Hello! I am a new AirTable user and have spent over 30 hours trying to build a worksheet generator for my classes. Since I don’t quite know how AirTable works, Chat GPT has been walking me through all of the steps. But … it isn’t working and after 30 hours I’m feeling like I should give up. Would anyone be willing to take a look at it and help me?
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+31Hi Colleen! Could you talk a bit about what you’re trying to achieve? If you could provide some example input data and how you would want it to look (perhaps screenshots of you manually creating something in Google Sheets or something) it would help a lot too!
+6Hi Colleen,
Happy to help if I can. I run an educational travel company and use Airtable a lot. Without knowing anything about your design/goals I’m curious where you are getting into issues.
Are you trying to create a printable worksheet or perhaps a form students can use?
Is this something dynamic you are trying to get up and running?
Without some extensions or external tools I would imagine worksheets are hard, so I’d love to brainstorm and see your goals.
Hi Adam!
Thank you so much for responding! I am actually pretty proud of myself … after spending a LOT of time, I have been able to make my base idea work. I have a Students table that has the name of each student and their current skill (currently addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and mixed operations). I have created a Fact Bank that has 196 addition/multiplication records, 91 subtraction records, and 156 division records. I have created a button that will automatically generate a list of 100 random problems from each skill. I have separated those 100 facts into 4 columns so that I can use the Page Designer extension to create four columns. I am now able to print one PDF that prints in roster order, with the students’ name and the problems they are working on for that day. I also added an answer key that generates a one-page solution for each operation.
Now … I’ve been through so many iterations and workarounds that I am sure I have a lot of unnecessary tables and fields. I’d like to clean that up.
I also need to add to my fact bank. My goal (and what I currently do by hand, which takes a long time), is to have each student working on a skill that is at their level. So my kids who are struggling can practice doubles facts, but my kids who are excelling can start learning how to do prime factorization or add/subtract integers. I currently have the worksheet pulling 100 basic facts problems, but don’t want that many for each skill. So I need to figure out how to generate only 10 problems, for example, and how to include that in my final PDF that prints in roster order.
Thanks!
Colleen Stachowiak
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