WIZARD7-SOEN341_Project_F24

Project Overview

The Peer Assessment Application is an innovative web-based tool developed to address the challenges associated with evaluating individual contributions in team-based university projects. In academic environments, teamwork is essential, but it can often lead to uneven participation, misunderstandings, and unfair grading if proper tools to track and assess individual efforts are not in place. This application is designed to mitigate these issues by enabling students to provide anonymous, structured evaluations of their peer's contributions across 4 assessment dimensions. The system fosters accountability, enhances transparency, and offers actionable insights to both students and instructors, leading to a more balanced and effective team work experience.

Identified Problem

In university team projects, assessing individual contributions is challenging. Without a formal system, students often felt that their efforts are either meaningless or unfairly judged. Therefore, this can lead to frustrations, lack of accountability, and poor team dynamics.

Proposed Solution

The Peer Assessment Application enables students to annonymously evaluate their teammates accross multiple dimensions, such as cooperation, conceptual contribution, practical contribution and work ethic. By providing a structured platform for feedback, the application supported fairness, accountability, and personal growth. Instructors can also use this application to monitor team dynamics and individual contribution and performance to help them make informed assessments.

Project Details

The Peer Assessment Application is a web-based tool that enables students to evaluate their peers in group projects, promoting accountability and fair grading. The system will provide separate login portals for students and instructors, ensuring role-based access to the appropriate features. Students will log in to evaluate their teammates’ contributions based on four key dimensions: cooperation, conceptual contribution, practical contribution, and work ethic. These evaluations will be performed on a seven-point scale, where students can anonymously assess how well their peers participated in meetings, contributed ideas, completed tasks, and adhered to deadlines. The anonymity of the system encourages students to provide honest and constructive feedback, ensuring that evaluations are transparent and free from bias.

Instructors will have their own portal to manage the assessment process. They will be able to create teams by manually assigning students or importing a CSV file, and they can monitor the evaluation process by accessing detailed reports on team performance. The system will aggregate the evaluation scores and generate performance summaries for each student, allowing instructors to easily track how individuals contribute to group efforts. Additionally, instructors will have the option to export the peer evaluation data in CSV format, facilitating integration with their grading systems.

The application’s core functionalities include user authentication, team management, anonymous peer evaluations, and the ability to generate reports and export data. This structured approach ensures that individual contributions are fairly assessed, improving teamwork and enhancing the overall learning experience. By providing both students and instructors with valuable insights into team dynamics, the Peer Assessment Application fosters transparency and fairness in group-based academic projects.

Features

• User Authentication: Students and Instructors can log in with distincted roles.
• Team Management: Instructors can create teams and enable to group the students.
• Peer Assessment: Students can rate their teammates annonymously on a scale of 7-points based on four key dimensions.
• Automated Score Sharing: Instructors received overall assessment results, and students receive anoymous peer feedback.
• Instrutor Dashboard: A dashboard for instructors to view detailed peer assessment results by each team and stuends with export functionality.

4 Assessment Dimensions:

• Cooperation: Active participation, communication, teamwork, and assistance.
• Conceptual Contribution: Research. quality of ideas, and problem-solving.
• Practical Contribution: Report writing, feedback, organization and presentations.
• Work Ethic: Positive attitude, respect, commitment, and adherence to deadlines.

WIZARD7's Team members:

Contributions Insight:
Charlotte Glen SID: 40166725 Github name: charlotteglen -> Frontend Developer
Ramiro Juarez SID: 40284034 Github name: CbyRam -> Frontend Developer
Jananaa Mahathevan SID: 40211352 Github name: jananaa -> Frontend Developer
Oceane Rakotomalala SID:40226514 Github name: Oceven -> Backend Developer
Youveng Sor SID:40222455 Github name: Youveng -> Backend Developer
Minh Tien Vu SID:40044988 Github name: TimmyTwoTimes -> Backend Developer

Sprint 1 Features (Goals):

• User Authentication: Implement a login system with roles of students and instructors.
• Team Management: Functionality for instructors to create teams and assign students to specific groups and ensure teams are visible to both students and instructors.

Sprint 2 Features (Goals):

• Exporting Data: Exporting a evaluation data from a CSV file.
• Team Evaluation Features: Functionality for students to evaluate each other in the team base on assessment dimensions (Coorporation, Conceptual, Practical and Work Ethic) and an option to leave an optional comment boxes for additional feedback.
• General Improvement: Debug and improve the application.

Sprint 3 Features (Goals):

• Dashboard Development for Teachers: Implement a dashboard that allows teachers to view both summary and detailed assessment data.
• Data Retrieval and Filtering: Enable efficient data retrieval and filtering from the database.

Sprint 4 Features (Goals):

• Task List Creation for Students: Develop a functionality for instructors to create a task list for students.
• Task List Management for Students: Allow students to view and edit their assigned task list.
• Debug and Finalized the Project.

How to run the project (To be continued)

• Download the application code from the github.
• Install and Setup XAMPP(https://www.apachefriends.org/) for the database.
• Move the application code to C:\xampp\htdocs
• Open XAMPP Control Panel, turn on Apache and MySQL
• Open any browser (recommended: Google Chrome), then type: localhost/dashboard on the tab bar.
• Then press on the phpMyAdmin on the dashboard, then on the left handside click on New.
• On the Database, below Create database name it login then press create. it will lead you to page that create the table.
• Name the table users with 12 column, it lead you the page below and fill the table with exact same thingy in the figure below and click on save: