This reminds me of my college days. At Statistical Computing Facility at UC Berkeley, a grad student and I (I just finished 1st year at the time) built a web-based spreadsheet for tracking students' homework and exam scores. We called it StatGrades. One feature that it had was that you could write javascript for each column for calculation/validation. I looked at the excel help docs and implemented most of the relevant/useful functions, so people could do something like:
for the final grade. We used rhino for javascript and the service was built on jsp/servlet. It also had access controls so different readers/GSIs had access to different students and columns, and students could see their own grades. Everyone hated Blackboard and loved what we built, but unfortunately they couldn't find anyone to maintain it after I graduated (I was the only person working on it shortly after I joined). The service was shutdown a couple years after I left.
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This reminds me of my college days. At Statistical Computing Facility at UC Berkeley, a grad student and I (I just finished 1st year at the time) built a web-based spreadsheet for tracking students' homework and exam scores. We called it StatGrades. One feature that it had was that you could write javascript for each column for calculation/validation. I looked at the excel help docs and implemented most of the relevant/useful functions, so people could do something like:
AVERAGE(homework1, homework2) * 0.2 + AVERAGE(exam1, exam2) * 0.8
for the final grade. We used rhino for javascript and the service was built on jsp/servlet. It also had access controls so different readers/GSIs had access to different students and columns, and students could see their own grades. Everyone hated Blackboard and loved what we built, but unfortunately they couldn't find anyone to maintain it after I graduated (I was the only person working on it shortly after I joined). The service was shutdown a couple years after I left.