Resources and Information for CS 116 ISAs

This twiki is for technical details only. Any other duty information can be found in Waterloo LEARN (D2L): CS Instructional Support Group -> Course Admin & Duties for ISAs.

Key Links

Assignments

• Assignment Procedure - An overview of posting, collecting, and marking assignments, with links to more detailed pages where appropriate.
• Automated Autotest Creation and Execution - Descriptions of the two scripts used to make the directories required for autotests, as well as execution instructions.
• Python-Specific Information for BitterSuite - Detailed information on writing python autotests, including how to handle file/keyboard/screen I/O.
• CheckTestcases - Automated checking of student test cases for Racket code. The script provided on this page only handles one student at a time; to run it on all students, use the script /u/cs116/bin/checktests.sh (the -v option is usually worth using).
• TestTests - Automated checking of student test cases for Python code
• MossScripts - Instructions for running moss - NEEDS UPDATES
• AutoAssignCorrectness - Instruction on how to automate the assigning of correctness marks in MarkUs (has not been used so far in CS 116)

Course Webpage and Piazza

• Managing the Course Webpage
• The Course Webpage Template
• Uploading Marks to the Webpage
• Tips for Piazza
• Posting Assignment Solutions - These instructions are very technical; a walkthrough should be written, as well as some troubleshooting tips since this is a finicky set of PHP scripts.

Terminal

• Changing File Permissions when Posting to Website
• Posting Announcements to the Course Website
• Useful Terminal Commands (Under construction)
• Uploading Student Submissions to MarkUs (useful for email submissions)

Other

• Start of Term Tasks
• Clicker Stuff

Non-Technical (To be moved to D2L)

• Examination Duties
• TA Management
• Tips for the Office

No Longer Relevant

• BitterSuite Walkthrough
  • Reason: Automated Autotest Created ie. make-tests.py does this
• Preparing Submit For Each Assignment
  • Reason: This is for Odyssey submit system which is no longer used, now use MarkUs)
• Submission Information
  • "This page gives administrative details about courses that make use of Submit/Odyssey for submission..." Reason: Students no longer submit through Odyssey, now use MarkUs)
• Python-Specific Modules for BitterSuite
  • Reason: These modules are out of date; suppress_prompt is used by default now, and the input error described is no longer an issue.