Week 11: Status of study deployment

To do the studies, in addition to having all the study materials prepared and some plan for logistics (will people do it online? in person? where? how will timing work? etc), you will need to have the assessment deployed on PrairieLearn, and do a dry run to make sure all the parts work.

We'd like you to try to do a dry run before class this week if possible so that if you run into problems we can use class time to figure out how to solve them.

You should have all of your team's GitHub usernames added to the "pl-dev-ucb-star-assessments" team, which has access to the pl-ucb-star-assessments repo. If you aren't in this team, either you never sent Armando your GH username, or he lost your email…

Within that repo, each team has a "course instance" within the `courseInstances`  directory in which all of your assessments should go, and you should create an identically-named subdirectory under `questions`  in there. See the PrairieLearn docs. Links to an external site.

When modifying the repo, please work on a branch and do pull requests to master. The README in each course's questions directory explains more. Note that the master branch is the only branch that deploys to the PL server, and it must be named master so please don't rename it.

Deliverable before class: I've added all of you as "editors" on the PL course at cbt-dev.berkeley.edu. Two of you have apparently never signed in there. Please verify that you can sync the repo from GitHub (so that when you modify your materials you can get them deployed on the server) and that you can create an assessment that is "publicly visible" as you will need to do for the study. If you run into trouble, check the PL docs, or email the class, and/or bring your concern to this week's class meeting. As of this week the goal is for all the studies to be ready to go.

For the dry run, ask a friend, roommate, study buddy, etc.—but someone not on your team—to actually follow the instructions as a study participant would. They're not allowed to ask you questions but you can help them if they become hopelessly stuck and unable to proceed. Be sure to test both the control group and treatment group activity. You may need to repeat the dry run (with a different person!) until debugged.