utmandrew/virtual-mystery

Application for delivering for Virtual Mystery assignments in courses.

virtual-mystery's Issues

Instructor UI update

Goal: reduce the number of clicks that a TA has to use to grade, and add a dashboard for useful info (number of entries unmarked, average grade) and common features (grading, password reset, etc.)

Start with a lo-fi prototype. We'll show it to TAs for feedback.

Add visible timestamp to all comments and replies

Make the timestamp that a student submitted visible on any comment (for all users)

Image carousel update request

Could we provide a caption indicating the number of images in the carousel as well as the number of the current image being displayed?

Show last names to TAs

TAs (not normal users) should see full names when viewing comments. Users should continue to see just first names.

Confirm space visibility

When a clue has a blank line, it should be displayed as a blank line: confirm that whitespace is respected in the translation from the clue to display in the browser.

Markdown in comments / replies

A suggestion from the T&LS: consider how to provide markdown in the comments and replies, so that students can link images and format their text.

Fractional part marks during grading

When grading, TAs would like to enter fractional marks (1.5, instead of just 1 or 2)

Dependency fixes

Review pull requests: check functionality after recommended security updates

Password reset

The instructors were asked to reset passwords quite a bit in the last term. Add a password reset on the login page; sends token to registered email. Also need a password reset option that allows TAs (or admins?) to reset a password for a specific person.

Give TAs permission to switch student groups or PRAs

TA comment twice.

When a TA leaves a comment for a group, the comment submission box is still present.

When an additional comment is entered into the box and submitted, the application jumps back to the home page. It seems like when this happens, the serialized data isn't validated.

Bug: submitting to unexpected clue at clue rollover time

Scenario: It's five minutes until the due date for a clue. A student logs in, types for 6 minutes, and submits ...

Instead of getting a "you submitted late" where the comment is registered and is visible but is flagged as late (preferred), the student currently ends up getting a comment on the next clue (bug). The other option is to deny posting, but posting with a flag is preferable.

Activity log

We need a log of all activities to:

a) verify what students have attempted to do

b) check TA activities such as marking and deletion of posts

Hyperlinks - show as links

Several users are putting hyperlinks into the text fields. Please render these as actual links.

Error encountered on "current release" after final deadline

If a user accesses the site after the final deadline, if they click on "current clue", they encounter an error since the system calculates a "current clue" after the last legal clue.

Missing migration: nimages in release

The nimages field needs to be added to the database via a migration, since it was added to the release model.

Comment deletion feature for TAs

Students are submitting before they mean to: TAs need a way to delete a comment so that the student can submit a new top-level comment.