CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2023 - E2383. Grading Audit Trail

Introduction

Problem Statement

After an instructor gave a grade to an assignment, there is no way to track who gave the grade. A grading audit trail must be created and the following information needs to be stored:

1. When a grade is assigned by an instructor, there needs to be an indication of who did it and when it was done.

2. Comments previously provided by other instructors must also be preserved.

This information needs to be stored every time an instructor edits a grade/comment and clicks the save button.

A summary of the desired functionality is presented below:

Any instructor can assign or edit a grade freely.

There should be a way to track which instructor assigned or edited a grade, along with any comments they wrote justifying that grade.

These things must be recorded in the grading audit trail any time an instructor assigns or edits a grade and its comments:

• id of the instructor
• timestamp

Additionally, any comments written by other instructors should be preserved.