late grade policy implementation about abc-classroom

[betatim]

Thinking out loud and trying some things. We want to specify how much is deducted when you are late and specify exceptions from that rule for some students.

A proposal for a section to add to the config.yml that lists what penalty to apply after how many hours:

# specify the number of hours and the penalty after those hours
penalties:
  # 24h late -> 10% penalty
  24: 10%
  # 48h late -> 20% penalty
  48: 20%

To specify exceptions for a student I'd list them as part of the assignment:

assignments:
  week1:
    release: 2018-10-09
    deadline: 2018-10-11
    exceptions:
      lwasser:
        deadline: 2018-10-13 # two days grace
      betatim:
        deadline: 2018-10-14 # three days grace
  week2:
    release: 2018-11-11
    deadline: 2018-11-13
    # no students get any grace period for this assignment

Our plan was to select the last commit before the deadline as the one to grade. With the introduction of penalties and grade periods I am now not sure anymore what we should do. In an ideal fantasy land we could run the grader several times. Once for each of: original deadline, 24h penalty, 48h penalty. For each we pick the commit just before the grading period ends and then assign the student the highest grade of all the possible one. This means we'd end up grading each submission three times.

What other options do we have?

[lwasser]

closing this as well as we've moved away from the grading component and are focusing on github classroom management! we can always reopen