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Marking

You need to do two things: during the main part of the laboratory, you will be marking students' work and recording marks on your `Generic Marking Sheet'. Towards the end of the laboratory session you will then need to transfer your marks into the Laboratory Book.

The usual way for students to indicate that they are ready for their work to be marked is for them to write their name on a whiteboard. Simply cross off a name, find the machine where the student is sitting and start marking. Your Laboratory Supervisor may indicate that they want you to pick names at random from the marking list, to discourage students from stealing extra time and placing their names on the bottom of the list in the hope you will work through it in order. After a certain time into the session, the Laboratory Supervisor may say that new names added to the marking list will be considered to be `late' -- you will need to record this on the Marking Sheet (in this particular case, note that the date you enter may be the same as that for the Extension, but the student has missed the time stipulated for being ready to have extended work marked).

You will rapidly develop your own style in marking but the following guidelines will help you.

When you have marked a piece of work you need to record the mark, laboratory group, exercise (and whether the work is `late') on your generic mark sheet.

For many exercises, the student also needs to `labmail' the work, recording the mark awarded, and who the demonstrator is -- it is best to stay with the student until they have done this (this is a straightforward way also to ensure that the student labmails the same work that they have just demonstrated).

The student needs to locate the files in the appropriate directory for the exercise they are undertaking, and name the files to match those expected by ARCADE. For example, for course CS2021, exercise 1 may require one file called mbrot.c. The student would therefore need to run labmail from the directory $HOME/CS2021/ex1/ which should contain the file mbrot.c. Labmail is run simply by typing `labmail' at a prompt -- its use is then (hopefully) self-explanatory.


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John Latham 2008-10-30