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aleksejspopovs / lmoddiff

A Chrome extension to monitor your assignments in MIT's LMOD
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Ability to sync with Stellar as well #1

Open mysticuno opened 7 years ago

mysticuno commented 7 years ago

I'm not sure if this is possible with Stellar, but it'd be nice to have some of these compatible with Stellar as well since not all classes have migrated to LMOD yet.

aleksejspopovs commented 7 years ago

I actually haven't ever seen any classes use Stellar for grades. Is that even possible?

All of the classes I'm taking this term are LMOD-only. Last term, 5.111 posted the assignments themselves on Stellar, but put the grades on LMOD, which was kind of annoying and would probably be a huge pain to implement (especially since there was no consistency in how the psets were named on Stellar, so, IIRC, I would have “Problem Set 4” followed by “Problem set 5” followed by “Problem set #6” etc). In that situation, lmoddiff in its current iteration would still be somewhat useful because it'd still notify you that an assignment has been created on LMOD, it would just incorrectly tell you that the PDF for the assignment isn't there.

So yeah, I am currently unable to implement this, and am not sure if it's even possible/a good idea, but, if anyone has more information/wants to contribute code, I'm open to that.

mysticuno commented 7 years ago

Yup, there are still some classes that do this. 24.900 is one example of it. Last semester 6.021 also had its grades on stellar. However, I'm not sure if Stellar has a nice API like LMOD does, and it seems to me that MIT is slowly trying to move everything onto LMOD, so going forward I agree that a feature like this might become obsolete and perhaps not worth the time implementing right now.

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I actually haven't ever seen any classes use Stellar for grades. Is that even possible?

All of the classes I'm taking this term are LMOD-only. Last term, 5.111 posted the assignments themselves on Stellar, but put the grades on LMOD, which was kind of annoying and would probably be a huge pain to implement (especially since there was no consistency in how the psets were named on Stellar, so, IIRC, I would have “Problem Set 4” followed by “Problem set 5” followed by “Problem set #6” etc). In that situation, lmoddiff in its current iteration would still be somewhat useful because it'd still notify you that an assignment has been created on LMOD, it would just incorrectly tell you that the PDF for the assignment isn't there.

So yeah, I am currently unable to implement this, and am not sure if it's even possible/a good idea, but, if anyone has more information/wants to contribute code, I'm open to that.

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