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Tools and techniques for large scale grading using Web-based commercial off-the-shelf software
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Tools and techniques for large scale grading using Web-based commercial off-the-shelf software

Robert Lass, Christopher Cera, Nathaniel Bomberger, Bruce Char, Jeffrey Popyack, Nira Herrmann and Paul Zoski
Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on innovation and technology in computer science education, v 8
30 Jun 2003

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Course Management Systems Courseware electronic pen-based markup introductory programming plagiarism detection WebCT
Courseware/Course Management Systems (CMS) such as WebCT or Blackboard are an increasingly popular way to provide a web presence for a course. However, their current web-browser reliance makes it difficult for them to provide functionality that could be useful to computer science instructors. This paper describes our augmentation of a CMS in a large introductory computer science class. It further describes our enhancement of the CMS by clientside software (i.e. residing on the graders computer), written for use by the instructors and graders. Finally, it indicates how conventional CMS architecture can be extended to provide additional functionality that would be desirable for computer science instruction.

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