relate

RELATE

Relate is an Environment for Learning And TEaching

RELATE is a web-based courseware package. It is set apart by the following features:

• Focus on easy content creation

  • Simple, text-based format for reusable course content
  • Based on standard YAML, Markdown

  See example content.

• Flexible rules for participation, access, and grading

• Versioning of content through deep integration with git. Instructors can preview newly-authored content while students work with prior versions, all from the same instance of RELATE.

• Multiple courses can be hosted on the same installation

• Code questions:

  • Allow students to write code into a text box (with syntax highlighting)
  • Sandboxed execution
  • Automatic grading
  • Plotting support
  • Optional second-stage grading by a human

• Class calendar and grade book functionality.

• Statistics/analytics of student answers.

• Facilitates live quizzes in the classroom.

• In-class instant messaging via XMPP. Works well with xmpp-popup.

More information around the web:

• Documentation
• Source code

Installation

See the installation guide.

License

Copyright (C) 2014-15 Andreas Kloeckner

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.