d2lmf 0.0.4

A command-line tool to help mark assignments submitted to D2L.

How to Use

A sample command might be:

d2lmf extract -xjcm "Assignment 1 Download Oct 11, 2015 803 PM.zip" mark/a1/T01

This extracts the submissions from the zip folder into the directory mark/a1/T01. The flags x, j, c and m specify that we want to extract any zip, rar, tar, or 7z archives that students submitted, delete ‘junk’ like .DS_Store, collapse needlessly nested directories, and merge all submitted files into a directory for each student.

On Windows, you may need to invoke d2lmf through Python, like so:

python -m d2lmf extract -xjcm "Assignment 1 Download Oct 11, 2015 803 PM.zip" mark/a1/T01

How to Install

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install d2lmf

OSX

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py > get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
sudo pip install d2lmf

Windows

First, download and install Python 2.7 from https://www.python.org/downloads/

Then, install d2lmf with the command below:

python -m pip install d2lmf

Dependencies

The extraction of rar and 7z archives depends on external tools. If you do not have those tools installed, those archives will be skipped.

On Windows, only zip files may be extracted.

Release Status

Note the version number: 0.0.4. There may be bugs, and the interface may undergo significant changes between releases.