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From: Stephen stedwar2 (stedwar2_at_cs.vt.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 08 2005 - 12:39:33 EST 

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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:39:33 -0500
From: Stephen stedwar2 <stedwar2_at_cs.vt.edu>
Subject: Re: Web-CAT hosting


> 1. Requesting to try to host Web-CAT here for our students (knowing the lack of docs).

If you're seriously interested in taking this path, I'll be happy to work with you on it.
We've got to tackle the "first" nonlocal installation at some point, and I'm pretty
sure we'll never get an installation guide until we actually try to do such an install
and write up what we did (and what didn't work) :-).

> 2. Using Web-CAT as an optional system for our students, and stick with hand-grading.

This is also feasible, but probably not as useful as (1), IMHO.

> 3. Investigating alternative (and perhaps inferior) submission systems.

Of course you don't want to do that! ;-)

Think it over and decide what you want to do. If you want to put together a locally hosted installation, then lets try to work out a plan and a timeline. You'll need to identify a server (even a plain old workstation will do) that will act as your local host and pick your OS/patform. I'm assuming you'd probably want to do this during the start of the summer, so that you can have things operational and checked out before the summer is over. Until then, you can play on my server to get the feel of things.

BTW, it is our spring break now, and I am hoping to have some major changes to how the grading/assignment configuration works fielded during the next week or so.

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