1.1.   Vocareum status

Once you do so, the page will indicate how many records are available for the chosen lab section and assignment. Below this information, there is a table with a row corresponding to each student in your lab section. The table includes each student’s first and last name, their username, and the status of their Vocareum submission, if any.

Here is the description of each student’s status, starting from the top:

• student1 has dropped the class. In the unlikely event that you are assigned a submission from a dropped student, you should grade it as normal - it might be the case that the student will re-add the class.

• student2 has not submitted anything for this assignment.

• student3 has made a submission, but it is not assigned to you for review yet. This is probably because the assignment deadline has not yet elapsed.

• student4’s submission has been assigned to another TA, even though they are in your lab section. This happens very rarely with team assignments when the student has switched sections at least once. You need not take any action, though you may hover over the word “assigned” to reveal the TA responsible for grading this submission.

• student5’s submission has been assigned to you, and has not yet been reviewed. This is included in your “ungraded” count.

• student6’s submission has been reviewed (graded) by you or another course staff member.

  An email notification to the corresponding student(s) is pending. Once grades for this assignment are published on Vocareum, the lab manager will begin sending these pending emails in batches every hour. You will be CC’d on each email that you initiated.

• student7 has been notified by email that their work has been graded, reviewed by a course staff member, and is ready to be viewed by themself.

For student5, student6, and student7, the blue text in the “Vocareum status” column is a link to open the corresponding submission in Vocareum’s submission viewer.

1.2.   Section controls

Underneath the table are some controls and the status of your grading for this lab section and assignment.

• The Refresh button will refresh the current view of this lab section and assignment with the latest data.

• The Back button will take you back to where you might select a different lab section and/or assignment.

• The Progress button will take you to the grade progress page: an overview of the assignments for which you still have ungraded submissions.

• If you have submissions that remain to be graded, a yellow box will appear down here indicating as such.

• Once all submissions for this section and assignment have been graded, the yellow box will be replaced with a green one:

  

1.3.   Attendance

For lab assignments that require attendance, there will be two extra columns between “Username” and “Vocareum status”: “Attendance” and “Override”.

The “Attendance” column lists each student’s current attendance status.

• The date and time indicate when the student opened the attendance page.
• The red text beginning with ls- is the ITaP machine name from which they opened the attendance page.

Looking at each student in turn:

• student0 submitted attendance, but was overridden by mcrees to be absent. Unless stated otherwise, students who are absent earn a score of zero on both the programming assignment and quiz, even if they either or both were submitted.
• student1 has no record of having ever opened the attendance form for this assignment. This behaves in every way the same as absent.
• student2 submitted attendance late. They will earn a score of zero on the programming assignment, but are still eligible for quiz credit.
• student3’s attendance was not submitted. This behaves in every way the same as absent. They need to go back to the attendance form and click the “Submit” button, or you need to provide them with an override.
• student4 submitted attendance on-time and will be eligible for full credit for both the programming assignment and the quiz.
• Notice also that student3 and student4 are grouped together because they are on the same team and thus share a submission.

1.4.   Attendance overrides

The “Change…” drop-down box in the “Override” column allows you to modify a student’s attendance status, regardless of whatever it is currently or if an override already exists.

If you need to give one or more students an attendance override:

• For each student, select the corrected status in the “Change…” drop-down box.

• You may change the attendance for multiple students at a time.

• If you do not need to change the attendance status for a particular student, leave it as “Change…”.

• Click the green “Override” button at the bottom.

  

• The lab manager will let you know if these overrides were successful or not.

• The changed statuses will display in the new records table that is returned.

• The table will also include your username and the time at which you gave the override.

The “Change…” drop-down box may be missing for two reasons:

• The corresponding student has dropped the course. You should not need to change their attendance anyway.

• The assignment’s attendance and grades have been exported to Brightspace, as indicated by a black “Exported” box at the top of the page.

  

  If you still need to make revisions to a student’s grades or attendance at this point, you must contact the lecturer associated with your lab section.

Students are informed that they may receive at most one positive attendance override from you during the semester. You should not need to provide a second attendance override except in extraordinary circumstances, to resolve technical issues, or to withdraw credit if necessary.

2.1.   Submission pane

The pane across the top of the screen shows information about the submission, such as the student(s) name(s) and email address(es), the section of the student(s) and the last time the grade was modified (whether that was by the auto-grader, yourself, or another course staff member).

The drop down box shows how many times a submission has been made for this assignment by this student or team, and at which time each submission was made. The latest submission should be selected by default.

2.2.   Files pane

The “Files” pane on the left shows all of the files that are part of the student’s submission. This includes some files that are generated by the submission or grading scripts. The currently selected file, if any, has an orange icon next to it. The name of this file will also replace “Files” in the pane’s title. You can click the caret icon (^) to hide the Files pane.

The files generated by the submission and grading scripts include:

*.compile

Warnings and errors issued by the compiler. This information is also included in the submission and grading reports.

*.elf

Executable created by the compiler (instead of a.out).

submit.rst

Submission report in a plain-text format. This is essentially the same contents as the submission receipt email that gets sent to students.

grade.rst

Grade report in a plain-text format, as generated by the auto-grader. This is the file you should pay the most attention to, in addition to the student’s source file.

After grades have been published, you may see some additional files starting with .voc. These are essentially duplicates or alternative formats of the files listed above and can be safely ignored.

2.3.   Source pane

The Source pane in the center shows the contents of the file you select from the Files pane. This includes some rudimentary syntax highlighting as well as line numbers. You cannot edit files using the source pane on this page.

The buttons along the top include:

README

Opens the assignment instructions as a floating pane.

Debug

Opens the submission debugger.

Download

Downloads the entire contents of the submission as a ZIP file.

Report

Opens the same HTML reports that the students can see, but might only work if grades have already been published. Instead, you can view the plain-text report files described earlier. Or, you can view the HTML reports inside the submission debugger.

The right arrow icon (>) can be used to collapse the grade pane.

If you double click on text inside of the source pane, you are presented with an option to create an in-line comment.

2.4.   Grade pane

Here you can adjust the grade for the submission and leave feedback. Adjusting the score for any of the rubric items (Format, Technique, Output) automatically adjusts the overall grade, which is shown in the progress bar below as “Score”. You can also click the blue “Full” link to give full points for the submission.

You can click the speech bubbles next to each rubric item in order to leave rubric-specific comments. The speech bubble will change color from gray to black when you do this.

When you are ready to save the scores and feedback, click the blue “Save” button.

If you want to reset your changes, refresh the page without hitting the “Save” button.

At the bottom of the pane it will say “Grades submitted by:”. After you click “Save” at least once and refresh the page, it will be replaced by your name and email address.

You can click the right arrow icon (<) to make the grade pane slightly bigger.