mp-access / backend

The backend for the assistive course creation and evaluation student submission tool

Course-Service

Repo cloner + Data Parser + Spring server

Properties

Application specific properties: resources/application.properties

# Can be set to false to disable security during local development
rest.security.enabled=true

# Initializing users
# Initialize course participants, if true, will connect to the identity provider to create user accounts and course groups
course.users.init-on-startup=false
# Use a default password when creating new users for development
course.users.use-default-password-for-new-accounts=true
# Value of the default password
course.users.default-password=<default-pwd-for-development>

# OpenID: URL to identity provider
rest.security.auth-server=http://localhost:9999/auth

# Evaluation worker queue configuration
submission.eval.thread-pool-size=10
submission.eval.max-pool-size=20
submission.eval.queue-capacity=500

submission.eval.user-rate-limit=false # If set to true users have to wait for their submission to be corrected before they can submit again

# Activate performance test logging
logging.level.org.springframework.aop.interceptor.PerformanceMonitorInterceptor=trace

API Docs

With the server application running: http://localhost:8080/api/swagger-ui.html

Works also using rest.security.enabled=true or rest.security.enabled=false

When the flag is set to true, click on authorize, for client_id enter access-frontend and click on Authorize

backend's Issues

User course management

As an admin, I want to register new courses via the frontend

If we are already using an IdP with roles and everything, we might as well offer an API in future to register new courses

Show list of exercises for an assignment

FilePath needs to only display local path

Model User Workspace

As an author, I want to specify the release date of an assignment

On release date, the course should be automatically served with the rest of the public content over the API

Detection and Warning of breaking changes in Course updates

That we have some system that detects incorrect folder structure like a local script that checks before the author commits. Or an email that notifies etc. Course config checking.

Backend checking. After commit an author can check on our website if everything went ok, or we send an email if there was a conflicting commit. We ignore confliciting or breaking commits unless the author authorizes the break. Additionally we could have a local script that checks beforehand before commiting.

Manage course

As an author, I want to manage my course via the course repository.
By adding participants to the configuration file, users of ACCESS should gain access to the course.
By specifying the release and due date of an assignment, I want to be able to schedule important dates for the course.

Any update to the repo, should update the contents served to the students.

Export course results

As a course author, I want to be able to export results for one of my courses

Clarify how to store group information in JWT

Students does exercise

As an author, I want to create a new course in a git repo

Tasks:

• Load course contents from repo
• Provide course contents via API

Update Data

We need to Update Course data instead of completely re-parsing and assigning new UUIDS so we can guarantee persistence of ids

View code template in online editor

How to handle private repos

Execute info 1 exercise in Jobe

As a student, I want to see my grades for an assignment

Create second course repository

Course Resource Update Conflict Detection and Warning

He wants a feedback-system then when he makes a commit that breaks our parser or the structure or delets folderstructure etc then that an email or a local script that you have a ruleset with breaking changes before one commits.

Model user workspace

Exercise Model needs Git hash

Every Exercise Model needs to reference the Git hash, where it was changed last

Investigage Jobe with folder structures.

Mergen von Accounts und Matrikelnummern

In Config beinhaltet Auflistung von Studenten in der Folgenderweise:
{ Email (kann eine nicht Uzh Mail sein. Bleibt immer gleich!), Matrikel Nummer (kann Null sein), Olat-ID (kann Null sein) }
Die User, die keine Olat-ID gesetzt haben, bekommen einen Banner, der Sie darauf hinweist, dass sie bald den Course Admin Ihrer Matrikel Nummer und Olat-ID mitteilen sollen.
Der Course Admin fügt diese Infos ins Config ein.

Student sees exercise result

Parsing file contents to string

Search for a File Explorer Component for Frontend

As an author, I want to publish my newest course configuration

• At startup, load newest course configurations

Add UID to course model

Show exercise question

We use markdown to write our question. Find and use a Markdown renderer to "pretty print" exercise questions

REST API to submit user code

As an admin, I want to register new courses by editing a list in a file on the system

As a student, I want to edit my code online

Handle multiple git repositories

Change field to list of courses

Show list of assignments for a course

Frontend: As a student, I want to submit my latest version of my answer of an exercise

Enforce access control

Show list of courses in frontend

As an author, I want to configure the course participants using their email address

• IdP implementation (groups)
• Sync Course-Service with IdP

As a student, I want to see my results/grades for an exercise

• execute code submission
• mock responses
• grade code submission results

As a user, I want to see (only) my courses

Linking accounts with OLAT for results

how do we get olat names. not creating a secondary account if they registered with private email first. for results

As a student, I want to see hints to my failed submissions

As a student, I want to reload the template code of an exercise

As an author, I want to specify the due date of an assignment

After the due date, the solutions should be automatically published

Exercise request sends private files

Create another DTO that does not contain private files

REST API to fetch student workspace

As a student, I want to browse my submitted versions

• Save workspace snapshots in db
• Show list of submissions in frontend

Register course repository

As a student, I want to see my assignments of a course

Students see assignments