CPM User Manual (draft)
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1. Log all actions that succeed for this project Log all actions that tal for this project Group size for student signup leave te disable 1 for individual signup ial i edeies Number of assignment versions eave 0 to disable unified versioning How should the overnnew be displayed by default Project Member columns If you are an instructor please skip ahead beyond this paragraph If you want to create a project very quickly just type in a valid course code which will be checked against a list of known courses and click on the Create button This will result in the creation of a project only Project managers and Administrators can access It is always recommended to fill in the second box so a teacher or assistant can further setup the project Also CPM requires uniqueness of the following combination course code start year start month If you would enter 01 09 2010 today as start date people would probably run into trouble four years from now Apart from this the start date and end date are for administrative purposes only the default time span of a project is a full year Other options that can be set are explained in order below e Grading system if the course uses grades either average a 10 and 8 for two assignments phases in the project result in a 9 as end result or sum 6 and 2 points for two assignments phases in the project result in an 8 When assignments are subdivided into phases similar settings2. can be configured per phase e Number of decimals that will be shown for grades in the overview by default whole marks are shown rounded set to 1 for CPM to show a decimal mark e A student group and assignment will always have their grades shown If you subdivide assignments into phases you can activate this option to also shown grades for each phase e Normally students can hand in any assignment they choose When you want to force students to hand in their work in a strict order activate this option This will only work when documents are uploaded by students instructors can still review assignments out of order e User IP and time restrictions will be added to the system soon On the project options page each NetID can be restricted to several IP addresses and or times Enabling this option will result in a performance loss due to the additional checks e If you want to know about every action taken in the project it is possible to activate logging of successful and or failing actions At the moment only the administrator can view these logs on demand If there is sufficient user demand a page will be created where the logs can be viewed by instructors Like the IP and time restrictions activating logging will result in a performance loss e The next option has been added so students can enroll themselves in a project Gust like on blackboard CPM allows students to sign up in groups unlike TAS or Blackboard Set at 1 for individual
3. like the one below NetID Role I PO panemaet Basic Assistant a a Update Remove Members jfmtonino Te acher gt Iv Iv Update Remove Members Permission to modify I Instructors PO Project options AW All workumts AM All members SAM Show all members RA Review all Add an instructor Instructor netID bvanderdoorn Role Limited Assistant Can modify instructors C Can modify project options C Can modify all workunits C Can modify all members C Can view all members E Can review all members a Add instructor It is possible to add an instructor by using the form shown at the bottom You can also modify the permissions of existing instructors in the project who are listed at the top To do this simply select the permissions or new role you would like the instructor to have and click on Update You can remove instructors from the project here as well You can also click on Members to assign specific permissions for an instructor with respect to project members who are discussed next This last button is not yet operational in the new version of CPM but will be soon For now you can manage these permissions by first navigating to a member and assigning permissions there All instructors must have a role in the project At the moment these roles have no real effect in the system but this could change in the future As a general guideline the person responsible for a course should be added as Teacher whi
4. upload and reviewing Note that Deliverable 3 is a group assignment and thus spans the columns of all students in the group The other assignments are individual ones in this case Also note that wclerx has handed in Deliverable 1 denoted by the on the blue background As NetIDs can become very large over 20 characters long only about 7 characters are shown so more students can fit on one page The NetID of the second student is bvanderdoorn for example while only bvander is shown If you keep your mouse still over the text bvander a small info box will show the full name you need not click for it to show When clicking on the student name or on assignments the full NetID will be shown on the next page as well If you keep the mouse still over an assignment it will show the deadline af any in a similar small info box The small info box is shown in the picture directly below Group a W orkcunits wrelere byvander phere Delrrerable 1 E MS Delverable 2 HS HS Delverable 3 MS Delrverable 4 NS MS Hot Submitted OTE The overview screen provides quick access to key functionality of CPM for instructors it might be worthwhile to take some time to click on every clickable item type so you can save time by using these shortcuts instead of taking the long way You should be on your way being able to log into CPM and viewing a project by now Good luck and have fun using CPM Should any problem arise please contact the admin
5. you have set up members or before the order does not matter really you will want to specify what work has to be handed in by students This work specification can be layered just like members can be nested into groups workunits can be nested as well into phases You could assign workunits individually to each member possibly tailoring the number of workunits per member This is discussed in the advanced part of the manual For the moment we assume all members in a project have to do the same assignments and we will thus assign the workunits globally to save time You could customize these globally assigned workunits later for specific students or groups if you would like to do so but for the moment don t worry about that yet Below the fist part of the page is shown which you will see when you click on Manage global workunits apply to all students and groups on the project management page Listed below are the highest level global project workunits Deadlines are shown as Year Month Day Hour Minute format Set a time in the past or keep default for no deadline Order Name Children deadline Deliverable 1 TEN fi Ph ase l f Update Options Details Remove Deliverable 2 abe sitet 10 gt 09 2006 TEF z 4 Deliverable 3 none Update Options Details Remove 09 00 For this project one phase containing two other workunits and another workunit outside a phase have been defined As you can see you can c
6. CPM User Manual draft Complete Project Monitoring version 2006 09 Manual revision September 10 2006 Written by Bas van der Doorn Table of Contents Introduction General usage Logging into CPM Setting user preferences Using the project overview Project Managers and project options Creating a new project Teachers and assistants important notice please read Project management page Managing project instructors Adding grouping and otherwise managing students Managing global workunits applying to all students Grading students Students Signing up for a project Handing in work checking results Emailing the teacher Advanced functionality coming soon Reporting persistent problems and bugs at the bug page Tailoring global workunits to individual requirements Reusing existing project structure for a new project Introduction CPM Complete Project Monitoring is a website https cpm ew1 tudelft nl that supports projects and lab courses From here on lab course and project are used interchangeably It does this by allowing both the participating students and their instructors to view the current progress of the project This takes away misunderstandings about whether or not something has been approved and takes away paperwork CPM also provides a way to keep documents created by students together with a review and feedback of an instructor Furthermore the system allows for students and instructors to email one ano
7. ctors will probably make regular visits The project overview is shown as a table with every item to be handed in as a row and every participant as a column Options to switch rows and columns as well as showing only groups instead of individual members are coming soon but not ready for release just yet In the example below one group containing 2 students is the entire project The project also consists of only one phase and 4 assignments that are to be handed in This is not very useful in practice but corresponds to the way students view a project as they can only see themselves and their own group Instructors would normally see many more groups possibly even so many that the overview is hidden by default You can always search for students using one of the naming modes show search students by NetID student number or full name reducing the overview size These and other options are accessed using the project overview control bar shown below not for students shident naming mode Neti student search Cvyernew display like Lab course Member rows Reload Members Workunits test sroup testIndindual Group 1 mboogaard 1 HS HE project overview 1 Workunits welerx bvander Phase 1 Deliverable 1 Deliverable 2 Deliverable 3 Deliverable 4 Ssn Deana L Handed in late group has an instructor note The group name student NetIDs and work to be handed in can be clicked on to show further details or allow document
8. e length minus extension is 60 characters File names exceeding this length will be cut to only 60 characters The tnaximum file size is OME If you try te upload a bigger file you will get an error message or see an empty page Below you can add a short comment for the instructor maximum is 250 characters Upload lick here you do not wish to receive a notification e mail when this workunit changes status When reviews are added by an instructor you will see these at the top of the screen along with any feedback and optional grades they have given you If you need to submit your work to CPM click on the Browse button and navigate to the file you want to submit to CPM If you want the instructor to receive a small message along with your submission you can type this in the box directly above the Upload button After typing your message if any click on Upload to submit the file to CPM Note that files of more than 10 MB are not allowed you could upload several smaller files though if you do need to send such a file please contact the course instructor about this issue If you would like to be notified when the status of your workunit changes e g an instructor gives you feedback click on the button at the bottom of the page to add a notification click it again to remove the notification again This will only have effect when you have notifications turned on in your user preferences see the general part of the manual ab
9. e to download that members work in a Zip archive not yet operational send an email to that member all students contained therein receive an email when the status of any workunit assigned to the member changes or stop these emails or manage the workunits of that specific member only do that when you know what you are doing 11 Showing Group 1 Manage workunits of Group 1 Go From now on notify me by emal of all events of Group 1 A Ne longer notify me by emal of all events of Group 1 Go Download ziptie with all work of Group 1 Ea Email Group 1 Go Instructor note Ho mstructor note has been set for this member Type the new instructor note below You may enter up to 25000 characters and count as 4 chars and gt count as 4 If you want to use the or gt characters be sure to surround these with spaces Example x2 will result m x x 2 will appear in output correctly lt test gt will disappear entirely Hote that characters that count double or quadruple will only be counted as such when text is reloaded not when typed Tip if you want to preserve all white space and newlines typed below enclose your text in lt pre gt and lt pre gt tags fd 25000 characters left Change note As you can see above instructor notes can be quite long The text counter indication of how many characters are left is approximate as all text you type will be converted to HTML e g amp becomes amp amp Th
10. fit your needs only an administrator can manually change it Feel free to contact an administrator with a properly motivated request e g current display name is too long or you want multiple projects for one course with a different name postfix Teachers and instructors This section is written to explain common tasks to teachers or their assistants The creators of CPM would like to point out that in their view all are equally important for the safety and privacy CPM offers Never leave your computer unattended when logged into CPM students might seize the opportunity to change their grades or download work of other students who have already completed an assignment Also students cannot see individual assignments of group members imagine an assignment created to hold peer reviews A student could then use your unattended computer to view how others have rated him or her violating the other students privacy Students could even add themselves as instructor to do such things later of course this could be logged or noticed but still Do not view CPM to be similar as or even less important than Blackboard CPM allows you to sign off and grade students until recently such responsibility was reserved for very few people much less than are using CPM nowadays With great power comes great responsibility please realize that Project management page From the project list you can click to go to the project options the project overview or
11. hange the display order order in which the workunits appear in the overview name and deadline only for workunits without children by clicking Update after making changes Even more settings can be adjusted when clicking Options which will be fully discussed a bit further down when adding workunits is discussed When clicking on Details a similar page to the current one will open displaying the chosen workunit and its children along with an instructor note box just like those for members If you click on Remove you will remove the workunit and all of its children for the entire project and all its members Any existing reviews and documents bound to these workunits will be removed as well leaving only the documents behind on the filesystem for safety Be fully aware of the consequences this action has and always check the overview if nothing was handed in right before you press this button and confirm the action Further below you find the form to add a new workunit to the project The workunit will be added as a child of the workunit that is currently being displayed So if we would like to add another workunit to Phase 1 in the example above we would first need to click on Details next to Phase 1 before filling in the form To prevent mistakes the text above the form will let you know which place the new workunit will have The form is displayed on the next page where all options will be discussed as well 13 Add a wor
12. hese are about the worst possible choice for almost any situation A grading system works just like the one you choose in project options but applies to the workunits contained within the workunit you set the option for If this is set to Average for Phase 1 for example the grades of Deliverable 1 and Deliverable 2 are added together and divided by 2 giving the grade for Phase 1 If you are not going to add any workunits to the workunit you are adding now just ignore the setting The display order can be chosen here meaning that you are not forced to add a workunit to the end of a project or phase before moving it back up You can only choose values within the current workunit scope however e g within Phase 1 you cannot add a workunit that would have a displayOrder lower than that of Phase 1 or higher than that of Phase 2 if any The grade weight determines the relative weight of a workunit compared to others within the same scope If you have two workunits in a project or phase with weight 2 and 1 respectively then CPM calculates the aggregate grade as 2 the first 1 the second in case of an average grading system Does not affect childless workunits The group assignment level determines whether individual members groups or super groups groups of groups hand in an assignment Typical projects have group assignments with the exception of a possible peer review or personalized final report Typical lab courses ha
13. is sometimes results in a decrease of the counter after you click Change note As 25000 characters is about 4 full pages A4 in a 10 font type you should not run into this limit in practice A final subject to manage regarding members 1s the instructors that have explicit permissions on a member these permissions are shown at the bottom of the page The general project wide instructor permissions might not be specific enough for some the needs of some courses Also groups you do not have access to will not appear in the overview This means that if you have 100 groups of 5 students and 10 assistants assigning each assistant 10 groups by using member permissions will reduce his overview size from 500 students to 50 The latter 1s quite scrollable while the first is not practical at all This also eliminates risks of assistants accidentally grading each others students or possibly giving students conflicting advice in their reviews Add remove instructors to this group Instructors with explicit permissions on this group Instructors without explicit permissions on this group panemaet jfmtonino Instructors marked wath can view all members notwithstanding the above because they have the Show all members project wide privilege Instructors marked with can modify all members notwithstanding the above because they have the Modify all members project wide privilege 12 Managing global workunits applying to all students After
14. istrator listed on the welcome page or preferably report your problem on the bug page which sends an email for you as well as notify other users that a problem exists eliminating duplicate reports This concludes the general section of the manual The rest of the manual is split up in sections so you only need to read information relevant to yourself Skip ahead to what is interesting or do like most users do learn to use CPM by trial and error Project managers and project options When you log into CPM as a project manager below the list of current projects is located a form to create new ones This form is shown below The project options form you get when you click Options in the project list is very similar instructors can access that Create new project If a project with the same course code start year and start month already exists it will NOT be recreated To make anew project like described above you need to remove the old project first Project course code e g ET2805 IN2305 I0 or WI3150TU NetlLD of main instructor who will add other instructors start date day month year fos fos 2006 End date day month year fos fos 2007 Grading systern Average gt Number of decimals to show for grades Display grades not only for elementary workumts but alse for aggregated ones De not allow uploads in a weorkumnt tll previous workurits have been approved Enable user LP and legin time restrictions
15. kunit that exists for the entire project Workunit name Choose a grading system Average Which place does this workumnt take in the project 5 Example 1 Grade weight i a Example 1 normal 2 counts double Group assignment level this workumntt is performed by individual gt Maximum grade ho Example 10 standard 20 French 100 without decimals Deadline day month year today 09 00 means no deadhine 10 og 2006 Deadline time but fit is currently before 09 00 set it in past og oo Version count members will get one by random Warning do not also set version below if you set this Version fixed for this workunit and any children Warning do not also set version count above if you set this only applicable to workunits that will be handed in or signed off example not for project phases Add workunit As you can see workunits have quite a few options to be set First of all a name must be chosen which will be shown in the project overview Do not use long names as these will not fit into the overview layout nicely and cause multiple lines to be used for one name reducing the useful display area Common names like Analysis Design Implementation Tests or Assignment 1 will not be a problem however Make sure students and assistants can relate to these names or nobody will know where to sign something off Although empty names are possible t
16. le assistants should have one of the other roles possibly with full permissions however Once again for now a Limited assistant and Teacher with equal permissions can do exactly the same things Two permissions that deserve special mentioning here are view all members and review all members The first means an instructor will be able to view all members in the project download their work and view their instructor notes The second means an instructor has the permission to review sign off or grade the work of any member in the project Although the review all permission is worth little without the show all permission it is important not to mix up the two Adding grouping and otherwise managing students The topmost button of the project management options is Manage project members grouping and their properties If you click on this button you will see the page shown below in several parts First of all the current top level members of the project Listed below are all top level members of project Ontwerppracticum Group 1 letails Remove Group 2 letails Remove Shown here are only two groups a typical project would have many or vast numbers of individual students instead If you click Details you will switch to another view of members with more options These are deliberately hidden for the root members as they should not be accidentally modified Removing will remove the member any sub members a
17. n case you want to create your own group or no groups to jon are listed below please click on the button here New group Group 2 fowbos If any groups to join exist at the moment you can select one and then click on Join group If no groups are listed or you want to start a group of your own click New group Whatever you choose to do please try to fill up existing groups as much as possible because as an instructor you want to see 20 groups with about 5 member if 5 is the desired group size might be 2 in other cases not 100 groups of just 1 member After clicking either button you will be added to the project automatically and the project list will now show you the Overview and Email teacher buttons like shown in the general section of this manual 17 Handing in work checking results Viewing your results can be done in the project overview itself discussed in the general section You can click on a workunit to see details like the feedback given by the instructor or to submit your work to CPM When you do so you will see the following screen Deliverable 1 of bvanderdoorn does not yet contain any workunits showing reviews Well done make sure you keep writing this many high quality comments in your programming code Uploaded documents Document Upload Date Comments File 5 ClassInspector java 10 Sep 2006 21 22 Download Upload document for review Upload files Browse Mazmun fle nam
18. n see they share the overview button but the students only other option is emailing the teacher while the instructors can configure project options manage the project or remove it They would need to have been granted permission to do all that currently only few people can actually remove projects instructor Name Display Name ET2805 2006 08 Ontwerppracticum Overview Options fel ataley Remove student Name Display Name ETz8505_2006_08 Ontwerppracticurmn iy Email teacher welcome screen C ompiete P ROJECT Monitoring fu Delft Technische Universiteit Delft Logn Welcome to CPM Please log in here Use your NetlD gt Forgot your password Eest bug hunters for CPM For the full ist or reporting of bugs please go to the bugs page Username Fassword Copyright 2005 all rights reserved For assistance please contact the administrator Wendy Clerx Bas van der Doorn ia ote paste the CSS file or page source inte validator as they do not work with SSL Setting user preferences If you click the button User preferences at the top of the project list you can choose to enable the reception of notifications by email whether the notifications should be bundled in a daily summary and how many members CPM is allowed to show in an overview screen before showing a warning You will never receive email from CPM unless somebody uses it to send you an email or you have both turned on notifications in
19. nd all work performed by them For security reasons their work is left on the file system and on backups of course It goes without saying one should be totally aware of what he is doing when clicking this button and approving the operation Next are the possibilities for adding students They are not only shown on this page but also on detail pages of members If you add students or groups on this page they will be added to the project root If you add them on a member details page they will be added as children of the member shown Note that you cannot group students once they are in the project currently on request this can be added in the future Add group Generate name and number M or type a group name here Add group Add student Student net or student number Add student The options for adding groups or students are quite limited you just add them without specifying any options Auto numbers for groups will create group names like Group I Group 2 etc If you do not intend to call your groups anything specific it is suggested you leave auto numbering activated for all groups you create guaranteeing project wide unique group names Adding 300 students using the forms above is a real pain therefore CPM also features the possibility to add a list of students You can even have groups created automatically based on the list using auto numbering The input box is usually larger than shown in the picture b
20. out this 18 Emailing the teacher If you click on Email teacher in the project list you will see the following screen Mail all instructors Wail only this instructor Subject Ontwerppracticur B M va n der Doorn instructor is assigned to you Message contents Attachment Browse Note total message size including attachments must be smaller than 10 ME You can choose which instructor to email or choose to email all instructors for a given course If any instructor is assigned specifically to you these will be listed as such and should be your first contact about the course Project wide instructors have permissions to see and possibly review all students but will be less aware of your personal situation and history Type the message you would like to send in the box plain text and possibly include an attachment Any emails sent through CPM will include the email address you set in your NetID info at https netid tudelft nl so make sure this is a valid address or instructor replies will not reach you When you are done typing and attaching click Send The advanced section will come soon 19
21. oved version later so you will know exactly which version it was you graded Once handed in documents cannot be altered or removed by students or instructors This is done so that it will always be clear what a student has produced for a given course 15 Deliverable 3 of Group 6 does not yet contain any workunits showing reviews Review this work unit Review Document Upload Date Comments File C 4 testOvenraew html 10 Sep 2006 20 30 Download Ho document You may enter up to 25000 characters and count as 2 chars and gt count as 4 If you want to use the or gt characters be sure to surround these with spaces Example x lt 2 wall result m x z 2 will appear in output correctly lt test gt will disappear entirely Hote that characters that count double or quadruple wall only be counted as such when text is reloaded not when typed Tip you want to preserve all white space and newlines typed below enclose your text in lt pre gt and lt pre gt tags 25000 characters let Hew status Approved T note f you choose not_submutted no review will be recorded for mcorrect uploads only Enter the optional grade tor this deliverable Maximum grade 10 Enter optional name for this review here Sub rat review 16 Students As a student you will only see a very small portion of CPM yet you are among the largest group of its users The creators of CPM take the student functionality very se
22. riously and hope you will share any good ideas about improving the system you may have CPM will allow you to view your current status in any project you have been signed up for You can do this from any location just like Blackboard You also login to CPM with the same account as Blackboard If a project requires you to do so you can hand in your work by uploading files to the system Any file type is accepted by CPM but make sure that the instructor you are submitting it to can also handle it If you are not supposed to upload your work to CPM instructors will probably sign off or grade your assignments based on real life meetings or email In any case you can still view your current status Unlike Blackboard CPM will allow you to view your progress during a course not only after Signing up for a project If the instructor of a project has activated the sign up system of CPM for his course you can choose to sign yourself up If the course requires so you can also sign up in groups with your fellow students To sign up first click the Sign up button next to the course you want to join in the project list 1f the course is missing signups are disabled if you see other buttons you are already signed up Signup page for Ontwerppracticum Below are listed several incomplete groups you could jom The teacher would like groups to consist of 4 students Itis not possible to join a group that already has that many students in tt through CPM I
23. sign ups 2 for groups of at most two and 5 for groups of at most 5 Feedback on this function would be much appreciated by the administrator as it is brand new e If you have different versions of your assignments and would like students to have the same version throughout the course type in the number of different versions here These versions will then be randomly assigned over the students This feature is still highly experimental at the moment of writing so it might be best to first consult with an administrator of CPM before using it e Finally it is possible to choose how you would like the overview to be shown by default For projects most users prefer to see the project members at the top and workunits in rows Most lab courses however favor displaying each member as a row and the workunits at the top The default can always be overridden by instructors through the project overview control bar Students always get the project view as they only have a limited amount of information to display anyway After choosing the correct options and filling in the form click on Create to have a project created The page will refresh and the new project will be shown in the project list You can change all options selected above by clicking on Options in the project list A last note on creating projects and setting options the display name of a project is automatically retrieved based on the course code you enter If for some reason it does not
24. ther Instructors will be happy to download a grade sheet that can be read into Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc at the push of a button while having the opportunity to insert a list of students and automatically grouping them just as easy CPM was created from scratch but several great concepts were taken from older systems Most notably RAP Rapid Assistance to Projects which introduced the project overview screen allowing users to very quickly see the current status of their group s and assignment s The authors of CPM Wendy Clerx and Bas van der Doorn would like to thank Ruben Stranders Edwin de Gier and Jonathan Joubert for their ideas and input when we first started to build CPM in 2005 The manual now in front of you describes an overhauled CPM system much better equipped to handle lab courses offering some novel project features as well General usage Logging into CPM When first contacting CPM at https cpm ew1 tudelft nl you will be shown the welcome page You can log in here by using your NetID account which is the same name and password you use to login to blackboard The welcome screen is shown on the next page After you login to CPM you will see a list of projects you have access to Project managers will see all projects that exist in CPM students and instructors will see only those projects they have access to A typical instructor and student project description line from the project list are shown below As you ca
25. to manage the project When you click Manage you will go to the page shown below Listed below are the management options for this project Manage project members grouping and ther properties Go Manage instructors and ther promliges Go Manage global workuruts apply to all students and groups Go Download aptle contawung all work tor this project Not me by e mail of all events in this project Remove all my nottications trom this project Send an email to everyone in this project Download grade sheet with partial results Download grade sheet with only frushed members On this page you can manage all aspects of the project except for project options If a shortcut to options is desired an administrator can easily add that of course We will start by discussing the instructors after that the members and finally the workunits The other buttons are assumed to be self explanatory Do note that downloading a zipfile with all work of the project is not yet operational If you have questions regarding them or would like the manual to include an explanation please contact an administrator Managing project instructors CPM treats teachers and assistants in a very similar way They are both added to a project as instructors only permissions may vary There are several default roles to choose from but before we come to all that click on Manage instructors and their privileges on the project management page You will see a page that looks
26. uld activate this to see if any changes occur eliminating the need to check CPM regularly if some students have been granted extra time More on this is found in the user preference section Check here if you do not wish to receive a notification e mail when any workunits in this project changes status Click here if you wish to recerve a notiication e mail when any workunits in this project changes status Grading students When you click on a workunit for a student in the project overview you will get the possibility to add a review for that members workunit Students can upload documents to CPM for instance a text report a zipfile with their programming code or models any file goes really You will see the workunit status change in the overview and possibly be notified by email that it did automatically when work is handed in You will see a list of uploaded documents or a prompt that no documents have been uploaded yet After downloading and inspecting any documents if needed write your feedback set the new status type in the optional grade and if you are adding multiple reviews on different aspects of an assignment type a name as well is anybody using this or see a use for this feature Only one review grade can be in effect at the moment though despite possibly different review names this will always be the last grade entered by the user for any review Selecting a document to review will help you if students hand in an impr
27. ut this would take up too much space in the manual 10 Add a list of students Enter the student netLDs or student numbers each on a new line in the box below ae Preferred group size leave at U for ne group creation fo If the number of students is not a multiple of the group size exactly should the size of some groups be incremented or decremented by 17 Decrease Increase should the students be assigned randomly to groups or im order Random Ordered Add students A final option which can be quite useful is choosing whether to add the students in the order listed or randomized The random implementation used by CPM is not superb comes from a standard programming library but if more than a few students are added it will do the job nicely Note that randomizing the addition of non grouped students is also possible although not very useful A final note if you set a group size of 1 each student will be contained in his own group When you click on the details button for any root project member you will go to another page offering more options for that member Remember you can also add sub members on that page You can also set an instructor note for the member which only instructors can read If you want to write down something important and private concerning a member this is the place e g late start due to illness or completed all but the last assignment already last year Finaly you can choos
28. ve only assignments for individual students or assignments for small student groups The maximum grade is simply that the maximum grade that can be awarded for a workunit Does not affect workunits containing other workunits 14 Deadlines will not prevent students from handing in their work or assistants giving reviews A missed deadline will be marked in the overview by a special L Does not affect workunits containing other workunits Version count and Version are the last properties to set If you set one you should not set the other or unexpected behavior will result If you set a version for an assignment everybody gets assigned the same version making it a poor choice for a global workunit If you set Version count however each student will get assigned one version out of 1 Version count by random Changing this value will reassign the versions so students might have a different version than before Once you have chosen the options you would like click Add workunit to add the workunit to the current scope If you wish to add child workunits click on the Details button next to the workunit in the list and add the children A final thing you can do is set notifications on workunits meaning you will get a notification e mail or daily summary when the status of the workunit a child workunit or a member instantiation of the global workunit changes For instance in a lab course that is past the final deadline already you co
29. your user preferences and have set a notification on some project member or workunit Daily summaries will only be sent if they are non empty further minimizing the email you receive from CPM Note that if you set your maximum overview members to unlimited every time you view the project overview a very large amount of time could be taken to produce this for a very large project at busy hours that is costing you more time waiting and scrolling than it would have taken to search for a specific member and generating a small overview with only the search results The choice is yours but unlimited is certainly not always beneficial 50 members seems a reasonable default as there is already some scrolling involved but it will still load in under a second even with quite a few workunits given that the server is not under heavy load Suggestions concerning new or existing user preferences are most welcome User preferences for bas Warning if you choose to receive notifications but do not choose to receive them in a daily summary you could receive many e mails in one day Language English Recenre notifications Iw Recerre notification summary Iw Mazmun amount of members shown in ovennew without prompt BO 0 for unlimited Using the project overview The first button shown in the project list for either a student or instructor is titled Overview When clicked it will bring up the project overview the central screen where instru
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