CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2019 - E1975. Generalize Review Versioning

About Expertiza

Expertiza is an open source project based on Ruby on Rails framework and the code is available on Github. Expertiza allows the instructor to create new assignments as well as edit new or existing assignments. Instructors can also create a list of topics the students can sign up for and specify deadlines for completion of various tasks. Students can form teams in Expertiza to work on various projects and assignments as well as peer review other students' submissions. Expertiza supports submission across various document types, including the URLs Wiki pages.

Introduction

Expertiza is a peer-review based learning platform in which work-products by students are evaluated and scored by peer-review of other students. Review process occurs in stages. After submission of initial feedback for a work-product by the peer-group, students are allowed time to incorporate the comments and improve their work. This second version of the work product is reviewed again and scores are given. This process might be repeated again and the average score from the last review stage is considered as the final score for that work-product. This incremental development of work-products and progressive learning is the fundamental concept underlying the Expertiza system.