frontend-app-ora-grading

Purpose

The ORA Staff Grading App is a micro-frontend (MFE) staff grading experience for Open Response Assessments (ORAs). This experience was designed to streamline the grading process and enable richer previews of submission content and, eventually, replace on-platform grading workflows for ORA.

When enabled, ORAs with a staff grading step will link to this new MFE when clicking "Grade Available Responses" from the ORA or link in the instructor dashboard.

The ORA Staff Grader depends on the lms/djangoapps/ora_staff_grader app in edx-platform.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

The devstack is currently recommended as a development environment for your new MFE. If you start it with make dev.up.lms that should give you everything you need as a companion to this frontend.

Note that it is also possible to use Tutor to develop an MFE. You can refer to the relevant tutor-mfe documentation to get started using it.

Plugins

This MFE can be customized using Frontend Plugin Framework.

The parts of this MFE that can be customized in that manner are documented here.

Developing

Cloning and Startup

First, clone the repo, install code prerequisites, and start the app.

1. Clone your new repo:

``git clone git@github.com:openedx/frontend-app-ora-grading.git``

2. Use node v18.x.

  The current version of the micro-frontend build scripts support node 18.
  Using other major versions of node *may* work, but this is unsupported.  For
  convenience, this repository includes an .nvmrc file to help in setting the
  correct node version via `nvm <https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm>`_.

3. Install npm dependencies:

  ``cd frontend-app-ora-grading && npm install``

4. Update the application port to use for local development:

  Default port is 1993. If this does not work for you, update the line
  `PORT=1993` to your port in all .env.* files

5. Start the dev server:

  ``npm start``

The app will, by default, run on http://localhost:1993 unless otherwise specified in .env.development:PORT and .env.development:BASE_URL.

Next, enable the ORA Grading micro-frontend in edx-platform

1. Add the path to the ORA Grading app in edx-platform:
   1. Go to your environment settings (e.g. edx-platform/lms/envs/private.py)
   2. Add the environment variable, ORA_GRADING_MICROFRONTEND_URL pointing to the ORA Grading app location (e.g. http://localhost:1993).
2. Start / restart the edx-platform lms.
3. Enable the ORA Grading feature in Django Admin.
   1. Go to Django Admin ({lms-root}/admin)
   2. Navigate to django-waffle > Flags and click add/enable a new flag.
   3. Add a new flag called openresponseassessment.enhanced_staff_grader and enable it.

From there, visit an Open Response Assessment with a Staff Graded Step and click the "View and grade responses" button to begin grading in the ORA Staff Grader experience.

Making Changes

Get / install the latest code:

# Grab the latest code
git checkout master
git pull

# Install/update the dev requirements
npm install

Before committing:

# Make a new branch for your changes
git checkout -b <your_github_username>/<short_description>

# Using your favorite editor, edit the code to make your change.

# Run your new tests
npm test

# Commit all your changes
git commit ...
git push

# Open a PR and ask for review.

Deploying

This component follows the standard deploy process for MFEs. For details, see the MFE production deployment guide

Internationalization

Please see refer to the frontend-platform i18n howto for documentation on internationalization.

Getting Help

If you're having trouble, we have discussion forums at https://discuss.openedx.org where you can connect with others in the community.

Our real-time conversations are on Slack. You can request a Slack invitation, then join our community Slack workspace. Because this is a frontend repository, the best place to discuss it would be in the #wg-frontend channel.

For anything non-trivial, the best path is to open an issue in this repository with as many details about the issue you are facing as you can provide.

https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-ora-grading/issues

For more information about these options, see the Getting Help page.

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPLv3 unless otherwise noted.

Please see LICENSE for details.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. Please read How To Contribute for details.

This project is currently accepting all types of contributions, bug fixes, security fixes, maintenance work, or new features. However, please make sure to have a discussion about your new feature idea with the maintainers prior to beginning development to maximize the chances of your change being accepted. You can start a conversation by creating a new issue on this repo summarizing your idea.

The Open edX Code of Conduct

All community members are expected to follow the Open edX Code of Conduct.

People

The assigned maintainers for this component and other project details may be found in Backstage. Backstage pulls this data from the catalog-info.yaml file in this repo.

Reporting Security Issues

Please do not report security issues in public, and email security@openedx.org instead.