CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2021 - E2155. Calibration submissions should be copied along with calibration assignments

Project Overview

Introduction

Expertiza is an open-source education and classroom web-tool founded by the National Science Foundation. Built with Ruby on Rails, it is designed to manage complete courses and students’ work within those courses. Each course can have a collection of instructors and students, though the interaction between instructors and students is minimal. The real emphasis of Expertiza is placed on peer-to-peer interactions, fostering a student-driven learning environment. Courses are comprised of assignments which users complete individually or with a team. Assignments usually encourage or require a team to enforce practicing peer-to-peer interaction.

Background

To improve the experience of peer reviewing and to find out the competent reviewers among all the reviewers, designing a new form of review for assignments seems to be a fix. As a result, "calibration assignment" was introduced to the Expertiza system. The calibration assignment should be assigned before the peer review so that the students can know if they reviewed using the same rubrics as the instructor. To set up the calibration assignment that allows both the instructor and the students of the course to review, the instructor needs to create a new assignment and add all the participants manually, which is not a great experience.

Objectives

To fix the issue of having too many steps of setting up the calibration assignment every semester,