It’s back to school time and as usual I’m extracting data from Socrative reports.
Socrative.com is great when it comes to auto marking multiple choice content but if I have a few manually marked questions then it becomes painful in both adding up the marks and giving the students feedback as to where they can improve.
In summary:
1. Check versions! Of Python, Flask and Jinja
2. Read this really useful tutorial https://dev.to/lordghostx/how-to-host-flask-applications-on-namecheap-cpanel-299b (Thanks LordGhostX)
Okay so I’ve been meaning to figure this out for a while. Flask is a good library for letting students use the power of Python as a back end to the graphical niceties of HTML,CSS and Javascript. But we’ve been stuck to using it on Replit or Glitch which, being public sites, aren’t ideal for students who are doing their final year project and suffer the other issues of remotely hosted IDEs. So I was always interested in finding another way. Read more…
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/
I’m teaching a module on Artificial Intelligence to my Year 9 students, and they are really enjoying it. Today’s lesson was about “How do we get a machine to learn” and led on to training the following machine to recognise the difference between two students.
Unfortunately, the model was taking too long to train at the end of the lesson (hint – always leave plenty of time to do this activity!) but I didn’t want to lose the value training it had done so at the end I downloaded the model and set up a page that has a webcam that will (hopefully) detect which student is standing in front of the camera. The beauty of this is that no images of the students are stored anywhere. The model has already learned all it needs and discarded the original images.
There’s only so far you can get with Python before you realise the command line is pretty, well, boring. And you hanker for something graphical, with colours and buttons and different fonts. What you need my friend is a Graphical User Interface(GUI)
It’s reports time again – specifically UCAS references time. And I need to write up to 140 words on each of my students.
I like using Excel for such things but was surprised there was no easy way of counting the words in each cell. I knew you could count characters using LEN() but not how to count the words…. till I found this post and this useful snippet:
=LEN(TRIM(text)) - LEN(SUBSTITUTE(text, " ", "")) + 1