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Week 38: Instapoll + Presentation

March 28, 2024 By Thang Truong

Project: UT Instapoll

Started on: Mar 26, 2024

Staff Guidance: Chris Pittman

Description: 

  • Task: Change ‘Normal’ grading explanation for non-MC polls #110: The explanation for ‘Normal’ grading reads “Students must select a correct answer”. This makes sense for MC polls, but not for text entry or attendance polls. Change the wording here when the poll type changes.
  • Visual Description:

Breakdown of the task:

Update:

Phase 1: Operation Finding Where To Change

  • Identify in the codebase the explanation of normal (resources/js/components/PageTeacherPollSetDefaults.vue) -> Actually, this vue file is for the poll defaults. Might need to consider: Should we also change the explanation in the poll defaults? ✅
  • The actual location of the file is PageTeacherPollEdit instead of PageTeacherPollSetDefaults ✅
  • After changing the file, need to do npm run build to update the vue file -> The PageTeacherPollEdit works ✅
  • Change the explanation to some other text and test it out ✅

In this screenshot, the normal becomes crazy normal (works) ✅

Phase 2: Experiment with if/else statement

  • Include if/else statement to change the explanation when the question type changes (include v-if for that label)
    Might do something like this so that whenever it detects the question type to “text entry”, the explanation changes to something else. ✅

Screen Shot 2024-03-26 at 3 52 48 PM

  • The third steps include the knowledge of how to retrieve the question type and when to trigger the change in the question type (only use if/else statement is sufficient) ✅
    Might look something like this:

– Test it fully with UT Instapoll

Some considerations:

  • The text: What should the explanation for multiple choice be?
  • Is this the optimal solutions
  • Are there any cases where it breaks? (Think about edge cases?)

Something to take in mind when changing:

  • Whenever the vue.js file gets updated, always npm run build
  • Always use === instead of only == for stronger comparisons.

 

Project: STA Presentation

Started on: Mar 27, 2024

Staff Guidance: Mike, De’sha

Description: 

  • Plan out the STA presentation outline

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j4EJSDJxxyTbDPehnLjNEdy0JwYLmTp3yKytZXwnaOo/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

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