| Summary: | This thesis describes an on-line system for the management and marking of
course materials. The interface is tailored to provide administrative benefits,
and time and resource savings while taking privacy, security and reliability
into account. There are three user roles in the system. Instructors use the system
to manage the course material, design the marking rubrics for assessment,
assign teaching assistants to mark assignments and receive feedback from students
regarding exceptions and special needs. Teaching assistants evaluate students’
works electronically by accessing students’ files on-line. Each student
enrolled in a course has a secure personal ”pickup directory” (web page) to access
his/her submitted materials, the corresponding marking reports, specific
deadlines for his/her lab section, and other personal course-related information
including responses to polls and seating preferences for exams. We have
used our system in an introductory-level computer science course offered at
University of British Columbia with 190 students and eight teaching assistants.
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