Admin tools framework

Admin Tools Framework

The goal of this page is to set out a high-level framework for what admin scripts for use at the command line on a WeBWorK server might look like.

Desired functionality:

• Create (many) WeBWorK courses from a predefined list, adding users appropriately.
• Assign sets to users in a (list of) WeBWorK course(s).
• Update WeBWorK course rosters from external roster data, copying scores on completed assignments to the appropriate WeBWorK course.
• Delete and archive courses.
• Add and delete proctor users to and from WeBWorK courses.

Open questions:

• Should these be in a single or few scripts, or should the functions be split out into different scripts?
• What should input data for things like course creation look like? How prescribed should this be?
• How flexible does set assignment need to be (e.g., how necessary is it to maintain lists of sets that aren't assigned)?