In this note, we will see the rights reserved for the examiners. We recommend to the examiners to use preferentially to the browser FireFox to use MarkUs.
Please note: the administrators can naturally play the role of assessors. The approach is similar to that for a “simple" examiner.
Once connected to MarkUs, the examiner is welcomed in the software and sees the panel of the different projects he can correct. It supposes obviously that one (or some) project(s) has been created and configured by the administrator / responsible for subject.
As a convention, projects are presented like that : {Course acronym}-{TP or TA}-{Group Number}.
In the following example, the teacher has to correct the TP (practical class) of MELOG #1 made by the group of tutorial classes #6 (that will be the MELOG-TP1-06 project). It implies that the administrator has assigned the teacher as examiner of the various subgroups of this project. If the teacher does not see any subgroup, then he will have to contact the person in charge of the course to ask for this affectation.
From the welcome screen, the examiner chooses the project he has to correct. Once he has selected a project, he finds the list of the projects delivered by the pupils. If the release deadline of the project is not expired yet, then a message indicates him/her the moment from which the session of evaluation can begin.
Given that students can submit new versions of their work until deadline, it is obviously advisable not to begin the evaluation before this date.
When the release deadline of the work expires, the examiner can correct the code returned by each subgroup.
To begin to correct the work of a subgroup, two choices are proposed to the assessor:
- If the examiner wants to get back the work deposited by the students before the deadline of the work (and then ignore the pupils who has submitted their work after that deadline), you have to click on the name of the subgroup (column "Name of the group "). After that, you have to click again on the name of the subgroup (column «Name of the group "). Then, MarkUs will redirect the examiner to the screen allowing to annotate the submitted code;
* If the examiner wants to navigate in the various submissions of the students ~ (and, for example, consider a work given after the deadline you have to click on the identifier (column "Directory") of the subgroup in question. The software redirects you to a page which recapitulates the files submitted by the subgroup of students. If you look the box "Find another revision" you will see whether the students chose to complete their work after the deadline. It is important to note that the examiner can navigate within the various submissions made by the subgroup (with the box "Find another revision"). Then this feature lets the freedom to the examiner to correct the last version of the work handed by the pupils with educational purposes, while applying automatically the penalties of delay defined by the administrator. In order to correct the work before the deadline, just select the last version before this date. To start the evaluation of the work returned by the selected subgroup, click on "Get back and estimate this revision ".
Remark: on the screen which recapitulates the various versions deposited for a project, the field " Name of the group " is followed by one or several logins, corresponding to the students who validated their membership common to a subgroup. It is possible that, due to the lack of time, one of the members of a subgroup did not connect to MarkUs to make this administrative validation. In that case, the submission is considered as valid, but the login does not appear to this level of the summary.
Please note: if the examiner had previously begun the evaluation of the subgroup and would like to resume its work, it is essential not to re-launch a session of "recovery" of the work of the pupils! Indeed, the examiner would lose then the previous note deposited on the work of this subgroup. We will explain how to resume an evaluation and to complete it.
Once the session of evaluation is started, the examiner consults the various files submitted by the subgroup of students (with the line "Sent File").
And, naturally, he can annotate the code: select a portion of code, and click on "New Note" to add a specific note which is not a part of the comments prerecorded by the administrator, or to navigate in the prerecorded categories of note and to click the considered note.
Then, by clicking on “Note List”, it is possible to overview directly all the written notes of the homework, and put a global appreciation.
For various reasons, the examiner can be interrupted in its correction of a subgroup, and wish to resume it later. It is possible while notes were not made public yet.
For that purpose, it is necessary to return to the recapitulative screen of the various submissions (tab "Sendings"). And click, this time, on the name of the subgroup (column "Group Name") and not on the identifier (column "Directory") of the subgroup in question. The examiner finds the notes previously organized and can pursue its work.
When the examiner ended to evaluate the work of a subgroup, he has to modify the "State of the evaluation". In this screen " State of the evaluation ", choose "complete".
Only the administrator can, finally, reveal the notes of the students.
Let us end on a remark which illustrates all the potential of MarkUs: it is possible to annotate not only of the source code, but also PDF files submitted by the students on the software! It is an extremely useful feature which allows estimating diagrams of class, algorithms handed by the pupils, ...
However, in the current version of MarkUs, it is advisable to ban the PDF files with more than thirty pages. Last limit: annotating PDF documents does not allow using, in the current version of the software, the categories of notes defined by the examiner.
But the individual notes are obviously possible. It is necessary to select the zone concerned and, then, to write a note down. A powerful asset for the generalization of MarkUs in the other teachings !
MarkUs does not allow yet executing directly tests via the Web interface (it is a feature in progress). The examiner can nevertheless get back the work of a subgroup of students to test it on his machine. The solution consists in downloading the wished file(s) one by one, since the interface of code note. Just click on"Download". It is possible to get back already left notes by checking the button "Add notes". In that case, notes will appear as comments in the code got back via MarkUs.