Arcade Data Entry (Draft)

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Manual

To indicate that a student has done a piece of work (but at on unknown time), an N can be entered into the date field; to indicate that a student has not done a piece of work, an X can be entered into the date field.

The standard excuse (E) for a piece of work has an expiry date. If the student completes after this date, the work will be marked late. There is also a non-expiring, special, excuse (S) that can be set by those with sufficient privilege. To enter it go to the expiring excuse that is to be changed and type Control-S (^S). Two other values possible values for date fields are an expiring excuse that has been manually expired (e) and non-expiring excuse that has been manually expired (s).

In addition to marks, possible indicators that can be enetered into the marks field are average of other work (A), demonstration still required (D) and demonstation missed (d). When wishing to awarding an average mark to a student, it may be necessary to avoid a late flag being attached to the piece of work; to do this an N in the date field and excuses may be required.

In the case of suspected collusion, a mark can have a C appended; this causes the mark to be treated as zero. If the outcome of any investigation into collusion is that a mark should be reduced, then the reduced mark can be entered but should have c appended to indicate that the original mark has been reduced. For marks automatically transferred from an external system, Control-T (^T) can be used to cycle though the sequence none, collusion (C) and demo missed (d). Whenever collusion is suspected, details of evidence (Q) and penalty (A) should be put into the Q/A fields (accessible via Control-C); for example:

Q: Copied/Collaborated:-todorov9-angelok9
A: Zeroed

Electronic transfer from Assessment 21 (Draft)

By convension, the raw csv files downloaded from Assessment 21, by those responsible for a course unit, are placed into the directory DATA/ELECTRONIC-MARKS. The filename should have the structure: moduleName-sessionName.abc.csv.

Before importing the file make sure that it is a Unix style text file; if necessary run dos2unix on it. The import is performed using command:

../LOCAL-EXECUTABLES/save-data-from-abc filename

Where the filename can be just the same of the file or the relative path to the file.