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Dodona 3.0 posted on 9/26/2019

Happy birthday Dodona! Exactly three years ago we released the very first version of the platform. Of course we do not celebrate this birthday party without a gift for all our users: Dodona version 3.0 with demo mode, visual representation of progress of all course users, support for the R programming language and — as icing on the cake — Dodona is now open source. In addition, a lot of changes took place behind the scenes to make the platform even more robust. For example, we again use the latest versions of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

Dodona in numbers

# Open source

Under the dodona-edu (opens new window) organisation on GitHub, multiple repositories containing source code for different components of the Dodona platform were published: the web applicatie (opens new window), the API (opens new window), the user manual (opens new window), the configuration of docker images (opens new window) for executing submitted solutions, numerous judges for assessing submitted solutions in various programming languages, and a specific tool for plagiarism detection in source code (dolos (opens new window)). Don't hesitate to send in your pull requests!

Thanks to Rien Maertens (opens new window) we can also provide a script (opens new window) for anyone who needs to migrate code repositories with all their issues, pull requests, releases, ... from GitHub Enterprise to github.com (opens new window).

# Demo mode

Use demo mode for in-class demonstrations of learning analytics or source code from Dodona without revealing student identities. In demo mode, all personally identifiable information fields (usernames, e-mail addresses, ...) are replaced by randomly generated pseudonyms. To make identification harder, new pseudonyms are generated on a daily basis.

demo mode

# Support for the R programming language

From now on, Dodona also provides a judges for automatic evaluation of submitted solutions in the R programming language. Those who would like to create exercises for this programming language can already find the source code of the judge and its accompanying documentation in this GitHub repository (opens new window). The judge is available open source, so you don't have to hesitate to create issues and you need help or want to see additional functionality that is currently missing.

# Visual representation of course user progress

After the positive reception to the visual representation of the progress for exercises in a series, we have also added the same visualization to the overview of course users. There we visualize the number of exercises a user has started and the number of correctly solved exercises. The maximum number corresponds to the total number of exercises in the course.

user progress

# Full list of changes

For a full list of changes, we refer to our GitHub release (opens new window).

  • make demo mode available to course administrators
  • add support for the R programming language
  • visual representation of progress in overview of all course users
  • display icon to course administrators if visual progress for exercises in series is disabled for course users
  • clarify links in overview of all solutions submitted in a course
  • fix width when dragging and dropping table rows
  • convert all icons to Material Design Icons (opens new window)
  • add overview of solutions submitted for a specific judge
  • faster filtering on educational institution in overview of course users
  • send automatic email upon creation of repository with incorrect configuration files
  • add button for directly unsubscribing course administrators
  • fix internal server error when requesting the 0th page from overview
  • reduce number of queries when displaying course users
  • allow course administrators to toggle visibility of exercises in a series
  • heatmaps display entire period in which solutions were submitted in course
  • listen to OS-level setting if user did not explicitly select dark/light mode yet
  • only show registered course users in status overview of series
  • guarantee stable order of exercises in series
  • fix rendering of unified diff for legacy Python exercises
  • allow judges to set access levels for individual feedback tabs
  • course scoped links to selected exercises on series edit page
  • always stay on current page when removing series from a course