Reply To: Growing Dissatisfaction with CGCookie

[Markus Berg]

@jgonzalez Thank you for taking the time to respond to this thread. I’m sure that most people that have been around for a little while knows you’re a small crew and you’re all working hard. And we’re all grateful for the time you guys put into this. And that’s why we only blame the doodlers, and not the CGC crew! Ok just kidding, we’re not blaming anyone.

Probably I’m just wasting bandwidth here, but I’ll chip in with some ideas. And if they are bad ideas, then at least we know what wouldn’t work. 🙂

1. I don’t really know how the grading is implemented on the back end, but let’s say for argument’s sake that each submission requires 5 votes to be considered either a pass or fail. I’m guessing an instructions vote is also considered as one!? If so, probably it should be either counted as two or maybe better, as 5. Otherwise, if 4 members vote a pass but then an instructor comes in and finds an issue and votes a fail it would still pass?! At least would help get through the grading faster. 

2. Maybe a counter on the “view submissions” page. Something like, “X exercises left to be graded”. Perhaps redundant. Just an idea to further stress how much is left once you open the page.

3. I do think that maybe you should only be able to grade something you’ve passed yourself. But yeah… Would possibly increase the load on the crew and go against community spirit or something like that. But would improve the quality slightly.

I really thought I was going to have more time to think of some ideas, but I have to get back to work. I apologize if I’m wasting everyone’s times with my long posts.  🙂