jan-martinek/peer-blender

Peer assessment-based homework tool

Peer Blender

Peer Blender is a light-weight on-line homework peer-assessment tool.

Docs

• Principles and features
• Case-study: VIKBA05 Computer-aided Data Transformation (a freshman course on Masaryk University, Brno)
• Installation instructions

Features

• Simple four-phase structure of every learning unit
• Based on the notion of flipped classroom
• Learning process consists of
  • working on assignments,
  • assessing work of the others,
  • browsing through created content,
  • and optionally helping others for the more advanced students
• Assignments are generated so that every student encounters various questions when assessing the assignments
• Open to research

Limitations

• There's no backend at this time.
• There's no one-click installation procedure, you need some skills to set up the application.

License

Peer Blender is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

peer-blender's Issues

Charcount and embed

Some tasks need to have "at least x characters." It would be great to have a counter that says how many characters have author of the task written.
Also there are some tasks that are written in html or markdown etc. It would be great to have a live-view of everything we are typing, for example embed from dillinger.io or something like that.

Unlock review request

Student should be able to request an unlock of a review when shit happens.

Add course editor

Add autosize for classic texteareas

https://github.com/jackmoore/autosize

Review status "problem" is a bad name

Reviews labeled as "problem" are mainly:

• reviews where the reviewer made a mistake (solution is expected, often even announced from the review's author)
• reviews where an additional input from reviewer is required (might not be a problem)
• bad reviews (misinformed, evil, snarky, offending, ill-argumented — a problem really)

Something like "waiting for reviewer", "input needed", "unresolved" might be a better name for this.

Check only reviews marked as complete for requirements

It's not possible to save partial review without satisfying all requirements.

Ideas to promote adequate reviews

• current solution: takedown by assistant or a teacher
• better access to various problems in solutions and reviews
• reviews by experts (assistants, teachers)
• ad hoc expert reviews
• selecting role model reviewers after several units

Question-bound review metrics

It would be good to specify and display related metrics in the questions' contexts.

Upozornění na úkoly

Při prvním uložení v novém úkolu se zobrazí první hláška nahoře na obrazovce "Úloha byla uložena". Nicméně ve spodním baru se nezobrazí hláška s červeným kolečkem a hlášení, dokdy je možnost úkol dělat. Toto se projeví až při druhém uložení.

Partial readonly in code prefills

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17415100/codemirror-particular-lines-readonly

Delay deadline for students working at night

Wrong length of review creation

http://blender.jan-martinek.com/review/1341

Do not display “Yeehaw” message when some of the reviews are unfinished

Question has changed: check generated text

Now: yaml gets tested via hash

Desired: generated text gets also checked via hash, hence the warning is displayed only when the question really has changed

Checkbox based review structure

3-star scale requires precisely specified unnecaptable-wrong-good statements, checking for several independent metric might be (imho more often than not) a better solution.

When fixing a review, add any additional comments as a reviewComment

(prevent editing the initial review comments)

Opt-in notifIcation student when new homework is available

Order courses from newest on student's profile

Do not display comment author in review phase

Use „author“, „reviewer“, „assistant“ etc.

Chat adjustment

There are a few issues about chat feature:

• It doesn't start at the end of previous conversation. (Maybe it do but it takes a long time.)
• Sending by press "Enter" would be nice.
• Long text string is partly hidden behind the "Send" button.
• When "Send" button is pressed, nothing happens for a while. (Impetuous people can send the text more then once.)

Add simple install wizard