CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2020 - E2076. Allow users to create an account and submit work to an "assignment" (e.g., for conference reviewing)

This page provides a description of the Expertiza based OSS project.

About Expertiza

Expertiza is an open source project based on Ruby on Rails framework. Expertiza allows the instructor to create new assignments and customize new or existing assignments. It also allows the instructor to create a list of topics the students can sign up for. Students can form teams in Expertiza to work on various projects and assignments. Students can also peer review other students' submissions. Expertiza supports submission across various document types, including the URLs and wiki pages.

Problem Statement

Peer-assessment systems have always been separate from peer-review systems used by journals and conferences. But the two systems have a lot in common: submitting and reviewing, and guidance given to reviewers in the form of a rubric. The main differences are how accounts are created and how reviewers are assigned. In a peer-assessment system, the instructor typically creates accounts for the whole class. Reviewers are assigned either by the instructor, or automatically by the system. In conference and journal review, anyone can submit a paper. When they do, an account is implicitly created for them. They may invite their co-authors to join them; this is kind of like inviting teammates in Expertiza, except that the co-authors don’t necessarily have pre-existing accounts either, and there is typically no maximum on the number of authors for a paper.

Design Plan

Use Case

1. Author sign up:

2. Author adding paper to expertiza for review.

3. Author sending an invitation to collaborators.

4. Collaborator sign up.

5. Review.

Pull Request

Coming Soon...

Files to be edited

These are some of the files identified, that will require changes. Also, our observations include that most of the code has been written in the controller which is not an ideal design. We will try and push some of the code into models to better align with the design principles.

1. users_controller.rb

2. assignments_controller.rb