Exam Seating

Rainbow Grades Exam Seating works in coordination with the Room Templates interface.

Add "exam_seating" to the "display" array in customization.json .
In the associative array (includes "id") for the gradeable you want seating for in "gradeables", add a new field "exam_data" which is associated with another associative array containing:
- field: "active"
  type: integer
  
  This should be set to 1 if this seating configuration is going to be used, and 0 otherwise.
- field: "exam_title"
  type: string
  
  This will be shown along with the "exam_date" and "exam_time" fields in the Rainbow Grades Custom Message shown to students on Submitty (if enabled).
- field: "exam_date"
  type: string
- field: "exam_time"
  type: string
- field: "min_overall_for_zone_assignment"
  type: float
  
  You can include this field to require that students have at least a certain overall score in the course in order to be assigned a seat. Otherwise, a zone will be assigned to each student who has an overall grade of at least 0.1 and is in a valid section.
- field: "exam_default_room"
  type: string
  
  If a student is not assigned to a particular zone/seat, they will be assigned to this room with a zone of “SEE INSTRUCTOR”.
- field: "exam_seating_count"
  type: string
  
  The name of the zone counts file described in the next steps. We’ll use exam1_zone_counts.txt as an example.
- field: "exam_seating"
  type: string
  
  The name of the seating assignments file described in the next steps. We’ll use ``exam1_seating.txt` as an example.
An example of these fields in use is:
```
"gradeables": [
{
  "type": "exam",
  "count": 2,
  "ids":[
  {
    "id": "exam1",
    "max": 100,
    "exam_data": {
      "active": 1,
      "exam_title": "My CS Course Exam 1",
      "exam_date": "Wednesday May 10th",
      "exam_time": "3-5:50pm",
      "min_overall_for_zone_assignment": 40.5,
      "exam_default_room": "DCC 308",
      "exam_seating_count": "exam1_zone_counts.txt",
      "exam_seating": "exam1_seating.txt"
    }
  }
  ]
}
]
```
Specify the number of seats you will have per zone in the exam1_zone_counts.txt file. Each line of this file should be this format:
```
<ZONE> <BUILDING> <ROOM> <#>
```
Make sure you provide enough total seats across all zones for your students.
If you’d like to specify zone assignments, you may do so by preparing the file exam1_seating.txt file yourself. The program will check that the assignment zones are valid and do not exceed the # of students per zone. If you do not provide the seating file, students will be randomly assigned to zones. If you do not assign all of the students in valid sections to a zone, the remaining students will be assigned. NOTE: This seating file is overwritten to add any unassigned students.

The format of each line of the seating file is:
```
<lastname>  <firstname>  <username>  <building>  <room>  <zone>  <time>
```

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Exam Seating