I added a calendar on Friday, 7/13, to the CHEM 1090 page to show the daily assignments in a nicer fashion. It looked good. Until I started looking at the new quizzes in the tutorials' section and found that the way they were displayed was all screwed-up. I mean majorly tweaked. It took me some time but I figured out that I made a mistake in the site’s style sheet which applied a style to both the assignment calendar and the quizzes. It was only meant to be applied to the assignment calendar.

Oops. Sorry about that! I’ve fixed it.

I’m now working on the dimensional analysis quiz. I’ve figured out how to use MathJax with JavaScript so I can create questions with randomly generated numbers. Now I just have to do it!

I've finally started to work on the tutorials/quizzes and the one for inorganic nomenclature is finished. I removed the old tutorial for it and replaced the pages with links back to the quiz. I’m going to work on the one for dimensional analysis next and I hope to have it finished by the time the summer quarter starts. I’m completely rewriting the JavaScript for each one and removing all of the pop-up windows (yea!).

One of my major projects for the break between spring and summer quarters is to fix the tutorials' section. They are in desperate need of recoding, removing popup windows, etc. I plan on introducing the proper display of math equations instead of using gif images like I used to do.

So I played around a few days ago and uploaded the MathJax JavaScript software. You can see the sample page here to get an idea of what I’m planning for the display of mathematical formulae in sections like the dimensional analysis tutorial.

I adjusted the periodic table quiz so it will now allow you to request a new quiz from the popup window rather than having to switch back to the main page and request it. This was done for Internet Explorer years ago because it would crash not only the browser but the operating system. Microsoft fixed the bug some time ago but I had forgotten all about it until a student asked about it.

Fixed!