Products.ECAutoAssessmentBox 1.4.2

Overview

ECAutoAssessmentBox is a Plone product derived from ECAssignmentBox and provides special support for automatic evaluation of student submissions, e.g., programming assignments.

Basically ECAutoAssessmentBox works like ECAssignmentBox. Automatic assessment of programs is handled by ECSpooler (available separately) which manages a submission queue and several backends. When a student submits a program, it is routed to the backend specified by the teacher for this assignment. The results of the tests performed by the backend are immediately returned and displayed.

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Prerequisites

1. To use ECAutoAssessmentBox you need a current Plone installation, specifically Plone 4.x. Check plone.org for Plone’s prerequisites.

2. The ECAssignmentBox product.

Installation

See the Installing an Add-on Product tutorial for more detailed product installation instructions.

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    Products.ECAutoAssessmentBox

Support

For questions and discussions about ECAutoAssessmentBox, please join the eduComponents mailing list.

Credits

ECAssignmentBox was written by Mario Amelung and Michael Piotrowski.

The icons used in ECAssignmentBox are from the Silk icon set by Mark James. They are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

ECAutoAssessmentBox was ported to Plone 3 and 4 by Eudemonia Solutions AG with support from Katrin Krieger and the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg.

History

# Changes in release 1.4.2 (2011-10-07)

• The new field Instant Feedback for AutoAssessmentBoxes allows teachers to decide whether or not the automatic feedback from ECSpooler/backends will be shown to students.

• A lot of minor bugfixes regarding the new release of ECSpooler (1.2).

# Changes in release 1.4.1 (2011-08-14)

• Fixed issue: ImportError: No module named schema.vocabulary

# Changes in release 1.4 (2011-08-10)

• Added compatibility for Plone 4. Plone 3.x support has been dropped. Plone 3 users should use ECAutoAssessmentBox 1.1.

• KSS is used to display input fields for a selected backend without loading the whole edit page again.

# Changes in release 1.1 (2009-10-09)

• ECAutoAssessmentBox was completly re-implemented with support for Plone 3.

• ECAutoAssessmentBox is now eggified and uploaded to PyPI. An old-style tarball distribution is still available at plone.org.

# Changes in release 1.0 (2007-04-16)

• Added check box “Automatically accept assignments” to ECAutoAssessmentBox to automatically move an assignment in state “accepted” if it successfully passed all tests. (Makes sense for backens which return true or false only.)

• Settings for ECSpooler and appropriated backends are now stored as portal properties. Therefore it is no longer necessary to set up spooler and backends after re-install.

• Indicators are now differ depending on the backends result type, i.e., for backends returning True or False an icon will be displayed, otherwise the plain result value (e.g., percentage or score.)

• Performance improvements: We are now using portal_catalog where possible.