Supporting Tutorial Assignments AB#125 AB#126

[pointOfive]

Would it be possible to formally connect TAs to their assigned tutorial students.
In the STA130 use case, TAs mark their tutorial students.
For (a) exposing TAs to their students coding and performance, and (b) efficiency in entering grades in Quercus from of assignments in many forms (MarkUs just being one of them), it is therefore helpful if TAs can be linked to their assigned tutorial section students.

This has been determined to be sufficiently desirable compared to randomly assigning TAs for marking in MarkUs that currently the 24 TAs are specifically assigned to their tutorial students by

1. subsetting students to tutorials (which fortunately has been made available in the current version of MarkUs)
2. identifying the TA assigned to that tutorial through an external document
3. and then making the assignment.

While not an overly arduous process, it would be nice if this could be automatically achieved as an alternative choice compared to the "random" option.

ps -- the "random" option also currently dumps the modulus remainder students onto a single TA; so, e.g., all TAs will have 17 students to mark and the last will have 31 under the current random implementation. We avoid this by the process above, which is also important to balance TA workload, so while not the major driver in our preference for TA-tutorial section assignments, it is a non-negligible consideration.

[david-yz-liu]

Thanks @pointOfive, we've had a similar request from instructors before, and this does make sense (especially for very large classes where doing things manually is tedious).

P.S. The issue of the random assignment you reported is definitely a bug, which we'll look into independently of the tutorial assigning.