List of ideas for improving the manual

[markkuriekkinen]

• quick start guide for newcomers: how to get started with A+ course materials and assignments
• Using Jutut student feedback system with A+: jutut.cs.aalto.fi
• Using Radar with A+ to detect similar source code submissions (plagiarism in programming assignments)
• Using Rubyric with A+ for manual rubrics-based grading
• Using Acos server for interactive, browser-based assignments (e.g., assignments whose technical implementations focus on mouse clicks or short text inputs)
• Using the Assistant Lab Queue in tutorial sessions: students queue for help from the course staff
• Using Code Vault: a pastebin service for source code that students show to the course staff (during tutorial sessions)
• Creating multilingual courses (Finnish and English contents) on A+
• Mathematical notations in the A+ course contents (using MathJax.js)
• Using external LTI services from A+ (LTI = the world-wide standard protocol, IMS Global Learning Tools Interoperability)
  • for example, MATLAB Grader from MathWorks
• Using A+ from MyCourses (Moodle, mycourses.aalto.fi)
• how to use the A+ REST API for programmatic access to the course data, statistics, and results/grades
• Using enrolment questionnaires
• Using the A+ teacher's features:
  • course configurations
  • checking submissions: who has submitted, inspect submission contents, look for successful or erroneous states (detect problems in the automatic grader)
  • reading visualizations of the results (learning analytics)
  • manual grading in the inspect view
  • how to export points/grades/scores from A+ at the end of the course
  • Sisu integration for course enrolments
  • student tags: tag students with labels that the teacher defines
  • special settings for less commonly used features, such as
    • mandatory chapter feedback from students
    • unofficial submissions after deadlines or submission attempt limits
    • overriding assignment grades manually
• Grading Scala assignments
• Examples of programming assignment graders in other languages than Python
• Using JSVee program execution simulations: https://github.com/Aalto-LeTech/jsvee

[etanttila]

Related to teacher's features (editing the course) and multilingual courses, it would be nice if there was mention of the notation |fi:suomenkielinen nimi|en:English name|, which can be used eg. when adding links to the course menu on the side.