CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2017/E17A4 Allow calibration to be part of an assignment

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This wiki page describes the changes made according to the specification of E17A4 final project assignment for Fall 2017.

Peer Review Information

For testing the changes made, the following credentials are recommended:

  • Instructor Login: username: instructor6 password: password

This project does compile. Reviewers can refer Testing Plan: Testing from the UI and the YouTube link https://youtu.be/fCxhD-qFUro for navigation help.


The testing plan is at the end of this document. Design principles were not needed since we mostly modified existing work.

Introduction

Expertiza is a web portal which can be used to manage assignments related to a course. It provides a platform to view assignments, manage teams, select topics and work improvement through anonymous peer reviews.

1. Problem Statement

In order to gain practice, the Student should be able to give calibration reviews before providing peer reviews. Thus, the Instructor should be able to enable calibration for every new and existing assignment. By this way, the student can improve peer reviewing by comparing his/her results with expert reviews for the same assignment.


Limitation

At present, the instructor is able to calibrate the students’ peer review abilities on Expertiza by creating only a separate assignment for this purpose. In this separate assignment that the instructor creates, the student and the instructor will simultaneously do peer review for the project. After submission of the reviews, the student's and instructor's reviews are compared and a calibration report is generated for the student to view and improve their peer reviewing skills.

Unfortunately, for students to practice peer reviewing, a separate assignment has to be created every time. In order to facilitate sufficient practice for peer review, this is not a convenient method.

Proposed System

The objective of this project is to enable calibration to be one part of the normal assignment. The instructor should be able to turn on this feature if necessary and provide the corresponding calibration deadline. The student should be pre-assigned sample assignments. Once the student submits the calibration reviews, the calibration results comparing the student and expert review are provided to the student. This feature should be available for normal assignments.

2. System Overview

Calibration review is the sample practice peer review used for comparing students' review with expert's review. The calibration results show the results and the experts' reviews, based on which the students can improve their peer reviewing skills.

In the current system has the following actors: a)Instructors:Users who have administrative privileges to create/edit assignments and impersonate students b)Students: Users who submit assignments and peer reviews

The current system allows the instructors to create assignments separately for calibration purposes. This is clearly inconvenient and ineffective as the students will not receive enough practice for peer reviewing on their normal assignments beforehand.

Analogously, if students were able to compare with the experts' review for normal assignments before providing actual peer reviews, they will be able to learn and improve their peer reviewing skills from the experts. Therefore, we have to intergrate this feature of peer reviewing in normal assignments as well.

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