MarkUs - Student File Submissions

[zarkidtk]

Hi, two questions:

1) Does this work from any computer or only those in the computer lab at the university

2)What about the directory files in a program like sounds and images that are referenced in the code, do those appear or would they need to be uploaded along and have their paths changed?

[mikeconleytoronto]

@zarkidtk

1) It depends on how you set it up. For University of Toronto students, it can be accessed from home.

2) The web-based file uploading interface is more for first year students who don't know about version control systems yet. At UofT, anyone past first year uses SVN to commit their work to MarkUs, which would include sound files, etc. Assuming paths are relative in the work committed via SVN, no paths would need to change after committing.

Thanks for commenting!

[zarkidtk]

@mikeconleytoronto Ah, I see. Thanks. :3 And I am a first year programmer at U of T. I just did a bit of Visual basic in grade ten of highschool and remember having to come in early to redo the paths whenever I took a program home to work on so that it would actually work properly. It was the same when I wrote things in html (long, long ago) and switched servers or changed the coding that's why I was curious.

And no, thank you for commenting back so quickly. I really appreciate it :D

[seebeess]

Hi, this is a very interesting tool. Is it used for managing only programming assignments?

[mikeconleytoronto]

Hey - thanks for commenting! Right now, yes - it's used for managing programming assignments at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo. However, there's nothing to stop anybody from using it to grade English papers, etc...the only constraint is that the input being marked is plain-text.