Gofer Grader
Gofer Grader is a small library for autograding Jupyter notebooks & python files.
What is autograding?
Autograding runs a series of tests against student submitted code, producing a grade. No humans are in the loop in determining the correctness / grade of student submission.
It is unit testing with weighted grades and feedback for students when tests fail.
Why autograding?
Grading takes up a large chunk of teaching time for many instructors. While not everything can be automatically graded, many excercises can be. This saves the instructor a lot of time & tedious effort, regardless of the size of the class.
Autograding provides near-instant feedback to students on how well they are doing. This allows them to correct course immediately, without having to wait for an instructor to grade & provide feedback.
Scope of this project
This project is tightly scoped to provide only the following:
- Write grading tests in multiple formats
- Run grading tests (interactively or in batch) against a Jupyter Notebook or Python file.
- Provide multiple strategies for determining overall grade from pass / fail results of single tests.
Everything else is out of scope, and should be implemented elsewhere. Examples of features that are out of scope are:
- Distributing notebooks / lab materials to users
- Collecting notebooks / lab materials from users
- Running grading at scale
- Highly secure execution (only relying on stdout / stderr for validation)
- Tools to help build student notebooks (without solutions & hidden tests) from instructor notebooks
- Ponies
This list is not exhaustive :)