Assignment/Draft Features/Filter grading by grade value

Filter Grading By Grade Values

This is a proposal for an additional feature to better manage students with certain assignment grades in the grading table by filtering their assignment grades into certain 'view' of students within a range of grades set by the teacher/marker in the Assignment module

Goals and rationale

The main goals of this feature are to :

• Better manage and locate students within a certain range of grades (e.g. for the purpose of providing the students with a 'general' feedback that only suits for the students in that certain grade range
• Provide the ability for a teacher to make her own 'views' and set the grade filter as she wishes in the assignment grading table.

Overview

The current behavior regarding the ability for markers to view certain students filtered by a range of grades has not yet been supported. With this Filter Grading By Grade Values feature, it will take the hassle away from the teacher when they wish to locate a bunch of students who have similar/within the range of grades.

Settings added to the mod_assign settings page

Types of file (text(box), default to "*" (accepting any types of file) - this is the current behavior). This will be enabled by default in submission or feedback plug-ins that accept files and will be disabled automatically when file submission plugin and/or file feedback plugin is not used or set to 'no' in submission/feedback settings in an assignment activity .

[Help text] an assignment creator will be able to specify one or more types of file that can only be uploaded into the assignment activity by typing the file extension(s) separated with comma if they are more than one type (e.g. jpeg, doc, pdf). If this is left empty, file of any types will be accepted without any restriction whatsoever (the current behavior).

As for managing the number of files (except the zip files) and their sizes, there are settings in the current assignment module that are able to do that as this is the current behavior.

Changes to submission and feedback settings interface

Types of file

If Types of file text box is not left empty, any file that is about to upload into an assignment activity will be matched and checked against the file extension(s) specified in the Types of file text box in the submission/feedback settings if only the assignment submission/feedback allow students/teachers to upload a file(s).

Changes to file submissions and feedbacks interface

Text explaining acceptable file types for this assignment

In the edit submission and grading pages, information on the types of file can be uploaded will be added along side the maximum number of files and their sizes that are already provided on the top right corner of the File submissions and Feedback files sections

Use Cases

Teacher is creating an assignment with a small number of students and they do not wish to restrict certain types of files uploaded by the students for their submissions

• Create an assignment and leave the new setting in types of file at its default both in feedback and submission settings
  • Types of file: (empty)

A teacher is creating an assignment for Advanced Java Programming unit and she wishes all enrolled students in the unit to upload source code files with .java extension ONLY for their submissions to the assignment

• Create an assignment and change the default setting for types of file in submission settings to 'java'

A teacher has assistants helping her mark and wants to ensure that her assistants can only upload pdf files as student assignment feedbacks

• Create an assignment and change the default setting for types of file in feedback settings to 'pdf'