Facilitated by Matt Coles, Skylight
Abstract: Plom (
https://plomgrading.org) is free and open source software developed by UBC Science faculty, staff, and students. It is a system for instructors/TAs to grade handwritten homework, tests, and exams from in-person sittings and student-uploaded assessments. Multiple versions of questions are randomly assigned and then marked simultaneously by a team of graders.
Plom has been used to mark more than 20,000 assessments ranging from homework to large exams in 25 courses. Because the instructor has access to all the annotation data in a machine-accessible format, we hope that Plom will become a valuable tool for pedagogical research and inquiry.
At the session, we will demo Plom from the grader’s perspective. We’ll discuss our development process and how we train graduate and undergraduate student developers, and we’ll comment on our recent work toward Canvas integration.