CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2019 - E1981. Student-generated questions added to rubric
Introduction
The rubrics in expertiza are created by instructors. These Rubrics only contain questions that are related to the existed topics. Now, Expertiza only supports students to pull questionnaires is specific rubrics to get some help. Even that they can ask about anything that is relevant to all the projects that will be submitted But when students encounter difficult problems which are not in the existed topics, and they want to get special advice on that new field, the demand for creating supplementary review questionnaire raises. This project (E1879) aims to solve this problem by allowing students to add questions to the standard instructor generated rubric so that they can get specific feedback on from the reviewers.
Proposed solution
We will add the Supplementary Review Questions to the current Review Questions, and show these student-generated questions under the rubric given by instructor. Even though these questions won't be graded, they will eventually provide diversity for feedback. It will increase the benefit that each team gets because they can get feedback that is specific to their project.
Implementation
Design Strategy
Goal: In Expertiza, all kinds of rubrics and surveys are subclasses of Questionnaire. A Questionnaire can contain “questions” of several types (e.g., checkboxes, dropdowns, text boxes). We'll add a new subclass of Questionnaire called, say, SupplementalReviewQuestionnaire.
1. there should be a checkbox when creating the whole questionnaire to indicate whether this questionnaire will have supplemental review questions or not.
2. there should be a button that has the content "add supplemental questions".
2.a. if you click that button, it will redirect to a page that an instructor uses to create a supplemental questionnaire.
2.b. when the supplemental questionnaire is created, it should append to the existed questionnaire.
3. After the reviewer finished the review, student can find the supplemental questionnaire in the review page.
How we will do this:
1. add a variable in the questionnaire class.
2. add another file for a supplemental questionnaire and save them to the database.
3. add a method to get the corresponding supplemental questionnaire and to add questions into the existed questionnaire.
4. we should add another method to show the supplemental questionnaire in the review page.
Modifications in the User Interface (Todo)
1. Assignment Creation Page in Instructor's Account
We plan to implement a check box under the column of Rubrics in the assignment creation page indicating whether the instructor allows students to add specific questionnaires with respect to their projects.
2. Your Work Page in A Student's Account
We plan to implement a link or button on the Your Work page of an assignment of a student whose assignment is enabled to create supplementary review questionnaires by the instructor, in order to redirect to the Review Rubrics Creation page.
3. Review Rubrics Creation Page
In this page, students are able to create supplementary review questions regarding the specifics of their own assignments.
4. Review Page
In the Review Page of reviewers, the supplementary review questions created by the owner of the assignment will be shown to reviewers along with the standard review questions created by the instructor.
5. Review Results Page
The Review Results Page should display the results of standard questions created by the instructor as well as the results of supplementary review questions created by the instructor.
Use Cases
1. Use case of creating a Supplementary Review Questionnaire
2. Use case of reviewing questions for reviewers.
3. Use case of reviewing responses of questions.
Test Plan
Actually, we need to add tests for the following:
1. To check the link for "Supplementary Review Questionnaire" appears in the "Your Work" section of a student.
2. To check if the link for "Supplementary Review Questionnaire" redirects to page which allows to create questionnaire.
3. To check if the questionnaire ID is stored in the Team table.
4. To check if the reviewers can see the supplementary questions that were added by the team as part of the review questions.
5. To check if the responses of the Supplementary Review Questions have been added to the responses of the existing review questions.
File which are added/modified
Note: Because the pull request contains some code irrelevant to this project which make it confusing, we post our code here for you to read clearly.
Team members
Hua Cao
Heng Yu
Jianshu Zhang
Zirun Han
Links
Expertiza on Github:https://github.com/zyczyh/expertiza
Pull Request:https://github.com/expertiza/expertiza/pull/1325
Expertiza YouTube channel:https://youtu.be/3PUNknSbU-k