CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2014/final E1471 asuv

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Expertiza - Information Display and Student Interaction

Expertiza is a web application developed using Ruby on Rails that serves as a peer-review system. The application allows students to submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc)<ref>Expertiza on GitHub</ref><ref>Expertiza Wiki Page</ref>. It is an open source project and it's codebase is maintained in GitHub.

Introduction

Our contribution in this project is by improving the display of assignments for all the instructors and also to merge a previous project which made a improve the dashboard for student to view and compare their performance of the assignments.

Background

Scope

Purpose

Approach

As the project was originally assigned to students two years ago, the functionality is mostly complete. The main concern is that, as the project was completed 2 years ago (in December 2012), it was made for an older version of rails.

General Approach

Our general approach to the project would be as follows:

  • Run the current project with rails 4
  • Check the functionality to find out the incompatible and missing parts
  • Refactor the parts of code that do not function as expected and port them to rails 4 specification
  • After making sure everything runs, refactor the entire code to make sure it follows the global code rules.

Specific Approach

The specific approach to each of the two functionality is as follows:

Better display for assignments

We found that while the currently existing code covers most of the functionality, a major part of the functionality is missing. According to definition, the instructor should see the following on his home page:

  • His courses
  • Assignments for his courses
  • Questionnaire by assignment name

Each of these should be compressed to titles only, and it should be possible to expand them by single mouse click. Each course should have its own list of assignments which can, again, be expanded. Also, there is a search box on the page which allows to search assignments, courses and questionnaires.

Dashboard for students

Testing

Files involved

Files to be merged : Dashboard for students

  • Model
    • ScoreCache.rb
  • View
    • grades\view_my_scored.html.erb
  • Controller
    • grades_controller.rb, review_mapping_controller.rb,response_controller.rb
  • Database tables
    • Assignments,Participants, score_caches, response_maps,responses

Functionality of each file

Sr. No. File Name Type Functionality for this project
1 ScoreCache.rb Model Makes an entry into score_cache table whenever a response is given/edited
2 grades\view_my_scores.html.erb View Modified in order to display all new features
3 grades_controller.rb Controller To get information all information about an assignment and its score which is average score of all reviews and plotting the graph for grade distinction
4 review_mapping_controller.rb Controller To get additional information about assignment like total reviews submitted
5 Assignments Table All information related to assignment
6 Responses Table Stores individual assignment review response information
7 Score_caches Table Stores individual assignment review score information
8 response_maps Table Mapping between response, reviewer and reviewee


Files to be changed : Better display of assignment

  • Model
    • course_node.rb,assignment_node.rb,questionnaire_node.rb
  • View
    • tree_display\ _row_header.html.erb,tree_display\ _entry.html.erb,tree_display/actions/_courses_actions.html.erb
  • Controller
    • tree_display controller.rb,course_controller.rb,assignment_controller.rb,questionnaire_controller.rb
  • JavaScript
    • tableactions.js


Functionality of each file

Sr. No. File Name Type Functionality for this project
1 course_node.rb Model To fetch information about all course none in the system
2 assignment_node.rb Model To fetch information about all assignment node in the system
3 questionnaire_node.rb Model To fetch information about all questionnaire node in the system
4 tree_display controller.rb Controller For direct access to every entity like questionnaires, review rubric etc..
5 tree_display\ _row_header.html.erb View Display of header in a row
6 tree_display\ _entry.html.erb View Display entity in a row
7 tree_display/actions/_courses_actions.html.erb View Display separate actions on each row
8 course_controller.rb Controller Provides various course related functions
9 assignment_controller.rb Controller Provides various assignment related functions
10 questionnaire_controller.rb Controller Provides various questionnaire related functions

Use case

UML diagram

References

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