File upload/submission question type

Re: File upload/submission question type

by Richard Lobb -
Number of replies: 1

Great posting - thanks Trent. I forwarded it to all our Software Engineering staff to show them how things should be done :)  I'd certainly be interested in hearing more when/if you have time.

Richard

In reply to Richard Lobb

Re: File upload/submission question type

by Jim Newton -
Was feature implemented?

Having students copy/paste large amounts of code into the text box which gets magically spliced into template code is very brittle.  If the user's code is not parsable, then the error messages are completely useless.  For example if the user code is missing a parenthesis or quotation mark, the output does not indicate such.
If the user's code was available as a file, then it would be easy to tell whether that file is parsable.