To add a new student, navigate to the Students tab of MarkUs (Users -> Students)
Once here, you will see a table with all the students listed for your course. The table will give you all the student's basic information as well as the number of grace credits they have left and whether or not they are Active or Inactive.
To add a new student click on the "Add a student" link at the top right hand corner of the page:
This will bring up the "Add a Student" page:
The page contains the following fields to be filled out:
- User Name: The student's username (used to log in).
- Grace Credits: The number of grace credits you'd like the student to have (if you'd like them to have none or are not using grace credits enter 0).
- Section: The section the student is in (you may also create a new section from here) (optional).
- Status: The status of the student (default is active).
Once you've filled out the required fields, don't forget to hit save to create your student account!
If you wish to modify a student account that has already been created, click on the "Edit" hyperlink and you will be brought to the student's "Edit a Student" page (same as "Add a Student").
The "edit" page also contains a status dropdown menu that allows you to change the status of a student to either "Active" or "Inactive". "Active" students can access and interact with a course as normal whereas an "Inactive" students cannot. "Inactive" students cannot view or interact with a course and cannot access their git repositories from when they were active. Any submissions, grades, and other data they provided however, before becoming "Inactive" will still remain.
Note that a student can only be added to a course if that user already exists in the database. If you see the error message "End user must exist" this means that a user with that user name has not been added yet. Please contact the MarkUs administrator to get that user added to the MarkUs database.
Grace credits are used to allow students to extend assignment deadlines.
To modify the number of grace credits a student has, select the student's check box from the left hand side of the page. If you need to modify a group's total, make sure you select all the students in the group. Then, make sure you have the "Give grace credits" action selected from the drop down menu:
You may input the number of grace credits you'd like to add to the student's total. You may enter a negative number to take away grace credits from a student. Even if a student already has the max number of grace credits (ex/ 5/5) you may still give them more (the numerator and denominator will simply both increase).
A count of the number of grace credits a student has left can be seen in the "Grace Credits" column of the Students table.
Three actions other than assigning grace credits may be performed from the drop down menu:
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Update section: This allows you to update the section for the selected student(s). The available options are a "no section" - if you want to remove the students from their current section - and the existing sections for the course.
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Mark as inactive: Sets the selected student(s) status to inactive.
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Mark as active: Sets the selected student(s) status to active.
Don't forget to click the "Apply" button to save your changes.
To set up a "Grader" account avigate to the "Users" section of MarkUs and click on the "Graders" tab
This page allows you to view a table of all the current graders set up for this course. Each row of the table includes the grader's username, first and last name(s), an email address and an actions column. To add a new grader click on the "Add a Grader" link on the top right hand corner of the page:
This will take you to the "Add a Grader" page where you will be able to fill in the necessary fields to create a new grader account:
Note that by default, the grader is created with an "active" status. If you wish to create an "inactive" grader you can use the dropdown menu to change the default. This can also be set later in the "edit" page. "Active" graders can access and interact with a course as normal whereas an "Inactive" grader cannot. "Inactive" graders cannot view any part of a course and cannot access any of the git repositories related to the course they may have had access to. However, all groupings/submissions assigned to an "Inactive" grader along with any other activity that grader may have done during their time as an active grader are unchanged.
Once you have added a grader, their information will show up in the table with the rest of the graders for this course.
If you wish to edit or delete a grader, then select either the "delete" or "edit" link of the grader's specific row.
The "delete" link will remove the user from the database and the "edit" link will bring you to a page similar to the "Add a Grader" page.
By default, graders are not allowed to do anything other than view and grade student submissions that they have been assigned. If you would like to allow certain graders to do more on MarkUs you can select the checkboxes under "Grader Permissions":
- Manage assessments: Grader can create/update assignments
- Manage submissions: Grader can collect submissions and release/unrelease grades
- Run tests: Grader can run automated tests
The "Sections" tab allows you to manage the lecture sections for your course. To add a new lecture section, first navigate to the "Sections" tab of MarkUs (Users -> Sections).
Here you will see a list of all the lecture sections currently created for your course. The number in parentheses following each section represents the number of students in that section:
To add a new section, click on the "Add a new section" button at the top of the page. This will allow you to enter the name of a new section and then save it. Once this has been done you may add students to that section in the "Students" tab.
Clicking on the name of the lecture section will allow you to see a list of all the students currently in that section.
To see a list of all the Instructor accounts associated with the course, navigate to the "instructorns" tab (Users -> Instructors).
Here you will see a table with all the instructor information. If you wish to edit instructor information, click on the "Edit" hyperlink under the "Actions" column. You are allowed to change your username here but must request a password change from the system admin.
Instructors can also see their status in the course (either "Active" to "Inactive"). Much like students and graders, "Active" instructors are able to access and manage their course as usual whereas an "Inactive" instructor cannot interact or access anything related to the cours. Any data associated with them however, will still remain. An instructor's status can only be changed by an admin.
To add an instructor account, click on the "Add an Instructor" hyperlink in the top right hand corner of the page. You will be brought to the "Add an Instructor" page where you may fill out the required information:
Don't forget to hit the save button when you're finished!