I use Haskell and Wash/CGI for administering students lab work. Students solve programming exercises in pairs, register their pair, and upload their solution over the web. The pair gets a "home page" on which they can see their grade and comments from their tutor, and also submit new solutions if their tutor is unhappy with the first. Tutors have a home page on which they can see which assignments they still need to mark, download the student's code, set grades and enter comments, and also view a summary of results for all students they are responsible for. As the administrator, I can see results for each student, which submissions are waiting to be marked, what the success rate is, and so on. (The administrator's interface is a bit cruder than the other two, since I can always hack the code when I need some more information...). The system also packages up all submitted solutions ready for submission to an automated plagiarism detector.
The benefits of the system are that students, tutors, and the administrator can work from any machine on the Internet -- for example, at home; submission and returns are quicker and easier for both students and tutors, so feedback is quicker; tutors and the administrator have a much better overview of the state of students' work; solutions are kept in a uniform form which makes automated cheat detection easy. I wrote the system for my (Haskell!) programming course, with 170 students last year, and it is now also being used (at least) for our Java course and a cryptography course. It consists of about 600 lines of Haskell and 18 lines of C. John Hughes _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
