Marking for CS/SE Individual Practical Part 1

Practical 1 submissions marked:

80 submissions, or 100%

Practical 1 submissions not yet marked:

0 submissions, or 0%

This information was last updated 15/11/2011 at 11:42.

The deadline for Part 1 was 27/10/2011 at 16:00.

2 weeks, and 4 days passed between the deadline and getting 100% marked.

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FAQ

1. Is this progress bar a joke?
   • No, it is not a joke. The HTML file which you are currently reading is automatically updated. This is done by a script which is run when compiling a report giving feedback on a submission which has been marked. Consequently this HTML page is accurately reporting the number of submissions which have been marked.
2. Why does marking always take such a long time?
   • That's a complex question but often it is because your lecturer is trying to check each submission carefully in order that marking is fair, consistent and accurate. This process tends to get slowed down because other parts of the job such as administrative duties, research funding applications, and other things have to be done too.
3. Who is marking this practical?
   • The marking is being done by the course lecturer, Stephen Gilmore.
4. Couldn't the marking be done faster?
   • Proceeding slowly and carefully with assessment seems like a sensible thing to do because ultimately assessments such as the grade you get for this practical influence your final degree result.
5. Is the marking being done every day?
   • No, it isn't always possible to work on the marking every day due to other commitments. Progress on the marking is tracked because I take screenshots of your apps to use in the feedback reports which you will get and the feedback slides which you saw. I take about 5 or 6 screenshots of each app. These screenshots are timestamped automatically. From this data we can extract the following graph showing how this process is proceeding over time.
     
6. When will the marking be finished?
   • It isn't possible to know that exactly, but let's take the time of the last screenshot for a particular submission as the time that marking that submission finished. From this we can plot the number of submissions marked and use a linear regression to work out when the marking will finish if it continues at the current rate. That graph is below.