Musings about life in retirement from academe
Scripting/programming in various languages
It seems there is no constant but change. I was feeling pleased with myself over my success with a Greasemonkey script to produce simple statistics for comparing results from multiple markers in the Moodle assignment system. My infrequent forays into coding had made that process a bit like climbing a greasy pole but I’d eventually succeeded in reaching the top...
For the past eight years we have been dealing with assignments submitted online through a locally developed system, EASE (Electronic Assignment Submission Environment), which was originally planned in response to perceived deficiencies in WebCT Vista, our LMS from 2003 until around 2008. By the time EASE was ready we were in transition to Moodle as our LMS but EASE offered enough that...
I’ve kept a personal/professional web page on the USQ web site for as long as it has been possible to do so – since the mid-1990s. It has the usual stuff – brief bio, abbreviated CV, list of publications. Over the years I’ve done periodic renovations. It started as a set of simple pages, moved to frames when they were...