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pisan · ‎04-17-2020

Extremely useful. Puts my python scripts to shame since a lot more people can use Excel than execute python in a Unix shell. I have extracted the group information from Canvas to create pre-assigned Zoom breakout rooms which has been very handy for teaching. One concern I have is that I cannot view the macros. I would like to view the macros to make sure that they are not writing anything to Canvas, they are not sending my Canvas token to a third destination, etc. Slight uneasiness on running macros that I just downloaded from the internet. Would appreciate if you shared the VBAProject Password, so I, and others, could check the code. Thanks.

pisan · ‎12-14-2019

Not sure if this is a bug, or is working the way it is intended and I do not understand the implementation. If a student is getting 88.5% and that corresponds to a 3.3, students gets to see that in Canvas. If I then set the grade override to 2.0 for that student, not only does the student's decimal grade go down, but their percentage grade also goes down. The new grade no longer corresponds to the arithmetic weighted sum. Is this the way it is supposed to work? After the override, the student would be puzzled as to how the grades add up to 75% when they clearly are higher. Thanks

pisan · ‎12-03-2018

[Posted to HigherEd and Instructional Designer groups] Hi, I always want to provide students with more feedback than I ever have time for, so I taught that some of the feedback could be automated. I was not the first person to have this brilliant idea. There is a long history of automated feedback systems (and Intelligent Tutoring Systems) with various levels of success. There are free ones (such as AutoGradr - Automatically grade programming assignments, Web-CAT, Marmoset, APOGEE, Infandango, and Submit!) as well as commercial systems (such as Vocareum, Zybooks, Turings Craft, and Pearson Revel). All of these systems have their advantages and disadvantages. Well, this did not stop me from building my own version, called JollyFeedback or Jolly for short. If you would like to try out Jolly, the link to download is below. It is based on python3, so it should (in theory) run on any system. The main features of Jolly are: Download all student submissions or a single submission from Canvas to instructor's computer via command-line (no logging into Canvas, clicking buttons required, just 'jolly.py --download') Move each student's submission into its own directory and unzip any zip files if needed Run default programs (such as unzip, cpplint, cppcheck) on each student submission and save the results into a file. Email the results of the tests back to students Jolly provides a test harness, as such it can work for all types of submissions. For students submitting essays, the test could be to run grammar and spell checker on the essays and send the results back (writing or integrating grammar/spell checker is left to instructor). For students submitting computer programs, it can run the programs, compare the results to the expected output and email the students the differences. I have only tested it on the UW system, so I am not sure at this point how "customized" the Canvas installation is and whether the things that work on UW system will or will not work on other systems. If you are interested in testing out v0.0.1-alpha-minus, have a look at the README at jollyPublic/README.md at master · pisanuw/jollyPublic · GitHub and download the system from Releases · pisanuw/jollyPublic · GitHub I look forward to your feedback and who knows might even be able to put in "high priority" features if you were interested in using it. Thanks Yusuf pisan[at]uw.edu

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