VSTU projects

Lead: Sychev Oleg Aleksandrovich

Senior Lecturer of POAS (Software Engineering) department

Core patches

1. Improvment of editing interface for category list. Moving category anywhere should require only one page reload. Developers: Sychev Oleg, Shkarupa Alex. Status: waiting reviewing!
2. Javascript-interface for repeat_elements function - adding new blanks to the form shoudn't require page reloads.
3. Forum thread subscription - a long standing request to be able to subscript only to the thread, not whole forum.

Activity modules

1. New assignment-replacement module with support for individual tasks (with custom fields), several grading criterions, automatic graders etc. Developers: Sychev Oleg, Erofeev Anatolius.
2. Subcourse module improvments - improve Subcourse module to get rid of buggy Metacourses and make it actually useful.

Question types

1. Preg question type - regular expression question type, developed on more solid algorithmic basis than regex one. Developers: Sychev Oleg, Kolesov Dmitry.
2. Auto-feedback shortanswer question shortanswer question which could be able to detect typos and misplaced, missing or extra words and give appropriate feedback.

Blocks

1. Linked activities to allow editing properties of multiple activities at once.
2. Auto role assignment block is useful to temporary restrict (or enhance) user abilities while doing something.
3. Under supervision block is much better than IP filter+time control if you want students to be able to do something only under teacher supervision.

Libraries

1. Auto-backup library - adding very small information to install.xml files it is possible to automate many tedious tasks of programming backup/restore for the plugins.