Github for submitting assignments, even non-code assignments

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Github for submitting assignments, even non-code assignments #30

Open pitosalas opened 9 years ago

pitosalas commented 9 years ago

I teach a course on "IT Entrepreneurship" and I am interested in using Github as a way for students to submit assignments. The assignments may be essays or summaries, they may be presentations or images. I am fluent in git and github myself but obviously my students are not necessarily so.

If I set up one repo for the class, then all students will be able to see each others' assignments
If each student sets up a separate private repo then it's a total pain for me to review their

Have you done something like this and how exactly did you configure it, and how successful was the experiment? Thanks!

tarebyte commented 9 years ago

@pitosalas I'm a grader for web applications class, and we use the sandboxing approach.

It hasn't really been that big of a pain, with teachers_pet it was really easy to pull down everyone's code and review it.

I usually open an issue on the groups repository afterwards in order to leave feedback so that students can ask questions.

If you have any more questions feel free to hit me up!

pitosalas commented 9 years ago

That looks really cool. I am not quite sure I understand teachers_pet but it looks like it might work for me. One question right off the bat: the descriptions in teachers_pet make it sound like using sandboxing is an option and not a requirement to use the tool. Is that correct? Thanks! (p.s. we can take this off list if it gets too noisy. My email is pitosalas@brandeis.edu)

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@pitosalas I'm a grader for web applications class, and we use the sandboxing approach.

It hasn't really been that big of a pain, with teachers_pet it was really easy to pull down everyone's code and review it.

I usually open an issue on the groups repository afterwards in order to leave feedback so that students can ask questions.

If you have any more questions feel free to hit me up!

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brock commented 9 years ago

@pitosalas keeping this ON the list would be great, if you don't mind. I'm enjoying hearing about what you guys are doing. :+1:

tarebyte commented 9 years ago

I don't mind keeping it on the issue, they're meant for discussions, and that way if anyone wants to peruse this later they can :smile:.

teachers_pet IMO is best used with the sandboxing method, you don't really get to use the gem to it's full potential if you go another route. That being said I'm sure you can use some of the functions to your advantage if you wanted to.