All releases of Spotter
Release Notes: The directory structure for the installed files has been cleaned up; users upgrading from Spotter 2.x will need to move some things around. A bug involving logins has been fixed. The code has been cleaned up.
Release Notes: The program can now check the number of significant figures in the student's answer.
Release Notes: This version fixes a bug involving the rendering of some mathematical expressions on the screen, e.g. a variable named "hbar" no longer causes an error.
Release Notes: This version fixes three bugs. The numerical sampling algorithm uses more samples, making it more robust. A bug has been fixed that made the program give incomplete output in cases where variables were defined, but not given a verbal description, in the XML file. Inverse trig functions are now rendered properly in mathml.
Release Notes: The code has been cleaned up, and server-side performance has been improved by about a factor of three.
Release Notes: This version has a performance optimization, and also does a better job of alerting the user if login fails because the user's browser isn't accepting cookies.
Release Notes: This version adds a general mechanism for creating qualitative questions using JavaScript, and uses that mechanism to implement multiple-choice questions.
Release Notes: As the student types an answer, the result is now parsed on the fly and displayed using MathML.
Release Notes: Some improvements in performance have been made.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug that caused an error when interpreting certain types of expressions involving units.
