Class Accounts and Submitting Assignments

This page contains instructions on setting up your class account, submitting assignments, and checking scores.

Here because you don't have a partners.txt file? Jump to these instructions.

Setting Up Your Class Account

1. Acquire a class account form (handed out during the first two lectures and in section); or, if you already have a named EECS instructional account, skip to the next section.
2. Register your account
   You should be asked your name and SID the first time you log in. If you are not sure whether this has happened, run the following program from the command line
   
   check-register
   
   to check your class registration information. (Note: This is *not* the University class enrollment system. If you have any question about whether you are officially enrolled in the class, check the tele-bears system.)
   
   If this script returns no information run
   
   register
   
   If this information is incorrect run
   
   re-register
   

Special instructions for setting up named accounts:

If you are using a named account for the class (e.g. bbrown), here are
extra steps you need to follow (for the class 'cs188', for example):

1. edit your .cshrc file to include the following three lines:

setenv MASTERDIR /home/ff/cs188
set path=(/share/b/grading/bin $path)
alias glookup /share/b/grading/bin/glookup

2. type

source .cshrc

3. type

register

If you are using your named account for more than one class that uses the
grading utilities, you will have to issue the setenv and alias commands
at the command line (setenv MASTERDIR /home/ff/classname; alias glookup
/home/ff/classname/bin/arch/`uname -m`/glookup) to point the grading
utilities to the correct class master account.

Submitting Programming Assignments

Each assignment has a name in the grading system (like p0, p1, etc.). To submit an assignment, change to the directory containing the assignment (using cd) and type submit <ASSIGNMENT-NAME>. For example:

submit p0

A submission should consist of:

• -A file called partners.txt. This file should contain a list of all participants in the submission, including the submitter. Each line should take the form:

  [class id],[email],[name]

  for example,

  cs188-ir,john.mctest@gmail.com,John Q. McTest

  The email address given should be one that you check frequently. The grading system will communicate with you (and your partners, if any) via the emails provided, so please give an email which you will check frequently. Submit this file, even when you do an assignment alone, or the autograder will complain. Why? If we do not have an email address for you, the grading system cannot inform you if anything has gone wrong.

• -All files which have been edited as part of the submission. In general, we will provide support files (code and/or data) for each project which you should not change. The grading system may complain if you try to submit these files.

Upon submission, the grading system will perform a few sanity checks to ensure that your submission succeeded. We will check the following conditions:

• -A partners.txt file is present
• -No support files have been edited
• -Your code runs without producing an exception
• -Your code passes some simple test cases. We will provide these for each project

If all of the above hold, you (and all others listed in partners.txt) will receive a confirmation email within 15 minutes. If you do not receive an email, first check that your partners.txt file is well-formed and has been submitted. If you still receive no confirmation email, then please contact us. If the grading system encounters an error, you will receive an email explaining what went wrong. If you cannot discern the source of the problem from the error message, please contact us.

Please be careful when submitting projects. Your last submission will be the one graded. If you have a partner, the last submission from either partner's account will be graded.

Submitting Optional Files

By default, submit will only grab partners.txt and whatever file(s) we tell you to submit. However, you can submit other files if you wish. To do this, you must say no when submit gives you this prompt:

The files you have submitted are:
./foo.py ./partners.txt
Is this correct? [yes/no]

submit will then ask you to name additional files.

Checking Your Scores

To look up your grades run the following program from the command line:

glookup