TAAP - Teaching Assistant Application

TAAP - Teaching Assistant Application

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Technologies Used
• How to Use
• Project Structure
• Contributing
• License
• Authors

Requirements

• The system should allow users to create a new lab session, the lab owner will get a TA token
• The lab owner should be able to login using the TA token or share it with other teaching assistants
• The system should allow multiple teaching assistants to join a lab session with the same token
• The system should also provide a way for logged-in teaching assistants to copy student's token
• The students should be able to join the lab session using the student's token
• The system should associate both TA and student users logged-in with the TA/Student token pair with the same lab session.
• The system should allow students to raise a review request to the teaching assistant when they finish their lab exercise.
• The system should allow students to revert their submission request if they are not at queue position 1
• The teaching assistant should be able to see the number of students in the queue, and the system should assign review requests to teaching assistants on a first-come, first-serve basis.
• The system supports multiple lab sessions and multiple teaching assistants to be registered with a lab session so that the review requests will be split based on availability.
• Once the teaching assistant taps on the "ready to accept request" button, a request will be assigned to the teaching assistant from the queue.
• The system should allow the teaching assistant to grade the students and submit the evaluation.
• While in the queue, the students should be able to see their queue status on the page.
• The lab session should be time limited, and TA will have the option to end a lab session.
• Students should be able to view their grade report in the report tab.
• The teaching assistants should be able to view the grade report of all students in the report tab.

Technologies Used

• Java Spring Boot
• Thymeleaf
• HTML
• CSS
• Bootstrap
• JavaScript
• JQuery
• Server-Sent Events (SSE)

How to Use

• Clone the repository.
• Build the code using gradlew build command.
• Run the project using Spring Boot by executing java -jar build/libs/taap-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar.
• Access the application on a web browser at http://localhost:8080/taap.
• Create a new lab session and share the token with students and teaching assistants.
• Students can join the active lab session and complete their lab exercise.
• Students can raise a review request to the teaching assistant when they finish their lab exercise.
• Teaching assistants can see the number of students in the queue and accept review requests.
• Teaching assistants can grade the students and submit the evaluation.
• Once the lab session expires, the evaluation results will become available in the dashboard for download for the next 24 hours.

Project Structure

The TAAP application has the following project structure:

• src/main/java: Contains the Java source code for the application.
• src/main/resources: Contains the static resources for the application, such as files iles.
• src/main/templates: Contains the Thymeleaf templates for the application.
• src/test/java: Contains the Java test code for the application.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to the TAAP application, please open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

Authors

• Ashwanth Manikoth
• Joel Cherian Jacob
• Nidhin Joseph
• Soorya Sahar Puducode Narayanan