UC Davis Course Management Tools

This repository contains tools for managing courses at UC Davis. Most of these tools arose from teaching the STA 141A-B-C series, and are written in R or Python.

ucdtool.py

This script provides four subprograms to help manage student git repos:

• clone: Clone multiple repos from a base URL.
• prepare: Create feedback.ipynb in every repo, based on the Jupyter notebook submitted by the student.
• grade: Extract scores from feedback.ipynb in every repo.
• commit: Add and commit a user-specified file in every repo.
• push: Push to origin master in every repo.

Installation

The script requires Python >= 3.7 and these external packages:

Name	Tested Version	Conda Install Command
pandas	0.24.0
nbformat	4.4.0	conda install -c anaconda nbformat
pygit2	0.27.4	conda install -c conda-forge pygit2
pytz	2018.7	conda install -c anaconda pytz

If you don't use Anaconda, these packages can also be installed with pip.

Once you've installed the required packages, use git clone to clone this repo.

Usage

To use this tool to grade an assignment, the basic process is:

1. Clone the assignments with python ucdtool.py clone DEST NAME. The DEST argument is the directory to clone the assignments into; it will be created if it doesn't exist already. The NAME argument is the name of the assignment on GitHub, for example "assignment-1". The name must match exactly.

2. Generate a feedback.ipynb file in every repo with python ucdtool.py prepare PATH DUE. The PATH argument is the directory that contains the assignment repos. The DUE argument is a due date in MM.DD hh:mm format. The due date is only used to print out the names of students that submitted late.

3. Grade each feedback.ipynb, adding feedback directly in the notebook. Usually feedback.ipynb will have grading cells marked in red. However, if the student deleted parts of the original assignment notebook, these will not show up and you'll have to create grading cells manually.

4. When all of the notebooks are graded, use python ucdtool.py commit PATH FILE MESSAGE to add and commit the graded notebooks. The PATH argument is the directory that contains the assignment repos. The FILE argument is the name of the file to add and commit, usually feedback.ipynb. The MESSAGE argument is the commit message.

5. Finally, push with python ucdtool.py push PATH. The PATH argument is the directory that contains the assignment repos. Be careful: unlike steps 1-4, there is no "undo" for this step and students can immediately see the pushed commits.

print_usernames.py

This script can merge rosters from GitHub Classroom and UC Davis Photorosters.