CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2019 - E1985. Let course staff and students do reviews

Problem Statement

Peer review is a great way for students to learn about how well they have developed their application. However there are some problems with this:

• Sometimes, the peer reviews may not be thorough and the team/person's work reviewed might not reflect the actual status of the development.
• The reviewer might not know how well they are reviewing the peers work. They might not entirely know what tone to use or what suggestion to make.

By letting course staff perform reviews as well, the reviewer and the reviewee both benefit, improving the overall learning experience.

Allow TA/Instructor to add himself as a participant

Currently instructors and TA's can add themselves as participants. The teaching staff reviewing a previous project thought this might be a bad idea. Here's what they said about it in our project description. "It adds instructor to the assgt. as a participant. This is probably not a good idea, because the instructor can review everyone, independent of what reviewer-assignment mechanism was in use."