GSOC_ideas

Google Summer of Code Ideas

Here is the summary of all the ideas we have for GSoC

Contents

• Performance analysis
• Integrating Git, bzr and hg to Markus
• Web based PDF annotations
• Mapping Graders to Groups
• Integrated doc/odt support

Performance analysis

Profile the current application, spot the bottlenecks and improve the overall speed.

Integrating Git, bzr and hg to Markus

Markus can be configured either to allow students to submit code throught a web interface, or to provide students an svn repository. As DCVS are becoming more and more popular, students often use svn2X tools in order to use DCVS, hosting the code in plateforms like github, launchpad or bitbucket. The idea would be to create an interface for Markus to retrieve automatically the code to be graded (student providing a url).

Web based PDF annotations

Markus has a web based PDF annotations module that used ImageMagick to convert pdf into an image, in order to be able to annotate it. Unfortunately, the current implementation limits the pdf being annotated to 30pages: not enough to annotate a full project reports. The whole process needs to be rethinked and reimplemented.

Mapping Graders to Groups

Graders are for now either mapped by hand, or randomly. Professors have requested more advanced ways to map graders to groups (Ecole Centrale de Nantes):

• Map graders favoring students priviously graded by these graders
• Map graders favoring students NOT graded by these graders
• Map graders to all students of one section
• Map graders randomly to all students of a section

Integrated doc/odt support

Convert doc or odt into images, or plain text in order to be able to annotate them.