Re: [racket-users] distributed computation support for handin-server?

2018-10-25 Thread Tom Gillespie
That is inviting the students with a more hackerish mentality to find ... alternative ways of scoring points. Probably better to not even entice them with the possibility, given the bureaucratic headaches that it could cause. Tom On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:11 PM 'John Clements' via Racket Users <

Re: [racket-users] distributed computation support for handin-server?

2018-10-25 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
Another random thought; has anyone thought of pushing this out to the student computer, by supplying students with a hopefully-opaque executable that runs the tests on a student program and then outputs a digitally signed test result? John > On Oct 23, 2018, at 21:50, Greg Hendershott wrote:

Re: [racket-users] distributed computation support for handin-server?

2018-10-23 Thread Greg Hendershott
Have you considered some sort of yield-management incentive, such as offering a higher grade to students who submit during less-busy periods? :P Although I don't know anything about the handin server, or very much about load-balancing, just riffing: A simple round-robin HTTP proxy probably