[Bcoewg] Question regarding development of Chemistry OER

I am trying to tidy up a student/faculty project made possible by the UNBC OER Development Grant https://www.unbc.ca/centre-teaching-and-learning/oer-development-grant and thought I’d put this question out in the event anyone else has encountered this type of challenge. I have an extensive Organic Chemistry workbook (with solutions) that is a new ancillary resource for an adapted Organic Chemistry opentextbook. All the chapters in this workbook correspond to the chapters in the adapted open textbook. There previously was no associated workbook for this resource. The faculty member assembled questions for all the chapters and worked with a student to confirm all of the solutions. The problem is … the student completed all of these solutions on paper and then scanned the entire workbook into a PDF. This is a great resource, but I really think it the solutions need to be provided as markup rather than images. I have chemfig https://ctan.org/pkg/chemfig working with ShareLaTex https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Chemistry_formulae but I expect having a student complete the markup for all of these chemistry diagrams (hundreds) may not be possible as the learning curve will likely be too to ask of a student. Even if I did find a student capable of taking this on, I expect it would take many hours over months to complete. I also have been exploring using Binder https://mybinder.org/ and Jupyter Notebooks for this http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/greglandrum/4316430. This is a great option for ensuring shareable/editable markup, but again there is a learning curve for this that may be prohibitive for most students. I really feel like markup should be generated for these diagrams to avoid creating hundreds of images. I feel that generating the markup will allow easier adaptation/editing of the resources, but at the same time aware that there is a significant learning curve involved for the person taking this on. Anyone working with rending diagrams with markup? If so, what worked/failed? Cheers ~ Grant ------------------- Grant Potter UNBC Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology http://unbc.ca/ctlt http://twitter.com/unbc_ctlt