Supporting studio-based design courses with django-courseapp
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This document describes the development of a Django-based web application called Courseapp to support studio-based design courses. It was created in 2 weeks to address needs like individual/group assignments, grading criteria, and multimedia embedding for a 160 student HCI course. Django provided a clean object-relational mapper and templating system to build the app rapidly. Lessons learned include prioritizing student wants and making it easy for TAs to provide feedback. Courseapp is now open source and available online.
Supporting studio-based design courses with django-courseapp
- 1. stanford hci group / symbolic systems Supporting studio-based design courses with Django-courseapp Mike Krieger 揃 14 November 2008 http://hci.stanford.edu
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- 3. Background Me Stanford HCI & Open source 3
- 4. Need CS147 Introduction to HCI ~160 students Weekly assignments (either team or individual) Shared visibility of work after submission Multimedia embedding 4
- 5. Inspiration 5
- 6. by 鍖ickr user spo0ky 6
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- 9. What was missing? Individual vs group assignments Studio attendance, within-studio grading & sharing Grading on a variety of assignment-speci鍖c criteria Multimedia embedding support Open source solution 9
- 10. How we did it in 2 weeks Django! Python rapid application development framework Python Imaging Library for some of the thumbnail code O鍖oad the video hosting / sharing to Vimeo & YouTube jQuery for front-end Javascript 10
- 11. Django Background Started in 2005 by a newspaper in Kansas Open source The Framework for perfectionists with deadlines Key features Clean Object-relational mapper (your Python classes become database tables) Easy templating system Nice, clean URLs 11
- 12. Object-relational mapping 12
- 13. Rapid templates & forms 13
- 14. Clean URL patterns 14
- 15. The app Demo Creating assignment Using markdown for formatting Embedding video from YouTube Grading a submission Viewing all submissions from a studio 15
- 16. Lessons Learned Planning ahead and doing the dev work over summer was critical Students are opinionated and will have many wants; trick is to prioritize them Your interface design does impact quality & tone of submissions Likewise, if you make it easy for Teaching Assistants to provide feedback, they will 16
- 17. Next Steps Courseapp is available at http:// hci.stanford.edu/research/courseapp/ Open Source SVN repository & trac for bug management Will be used in future design classes at Stanford, and hopefully other schools Deploying for a di鍖erent class (CS294h) this quarter took only 2 lines of changes 17
- 18. Thanks! Prof. Scott Klemmer for guidance Stanford CS dept for supporting the work Django project for letting us get this done quickly Joel Brandt and Marcello Bast辿a-Forte for previous versions of course software that were inspirational 18