As a Student, I want to submit my problem set to my Professor, so they have a copy of my submission

[pandasa123]

Background

In a classroom, students need to submit their assignments to their professors for collection + grading. We need a way to:

• Grade an entire problem set
• Submit an entire problem set to a professor

Goal

Students can click a submit button to send their problem set to their professor

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] When a student reaches the end of a problem set, they should see a submit page
• [ ] A student should be able to enter their professor's email address (to send the problem set)
• [ ] Before sending an email to a professor, the backend should check if the professor has an account on the Learning Platform
• [ ] When a student clicks the submit button, a professor should receive an email with the student's answers (MCQ + FRQ) and if they answered the question correctly

Out of scope

No response

Future of feature

After this, we all the basic pieces needed for Professors to assess a course. We need to explore deeper integrations and flexibility, such as custom professor problems, LMS integration, reporting, etc later down the line

Resources

Related to server-side MCQ

Tasks

No response

[pandasa123]

Something to consider...independent learners should be able to submit + receive a grade without needing a syllabus link. @JRussellHuffman + @gracelindsell might have elegant ideas for this

...or just retain the client side grading for MCQs et al and make it an optional "Submit to Professor"

[pandasa123]

Added a few thoughts here

[pandasa123]

After talking to @lerongil, we have two problems that we need to figure out:

1. How would professors know who's submitting
2. How would student progress be saved pre-login? LocalStorage?

This "submission" experience should be only available to a user if they're logged in

[pandasa123]

Meeting with @vabarbosa + @gracelindsell

Start of Problem Set

• Add an inline "nudge" / prompt that says if a student wants to save their progress, create / login
• Mid-progress: store code in localStorage

Submission

• On the last page, we'll have a submit button that students can input a professor's email
• To submit, students must be logged in
• If a student is not, the submit + email button is disabled

How does it get to a professor

This is the trickiest part

• We don't have email sending
• Maybe we can setup a database and add it to the professor account

Next Steps

• @vabarbosa: Investigate alternatives to emailing professor
• @gracelindsell: Investigate submit button
• @pandasa123: Draft a data structure for a problem set

[pandasa123]

Based on prior user interviews, we need a summarised "score", and being able to see what a student submitted.

Summarised Scores

Currently, our FRQ are scored as correct or incorrect. Over time, we can approach fractional scoring but let's assume that it's not going to be the case for now. Let's present the summary with two simple, summary measures:

• Number of MCQ correct / Total MCQ
• Number of FRQ correct / Total FRQ

Multiple Choice Question

For each problem, Professors should see the following:

• Question
• Student Score: Correct | Incorrect
• Student Answer
• Actual Answer

FRQ Question

For each problem, Professors should see the following:

• Question
• Student Score: Correct | Incorrect
• Student Code
• Suggested Code (not needed today)

[pandasa123]

Holding off development on this issue until @vabarbosa comes up with alternatives

[pandasa123]

As per @vabarbosa, we can create an email service endpoint in Saiba. Then call it from Platypus. We need to ensure this solution is as lightweight as possible client-side to make migration easy down the line

Currently user-testing the aforementioned payload, but this should be ready for development shortly

[pandasa123]

On a side note: we need some way of logging the validation response for coding questions.

@vabarbosa: We'll need to update from within the code grading widget because grading goes out to binder env where grading/validation happens & response returned to widget

[pandasa123]

What do we send on submission (draft):

Email Subject

A student just submitted their {PROBLEM_SET_NAME} Problem Set

Email Body

Hello Professor,

{STUDENT_EMAIL} just submitted their {PROBLEM_SET_NAME} Problem Set. We've attached their answers and auto-graded score.

Best, Qiskit Education

{STUDENTEMAIL}\{PROBLEM_SETNAME}\{DATE}.json

Notes:

• Should we check if the Professor has an email in our system before we send the student submission?
• As for the submission page, it could be just as simple as a textbox + submit button

[vabarbosa]

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