PrairieLearn Instructor Docs

[andrewstec]

Requirements:

High-Level Process Overview:

1. Instructor is Ready for Development (environment setup, has permissions and assets gathered here: PrairieLearn Operations - Preparing 'Ready for Instructor Development' Stage #9).
2. Sequential Steps Tutorial of Running and Creating a Course Example.
3. Collaborated or individually built-out Course, Course Instance, Questions Github repository for CPSCxxx.
4. Synced and tested CPSCxxx in staging and production.

Lower-Level Technical Requirements:

• Build course JSON
• Build course instance JSON
• Build assessment JSON (aka. homework assignment, exam, etc.)
• Build questions JSON
• Build supporting HTML for questions
• Access configured on an assessment (student must have access to a course instance AND assessment to have access to an assessment)

Lower-Level Business Requirements:

• Grant TAs access permissions to course instance (ie. to TAs and Students who need to access course)
• Grant TAs access permissions to course assessments
  • Only course instructors have access permissions to course assessments by default
• Grant students access permissions to course assessments (based on date ranges when assignment starts, ends, etc.)
• Integrate exam scheduler UID with exam-type assessment objects.
• Instructors know how to re-use questions that are contributed to the /course directory.
• Instructors know that they are unable to share assessments, as assessments are created per course instance.
• Instructors know how to implement and test questions.
• Instructors know that a student must have access to a course instance AND assessment to have access to an assessment.