Setting up Markus for a course

Markus is accessed via https://markus.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca

Markus auto-marking backend

~isg/bin on linux.student.cs is a collection of legacy assignment marking scripts that drive the back-end of the Markus auto-marking setup (even though Markus is not really meant for automarking, but for annotation of student submissions only).

The relevant files and directories pertaining to these marking scripts are:

• ~isg/bin/public*
• ~isg/bin/rst*

Relevant configuration files are in:

• ~isg/bin/data
• ~csNNN/.rstrc

To disable these tests and any use of the handin folder on the course account, simply comment out the "post commit hook" call code in markus@assignments.student.cs:~markus/markus_csNNN_term/markus-*/lib/repo/subversion_repository.rb.

• Create directory in markus@markus.student.cs:~/ and update configuration accordingly
• Create database on postgres.student.cs (see config from above)
• Add proxy info to /etc/apache/sites-available/markus
• Check if markus@markus.student.cs can ssh into course@linux.student.cs
• Check if course@linux.student.cs can ssh into markus@markus.student.cs (some courses need this)

Troubleshooting

Restarting Markus for All Courses

As root@assignments.student.cs do pkill mongrel followed by apachectl graceful or apachectl restart, wait two minutes and then check service at https://markus.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca.

Markus Group Creation Slowness

-- OmNafees - 2014-05-01