repagh / practicon

Support library for control-theory questions in Moodle CodeRunner

PRACTIce CONtrol Systems -- PRACTICON

This is a set of classes and templates that can be used as a Moodle plugin in combination with the CodeRunner Moodle plugin to enable numeric matrix calculation and control theory questions.

Features

• Check modes for numeric answers.
• Check mode for transfer functions.
• Check mode for state-space systems, considers alternative choices for state variables.
• Check mode for matrices.
• Check mode for true/false questions.
• Template for numeric/programmatic input, student leaves the answers in appropriate Python variables.
• Template for field-based input, student enters the answer in browser fields.

Links

• Project home page:
• Source code repository:
• Documentation:

Dependencies

This package requires python packages json, numpy, scipy, python-control, and slycot.

This is a Moodle plugin add-on for Moodle and the CodeRunner Moodle question type plugin, these need to be installed.

Installation

The python package is to be installed on the job running back-end that is used by the CodeRunner plug-in. The question templates need to be added to the question database in use by your Moodle server or Moodle course.

For field-base input, an additional javascript file needs to be installed in CodeRunner's folder.