CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2021 - E2148. Completion/Progress View

Problem Statement

In Expertiza, peer reviews are used as a metric to evaluate someone’s project. Once someone has peer-reviewed a project, the authors of the project can also provide feedback for this review, called “author feedback.” While grading peer reviews, it would be nice for the instructors to include the author's feedback, since it shows how helpful the peer review actually was to the author of the project. Currently, however, the instructor has no easy way of seeing the author-feedback scores, so it would be far too much trouble to include them in grades for reviewing. The aim of this project is to build this into the system.

Breaking down the problem statement into 3 subproblems:

1. A toggle button to view/hide average authors scores

The review report is already pretty crowded. The addition of a new column for average authors' feedback scores will make things clumsy. And often there is no author feedback, so it will be mostly wasted space. So, we are updating the UI in such a way that it's up to the instructor to view or hide the author's feedback. So, a toggle button at the top of the table will be added to view or hide the average author's feedback. When average authors' feedback is viewed the reviewer column will be squeezed, by using wrapping, in order to allocate space to the average authors' feedback column.

Old UI

LOFI UI sketch

2. Author's summary link

Right now, if the average author's feedback is too low, there is no way for the instructor to take a look at the author's comments. It's good if we can maintain an author's summary page where the instructor can take a look at the author's comments in order to come to a conclusion about the low average author's feedback. Sometimes even the reviewer's comments can be attacking the author's work. So if the author expresses such kinds of issues in the author's feedback instructor will be aware of how legitimate and polite the reviewer was if we can expose the author's comments somewhere in the system. The plan is to add this link in the reviews done column right after the summary link.

LOFI UI sketch

3. Austor's summary page

As discussed in the 2nd point, a new author's summary link will be provided on the review report page which will redirect the instructor to a new author's summary page. The author's summary page will have all the author's comments for a student who has reviewed the project. Each team author's scores will be rendered one by one.

LOFI UI sketch