals), all the way to full-fledged independent
> programming assignments (which it already does). We also promised
> to create an open-source Web-CAT project and integrate Web-CAT's
> services into Moodle and Sakai, two open-source course management
> systems.
>
> -- Steve
>
> --
> Stephen Edwards 604 McBryde Hall Dept. of Computer
> Science
> e-mail : edwards_at_cs.vt.edu U.S. mail: Virginia Tech
> (VPI&SU)
 > office phone: (540)-231-5723 Blacksburg, VA
> 24061
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