Partial Points¶

You can award partial points for student assessments in your testing scripts. Use the following Bash and Python grading scripts to enable partial points. You must toggle Allow Partial Points on in the Grading section of the Advanced Code Test dialog.

Example Bash grading script for partial points¶

If your test was written using a bash script, report partial points similar to the following:

POINTS=5
curl -s "$CODIO_PARTIAL_POINTS_URL&points=${POINTS}" > /dev/null

Example Python grading script for partial points¶

If your test was written using a Python script, report partial points similar to the following:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import random
import sys
# import grade submit function
sys.path.append('/usr/share/codio/assessments')
from lib.grade import send_partial
def main():
  # Execute the test on the student's code
  grade = random.randint(10, 50)

  # Send the grade back to Codio with the penalty factor applied
  res = send_partial(int(round(grade)))
  exit( 0 if res else 1)

main()

The score you award should be any value between 0 and the maximum score you specified when defining the assessment in the Codio authoring editor.

Autograding enhancements for partial points¶

To provide you with more robust auto-grade scripts, you can send back feedback in different formats HTML, Markdown, or plaintext) and a URL is passed as an environment variable `CODIO_PARTIAL_POINTS_V2_URL`. These variables allow POST and GET requests with the following parameters:

Score (`CODIO_PARTIAL_POINTS_V2_URL`) - 0-100 percent for assessment, should be a percentage of total points possible.
Feedback - text - this is limited to 1 Mb
Format - html, md, or txt (default)

You can also use the function send_partial_v2, see example below.

Example Python auto-grading script with partial points¶

import os, requests, random, re, io, subprocess, shutil, sys
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT

sys.path.append('/usr/share/codio/assessments')
from lib.grade import send_partial_v2, FORMAT_V2_MD, FORMAT_V2_HTML, FORMAT_V2_TXT

score = 0
feedback = ""

# get student code

with open('code/quizquestion2.c') as response:
  answer = response.read()

#check student code

if re.search('pi.*=.*3.14',answer) and re.search('r.*=.*8',answer):
  feedback+="Correct variable initialization.\n"
  score+=5
else:
  feedback+="Incorrect variable initialization.\n"

if re.search('float.*pi',answer) and re.search('float.*r',answer):
  feedback+="Correct variable declaration.\n"
  score+=5
else:
  feedback+="Incorrect variable declaration.\n"

feedback+= "<h2>On this question you earned " + str(score) + " out of 10</h2>"
# scale up score to be out of 100
percent = (score/10)*100
res = send_partial_v2(percent, feedback, FORMAT_V2_HTML)
exit(0 if res else 1)