Thursday, February 12, 2015

g(Math) updated with better image quality for expressions and gridlines on graphs.

I am excited to release 2 of the top requested features on g(Math), better image quality on expressions and grid lines on graphs. Now that my job search is complete I hope to release a lot more improvements over the next few months. I am super excited about a couple of things in the pipeline and can't wait for them to be ready for primetime!

The top feature request/complaint about g(Math) was the poor image quality upon scaling. Thanks to +James Petersen's tip, you can now indicate the size of the image you want which increases quality. A ninja tip would be to have a bigger size than needed and shrink the image in the Doc to get a better quality image.



Grid lines used to be a feature on the original gGraph and now they are back! I made them a default option that will put gridlines on the specified xstep and ystep. You can uncheck the option at the bottom to return back to no gridlines.


Tuesday, December 2, 2014

formIngester and formCreator Add-ons are in Beta and open to Trusted Testers!!

In what started as a quick post in the Google+ Community Apps Scripts for Education - Builders and Users about how to create a Google Form from questions in a spreadsheet has spawned my two newest Add-ons for Sheets: formIngester and formCreator.

These 2 Add-ons work in tandem and are the building blocks for an Forms Add-on I have been working on:
formIngester will take the question properties from a Form in your Drive and populate the spreadsheet.
formCreator will take the question properties from the spreadsheet and populate a Form.

These 2 Add-ons are not in the Chrome Store yet as they are still in Beta and I would love to have some Trusted Testers to help me fix any bugs that exist (I am sure there many to find ;)!!

If you would like to join the Trusted Tester group follow these links to request membership:

formIngester Trusted Tester Group
formCreator Trusted Tester Group

Here are some quick tutorials on the Add-ons:





Monday, November 3, 2014

g(Math) will now create individualized, differentiated quizzes and grade them mathematically!!

The latest feature addition to g(Math) for Sheets is the one I have been waiting the longest to complete and port over from my scripts workflow: individualized, differentiated quizzes with a mathematical grading!!

The g(Math) for Sheets QuizNinja will create individualized quizzes that can be differentiated with random questions. The grading aspect also uses a mathematical aspect so if the answer is 4x, it will be marked correct if you put in any value equivalent (like 4*x, x*4, x4, 3x+1x, 16x/(4x), etc...). It is not flawless, so please check to make sure that anything marked incorrect is actually incorrect. I understand this is not ideal, but I feel like it is better than previous available options.

You can check out the full Help documentation at:
 http://www.gmath.guru/quick-quiz-creator/#/quizninja-for-individualized-forms/