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We make liberal use of AJAX, because our Rails application will be deployed on a 4-core server where each core can respond to most requests in less than 10ms, so overloading the server is not an issue. This will need to be revisited if the site grows to Stellar’s size.
Evaluation
Users
- User 1: Course 6 PhD
- Has TA experience with an undergraduate EECS course
- Friends with a group member
- Course 6 Undergraduate
- Didn't have a TA experience
- Friends with a group member
- Course 7 Undergraduate
- Has TA experience with an undergraduate biology course
- Lives in the same fraternity house as a group member
Briefing
We are working on a course management site, something along the lines of Stellar. Students submit psets, TAs get them, grade them, enter the grades, and then students see their grades. Today, we want to test the UI for entering grades. You are a TA, and your tasks will all revolve around posting psets and entering grades for psets.
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