For classroom like GitHub

[sycured]

Hi,
Do you plan to permit an usage like https://classroom.github.com/ ?

It'll be very good to have the possibility to create assignments and students to have their repositories created automatically when applying to the assignment.

For doing this like action (ci/cd, whatever), just having a webhook auto-assigned is perfect.

Regards

[lunny]

Sounds interesting.

[lafriks]

If you have used it, could you write up task list that need to be implemented in Gitea?

[sycured]

Hi, I took some screenshot when I created a classroom and look workflow for individual assignment: https://imgur.com/a/9ZdGkLB

Links to examples about autograding:

• https://github.com/education/autograding-example-java
• https://github.com/education/autograding-example-node
• https://github.com/education/autograding-example-python
• https://github.com/education/autograding-example-c
• https://github.com/education/autograding-example-cpp

[lunny]

I haven't used that but I think it should have the features.

• A classroom could be binding to an organization.
• Owners could create some assignments.
• Owners could add students as members.
• Students could view assignments and create a repository link to an assigment.
• Students could pull and push codes from the assignment repository.
• Owners could add review on the assignment repositories.

We could create three tables, classroom, assignment and student_assignment.

type Classroom struct {
    ID int64
    Name string
    OrgID int64
    StudentTeamID int64
    CreatorID int64
}

type Assignment struct {
    ID int64
    ClassroomID int64
    Name string
}

type StudentAssignment struct {
    ID int64
    AssignmentID int64
    StudentUserID int64
    RepoID int64
    Status AssignmentStatus
}

[sycured]

I haven't used it, just created a classroom to take screenshots.

So yes, a classroom is owned by an organization.

About running test and autograding, I think that adding score to StudentAssignment and having an API endpoint for our CI/CD to update that score could be great.

Another big deal, it's implementing LTI (github-education-resources/classroom#2350 & http://www.imsglobal.org/activity/learning-tools-interoperability) this can be useful.

Another thing is Group Assignment: https://imgur.com/a/Z6MiMOq

[lafriks]

How are tests added for scoring?

[lafriks]

Also maybe this should be made as sepperate project and integrated in Gitea using API

[sycured]

On GitHub it's like using GitHub Actions to run tests...
But using CI/CD can be a lot better if we can interact like that:

student apply for assignment 1:

1. create repo using our start repo (like a fork or better like a copy/fake fork)
2. Add webhook to our CI/CD job
3. When push on master -> send to CI/CD
   We run the job, take repository username/repositoryname, run test and when finished, curl -XPOST final score sur l'api de gitea
4. If scoring is >= $requiredminimalscore, green, show score and repository locked to read-only
   If not, red show score and repository still open to push

Big problem, attach the score to each commit because it's the only way for students to look it and can read an automatic status about tests (comment inside commit)

We won't open CI/CD platform to students

[lafriks]

Yes but how to score as tests only have failed/success how to know how many tests there were and how much of them actually failed and how much there is in total

[sycured]

In my case, it's one suitcase:
For examples:

• Haskell: stack test
  Run 1500 tests across the project
  Process: git clone git@git.school.tld:students/assignmentrepo . and stack test

• Python: pytest
  Run 250 tests across the project
  Process: git clone git@git.school.tld:students/assignmentrepo . and pytest

The output of each can be redirected to a file or just parsed and we had it to the commit as a comment.

For example if we hide all lines before 829, the end is clear: https://travis-ci.com/github/sycured/streaming_calc_haskell/jobs/298983826#L829

I've no failure in that example but it's very clear

[techknowlogick]

As Gitea is not looking at building a CI itself, we do have a status API, and so this would be perfect for a separate application that reports status back to Gitea.

[sycured]

I take the example all time of using a CI/CD and push back to gitea, I use Zuul and DroneCI at this time so no problem if we can push back status, score and comment on the commit do the ping to CI/CD

[lafriks]

Is tests and ci instructions saved in same student repo or it is pulled from somewhere else?

[lafriks]

If they are how to prevent student from changing them?