Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: Products.ECAutoAssessmentBox
Version: 1.1dev
Summary: Submissions for programming assignments with immediate feedback from ECSpooler.
Home-page: http://plone.org/products/ecautoassessmentbox/
Author: Mario Amelung
Author-email: mario.amelung@gmx.de
License: GPL
Description: Overview
        ========
        
        ECAutoAssessmentBox is a Plone product derived from ECAssignmentBox
        and provides special support for automatic evaluation of student
        submissions, e.g., programming assignments.
        
        Basically ECAutoAssessmentBox works like ECAssignmentBox.  Automatic
        assessment of programs is handled by ECSpooler (available separately)
        which manages a submission queue and several backends.  When a student
        submits a program, it is routed to the backend specified by the
        teacher for this assignment.  The results of the tests performed by
        the backend are immediately returned and displayed.
        
        
        Download
        ========
        
        `plone.org products page`_
        
        .. _plone.org products page: http://plone.org/products/ecautoassessmentbox/
        
        
        Prerequisites
        =============
        
        #. To use ECAutoAssessmentBox you need a current Plone installation,
        specifically Plone 3.  Check `plone.org`_ for Plone's
        prerequisites.
        
        #. The `ECAssignmentBox`_ product.
        
        .. _plone.org :http://plone.org/products/plone
        .. _ECAssignmentBox: http://plone.org/products/ecassignmentbox/
        
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        See the `Installing an Add-on Product`_ tutorial for more detailed
        product installation instructions.
        
        .. _Installing an Add-on Product: http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/third-party-products/installing
        
        
        Installing with buildout
        ------------------------
        
        If you are using `buildout`_ to manage your instance installing
        ECAutoAssessmentBox is very simple.  You can install it by adding it
        to the eggs line for your instance::
        
        [instance]
        eggs =
        ...
        Products.ECAutoAssessmentBox
        
        After updating the configuration you need to run ``bin/buildout``,
        which will take care of updating your system.
        
        Then restart your zope instance and use the Add/Remove products page
        in Site Setup to install ECAutoAssessmentBox.
        
        .. _buildout: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout
        
        
        Installing without buildout
        ---------------------------
        
        Move (or symlink) the ``ECAutoAssessmentBox`` folder of this project
        (``Products.ECAutoAssessmentBox/Products/ECAutoAssessmentBox``) into
        the ``Products`` directory of the Zope instance it has to be installed
        for, and restart the server.  Use the Add/Remove products page in
        Site Setup to install ECAutoAssessmentBox.
        
        
        Support
        =======
        
        For questions and discussions about ECAutoAssessmentBox, please join the
        `eduComponents mailing list`_.
        
        .. _eduComponents mailing list: https://listserv.uni-magdeburg.de/mailman/listinfo/educomponents.
        
        
        Credits
        =======
        
        ECAssignmentBox was written by `Mario Amelung`_ and
        `Michael Piotrowski`_.
        
        The icons used in ECAssignmentBox are from the `Silk icon set`_ by
        Mark James.  They are licensed under a `Creative Commons Attribution
        2.5 License`_.
        
        ECAutoAssessmentBox was ported to Plone 3 by `Eudemonia Solutions AG`_
        with support from `Katrin Krieger`_ and the Otto-von-Guericke
        University of Magdeburg.
        
        .. _Mario Amelung: mario.amelung@gmx.de
        .. _Michael Piotrowski: mxp@dynalabs.de
        .. _Silk icon set: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
        .. _Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
        .. _Eudemonia Solutions AG: http://www.eudemonia-solutions.de/
        .. _Katrin Krieger: http://wdok.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/Members/kkrieger/
        
        
        History
        =======
        
        # Changes in release 1.1 (2009-10-09)
        
        - ECAutoAssessmentBox was completly re-implemented with support for
        Plone 3.
        
        - ECAutoAssessmentBox is now eggified and uploaded to PyPI.  An old-style
        tarball distribution is still available at plone.org.
        
        # Changes in release 1.0 (2007-04-16)
        
        - Added check box "Automatically accept assignments" to
        ECAutoAssessmentBox to automatically move an assignment in state
        "accepted" if it successfully passed all tests.  (Makes sense for
        backens which return true or false only.)
        
        - Settings for ECSpooler and appropriated backends are now stored as
        portal properties.  Therefore it is no longer necessary to set up
        spooler and backends after re-install.
        
        - Indicators are now differ depending on the backends result type,
        i.e., for backends returning True or False an icon will be displayed,
        otherwise the plain result value (e.g., percentage or score.)
        
        - Performance improvements: We are now using portal_catalog where
        possible.
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Framework :: Plone
Classifier: Framework :: Zope2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
