cheesegrader 1.3.6

A collection of grading/quercus tools for University of Toronto instructors.

Cheesegrader 🧀

Cheesegrader is a CLI tool to streamline grading workflows for Quercus (Canvas). Its main features are

Interacting with quercus programmatically:

• downloading student lists and student submissions
• uploading grades, files, or both
• deleting comments for a given assignment (useful if you've messed up during uploading)

Convenient file utils:

• sorting files into folders (e.g., sorting assignment submissions by graders)
• copying: Copy and rename a file (e.g., creating a named copy of a rubric for every student in a course)
• renaming: Bulk replace part of a named file with another name (e.g., replacing quercus IDs with UTORID)

Following the prompts should be pretty straightforward, but you can press h at any time for help, and q or ctrl+c to quit.

Table of contents

• Getting Started
• Authentication and tokens
• Course and assignment IDs
• Todo
• Contact

Getting Started

1. pip install cheesegrader
2. run cheesegrader from the command line
3. Follow the prompts

Authentication and tokens

To use the uploading and downloading scripts, you will need to generate and input an API access token. You can get this:

• By following the instructions here... but they were out of date last time I checked.
• Logging in to canvas/quercus and then account > settings > + New Access Token
• Navigating to https://q.utoronto.ca/profile/settings and clicking + New Access Token

Course and assignment IDs

• Course and assignment IDs are visible in Quercus URLs:
  • https://q.utoronto.ca/courses/[COURSE_ID]/assignments/[ASSIGNMENT_ID]
• CSVs should have clean headers (no duplicates, no blanks) and UTF-8 encoding.

Todo

• Implement group assignments
• Multithread uploads
• Write some more tests
• Implement "go back" functionality
• Add student emails to downloads
• Fix typing errors

Contact

• Submit issues/bugs here
• I'm also happy to answer any questions if you send them to jesse.wardbond at mail.utoronto.ca