Features

What this application is for

Helsinki University Department of Computer Science has a lot of courses, where the students create a coding project of their own. The projects are shared online, usually via GitHub. Labtool 2.0 is a website where teachers of these courses can give their students feedback during the course and where the students can see that feedback and respond to it.

Users can have multiple roles:

Every user can

View login page

Logged in user can

View all courses that exist within the Labtool system
Edit their e-mail address

Logged in student can

Register to an active course, if they have first made an official registration to it on WebOodi
See the courses they have registered into
Edit their information related to their course project such as its name and github repository address
See the weekly points and feedback and final review the teacher has given them
Comment the weekly feedback; comments support Markdown
See student visible comments related to the course week
See the assisting teacher assigned for them
See the peer reviews they have been assigned to do
See the final review if the course has one and they have been given one

Logged in teacher/assistant can

Edit course status, info and staff

Make a course they are teaching active/inactive, there by allowing/preventing students to register to it on Labtool
See the courses they are teaching/assisting
Edit the course info, such as maximum points for a week, amount of weeks and active week
Select if the course has peer reviews and a final review
Add or remove a final review
Add assistants to their course
Remove assistants to their course
View all students of that course

Select assistants and peer review targets for students

Assign and change the assistant of their students
Select and change the peer reviewer for their students:
- by hand
- automatically by random affecting all students
- automatically by random affecting only students with a certain tag/tags

Give points, feedback and comments to students

Filter student list according to who their assistant is or what tags they have
See their students' project info, weekly points and feedback if it has been given
See all the comments related to student projects
Give weekly points to students; partial points are supported
Give weekly feedback to students; feedback supports Markdown
Give points for students for doing peer reviews
Use a week related checklist, if it exists, when giving feedback or final review
Give comments to a student related to a their course week; comments support Markdown
Give comments visible to only other assistants/teachers; comments support Markdown
Send e-mail notifications about new comments or feedback

Make it easier to review students and assign peer reviews

Create or modify a checklist for a course week
Copy a week related checklist from another course if it has a checklist for that same week
Copy a final review checklist from another course
Tag student projects and un-tag them
Add, remove and modify tags in the system