Project Overview

Our Goal

Our goal is to create an online homework autograder for the CPRE288 course. For this project we are using an application called PrairieLearn, which is a homework framework that allows auto grading and provides grades and statistics based on students answers.

What is PrairieLearn

PrairieLearn is an assessment framework that allows interactive homeworks to be created and automatically graded. This is beneficial for the students as they will be able to play around with and interact more with their assignments. PrairieLearn is also useful due to its flexibility; it allows the developers to create various types of assessments, like homeworks, quizzes, or exams. It also allows a wide range of types of questions to be created such as multiple choice, free response, and coding exercises. PrairieLearn provides immediate feedback to the student taking the assessment which allows them to learn from their mistakes and reinforce understanding before the next assessment is due. Another tool that PrairieLearn uses is analytics. PrairieLearn offers analytics and data visualization tools that can be used to provide insight into students performance and engagement. PrairieLearn is open source which means that it is free to use, customizable, and extendable. This means that instructors can modify their courses to fit the material as they see fit to meet the needs of their students. Overall, PrairieLearn is a very useful framework that is customizable, flexible, and practical.