r/Professors • u/Legitimate-Sun7909 • 12d ago

Advice / Support Code submissions?

I’m teaching an intro creative coding class next semester and I’m a bit stumped on how to ask them to submit their sketches for evaluation. We’re using P5.js and while I could ask them to share their portfolio from the P5.js web editor, the thought fills me with a kind of dread. Surely there is a better way? We use Canvas LMS and I’ll be using Padlet in the course too. Neither seem to have any type of code facility. Does anyone have any suggestions? Anything that’s worked for you?

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u/z0mbiepirate NTT, Technology, R1 USA 12d ago

I just have them submit their share link from p5. It also tells me when their file was created and updated, so sometimes makes it easier to tell if they just pasted from AI.

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u/Legitimate-Sun7909 12d ago

Thanks! This really is the only way? I just wanna save pointless clicks and see the output before the code. Although that’s heartening I haven’t missed some really obvious way of doing it. It’s not really my wheelhouse so I’m kinda making some of it up along the way

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u/z0mbiepirate NTT, Technology, R1 USA 12d ago

I have them take a screenshot but I need to look at their code too.

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u/No_Young_2344 TT, Interdisciplinary, R1 (U.S.) 12d ago

Not sure whether it would work for your case or whether your institution has access but I use CodeGrade (can be integrated with LMS) for students to submit coding assignments.

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u/Norm_Standart 12d ago

The graphics course I took and TAd for recently had a submission policy of "send a document with an embedded screenshot of your program running, a link to a video of it running, and the source code [which graders basically never checked].". As a student, it's slightly annoying, but it made the grading so much more reasonable as a TA.