This summer, my primary goal was to get Submitty to a state where it could be used for courses on Quantum Computing. I also did substantial work on Autograding.

Quantum Computing

• Built a qiskit-capable docker image for use with Submitty
• Created various autograding examples and learning materials for professor and course use. Here are the publicly available ones:
  • Qiskit Circuit Draw Diff
  • Qiskit Tolerance Diff
• Worked on Submitty’s ability to connect to the internet during grading so it can contact IBMQ cloud services. Added an autograding example for this.
  • Networking
• Developed a lab for an ongoing quantum computing course which was graded through Submitty.

Autograding

• Added buildtime errors when a required capability doesn’t exist or an image isn’t on the required capability.
• Fixed tolerance grading to work with various nonstandard formattings.
• Heavily updated documentation on the config.json file
• Reworked various old autograding examples to use Docker for security.

Miscellaneous & Future

• Upgraded Grade Overrides such that an instructor can override a whole team at once.
• Improved student management to allow students to rejoin courses they dropped and notify instructors of students who dropped.
• Improved the notebook interface to work well with “short-response” answers.
• Changed the forum search feature to be more accurate and useful, especially in regards to filenames.
• Improved various end-to-end Cypress tests by removing flaky code.
• Updated the pdf-annotate.js library to use a more secure version of pdf.js.
• Allow students to select their preferred name order in the Profile page.
• Various fixes to typos, spacing, and CSS across the site.