JSIT
Authors: Isaac Clark, Enze Yang, Tohya Tanemura, and Sark Asadourian
Summary
JSIT is a simple open source tool for creating, submitting, and grading assignments for teachers and students and allows for the easy expansion of functionality.
Current open source assignments submission and grading solutions are based on complicated code bases and require complex cloud set up. This slows down educational technology professionals in creating learning solutions tailored to their institution's unique learning need.
To solve the problem of complicated assignments submission and grading solutions we implemented an system with an intuitive architecture utilizing a code architecture which allows for expansion which allow for the easy addition of new features. In addition, we utilize dropbox creating a simple set up for cloud functionality.
Table of Contents
Features
- Creation of courses by teachers to organize courses.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2adb9739-63ce-4aed-84f2-a4beb4dd4dce
- Creation of assignments through uploading a PDF, setting total marks, and due date.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dc7afaa6-d788-4d5d-a98e-8cae50cdff2c
- Submission of assignments by uploading PDF from computer.
- Grading of assignments by uploading PDF with feedback and entering grade.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c5e3ef9f-1232-4f40-90e6-872d839fdccc
- Students can view all of their assignments for a course in one place.
- Teachers have a view of who completed the assignment and who's assignments have been graded.
Installation
- Clone repository into an IDE with OpenJDK 23 set as SDK.
- Apache Maven must be installed and the project in the IDE must be set to a Maven project. TODO Dropbox
- Mark the "java" folder as source root.
- Go to the "Main" file and run Main.main().
- From here you can create an account using the UI.
Link to download: OpenJDK 23: https://jdk.java.net/23/ Apache Maven 3.9.9: https://maven.apache.org/
Note: This project has been only tested on MacOS and Windows but not Linux.
How to Use
This video walks you through creating an account and getting started.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3502e719-4998-40f7-a340-18807dfe2bf2
Feedback
Use this Google Form to send feedback: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12HE93oHGp-toP4sJcvSRnPij8snQBpyGElFsXGJ1h1A/prefill
All feedback is appreciated but implementation of feedback will be only for bugs when they are able to be reproduced. Ensure bug reports have details on how to be reproduced. Expect at most a month for bugs to be fixed.
Contribution
You are free to make forks of this project but no merge request will be excepted at this time.
(apologies videos cannot be resized on GitHub)