Grading is painful. It generally involves (at least in my case) repeating the same thing hundreds of times in a row. This repetitive task is prone to human error and may also lead to severe mental disorder.
cOrr2 puts (more) fun into grading. Try it here!
cOrr2 is a Web-based grading tool. The input is an XML description (hopefully a more visual editor will be built in the future) of a grade sheet (called template) and the output is a Web template where you may easily fill grades in.
Here's a simple example of a template:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- A very simple cOrr2 XML template. -->
<corr>
<head>
<title>ENG101: report #2</title>
<settings>
<unique-id section-id="id" field-id="name" />
</settings>
</head>
<body>
<section id="id" title="Identification">
<gen id="name" title="Student name" />
</section>
<section id="report" title="Text report">
<gen id="subject" title="Report subject" mandatory="true" />
<grade id="title" title="Folder/title page" max="5">
<info>
<![CDATA[
<p>Include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Student name and ID</li>
<li>School name</li>
<li>Date</li>
<li>Report title</li>
</ul>
]]>
</info>
</grade>
<grade id="indexc" title="Index cards" max="10" />
<grade id="ownwords" title="Own words" max="15" />
<grade id="headings" title="Headings" max="15" default="max" />
<grade id="language" title="Language" max="20">
<info escape="true">Spelling (5), grammar (10), punctuation (5)</info>
</grade>
<grade id="order" title="Logical order, complete" max="20" />
<grade id="timeline" title="Timeline" max="15" />
<gen id="comments" title="Comments" multiline="true" />
</section>
</body>
</corr>After running cOrr2, go to its URL and you get this:
Once saved, the output is a JSON file which can later be processed to give back results to students or a report to the school:
{
"infos": {
"date": "2013-12-16 02:20:23",
"hostname": "eeppdesk",
"max": 100.0,
"output_filename": "/home/eepp/dev/corr2/John Smith.json",
"template_path": "/home/eepp/dev/corr2/examples/simple.xml",
"title": "ENG101: report #2",
"total": 62.5,
"version": "cOrr 2.0.0"
},
"sections": {
"id": {
"fields": {
"name": {
"result": "John Smith",
"title": "Student name",
"type": "gen"
}
},
"title": "Identification"
},
"report": {
"fields": {
"comments": {
"result": "Could be better, John. Pay attention to the logical order of your text next time.",
"title": "Comments",
"type": "gen"
},
"headings": {
"max": 15.0,
"result": 11.25,
"title": "Headings",
"type": "grade"
},
"indexc": {
"max": 10.0,
"result": 7.5,
"title": "Index cards",
"type": "grade"
},
"language": {
"max": 20.0,
"result": 10.0,
"title": "Language",
"type": "grade"
},
"order": {
"max": 20.0,
"result": 5.0,
"title": "Logical order, complete",
"type": "grade"
},
"ownwords": {
"max": 15.0,
"result": 10.0,
"title": "Own words",
"type": "grade"
},
"subject": {
"result": "Animals and stuff",
"title": "Report subject",
"type": "gen"
},
"timeline": {
"max": 15.0,
"result": 15.0,
"title": "Timeline",
"type": "grade"
},
"title": {
"max": 5.0,
"result": 3.75,
"title": "Folder/title page",
"type": "grade"
}
},
"title": "Text report"
}
}
}cOrr2 is developed in Python 3 and needs the following packages to live:
lessc is also needed to build the CSS file.
Clone:
$ git clone https://github.com/eepp/corr2 && cd corr2
Compile the CSS file using lessc:
$ make -C less
Make sure the project's root directory (where example/ and bin/ are) is in your
Python's path:
$ export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)
Start cOrr2:
$ python bin/corr.py examples/simple.xml
You should see something like:
INFO:root:Starting cOrr2
INFO:root:Parsing template "examples/simple.xml"
INFO:root:Parsed template:
INFO:root: Title: ENG101: report #2
INFO:root: Sections:
INFO:root: Identification:
INFO:root: Student name [general field]
INFO:root: Text report:
INFO:root: Report subject [general field]
INFO:root: Folder/title page [grade field]
INFO:root: Index cards [grade field]
INFO:root: Own words [grade field]
INFO:root: Headings [grade field]
INFO:root: Language [grade field]
INFO:root: Logical order, complete [grade field]
INFO:root: Timeline [grade field]
INFO:root: Comments [general field]
INFO:root:Starting cOrr2 server
INFO:werkzeug: * Running on http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ and start grading! When saving,
JSON results files will be written to your current working directory. You may
change this output directory (and other stuff like the host address and port)
using options. Do
$ python bin/corr.py -h
to see the list of options.
Within the Web editor, the following keyboard shortcuts should work:
Down: go to next fieldUp: go to previous fieldCtrl+Down: go to next sectionCtrl+Up: go to previous section- specific to grade fields:
ZorEscape: zeroXorSpace: maxA: max × 0.25S: max × 0.5D: max × 0.75
Ctrl+Enter: save (submit form)
Please note that, for obvious reasons, some keyboard shortcuts do not work
within multiline text areas. When stuck there, you can always use Tab and
Shift+Tab to get out.
- cOrr2 visual template editor
- XML template RELAX NG validation
- edit already saved results
- prevent results file overwriting
- use setuptools
- try AngularJS?