{"id":904,"date":"2009-12-01T23:15:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T06:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2009-12-01T23:15:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T06:15:15","slug":"spring-plan-ddp-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/spring-plan-ddp-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring plan: DDP projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I said before, I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/no-cmpt-383-for-me\/\">not teaching CMPT 383<\/a> in the spring (but I will be doing it in the summer).  The alternate plan involves the &#8220;capstone&#8221; project that our dual-degree students have to do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be supervising a group of students on the technical side of their project.  Since I&#8217;m me, the plan is to do a web project.  I thought about this for about 8 seconds before I realized what I must do&hellip; there&#8217;s an obvious set of web projects that I understand, students understand, and need to me done.<\/p>\n<p>We have some very old and clunky web tools around the School that work, but aren&#8217;t pretty and don&#8217;t have much hope of improving in the future.  Students will know our gradebook and assignment submission tools, but there are a bunch more that aren&#8217;t student-facing.<\/p>\n<p>My plan: replace as much as possible with modern, integrated, functional tools.  The plan goes (or at least start) like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global: Unified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/cas\/Using_CAS_at_SFU.html\">CAS<\/a> authentication. A useful &#8220;dashboard&#8221; for everybody displaying recent activity relevant to them (upcoming due dates, recently posted grades, recent assignment submissions, etc).  Instructors should be able to copy an old offering to a new one (copying grading info, due dates, etc).<\/li>\n<li>Gradebook: the basics as currently implemented, with calculated columns, released\/unreleased columns, AJAX-y sorting and display of class lists, email notification of new grades (?).<\/li>\n<li>Submission: Per-assignment configuration (e.g. assignment 1 requires submission of a text file for part 1, and a .java file for part 2; both are submitted as distinct files).  <\/li>\n<li>Marking: Instructor sets up a marking key for TAs; TAs give grades and comments; info returned to students and grades automatically put into gradebook.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional functionality suggestions welcome.  I have some cool &#8220;maybe&#8221; features to throw in if things go well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be treating whatever group I have as a development team, not a class.  So, I&#8217;ll be whipping them much more to get good-quality code, not a class project.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s certainly a possibility of catastrophic failure, but I&#8217;d say a reasonable chance of success.  We&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said before, I&#8217;m not teaching CMPT 383 in the spring (but I will be doing it in the summer). The alternate plan involves the &#8220;capstone&#8221; project that our dual-degree students have to do. I&#8217;m going to be supervising a group of students on the technical side of their project. Since I&#8217;m me, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}