Domain Info

This page goes over specific domain knowledge and key terminology for grading like migrations, late passes, and other concepts.

External Sources

An External Source is a outside application such as Canvas, Gradescope, PrairieLearn, or Runestone which connects to Packtrain to allow for either uploading data to Packtrain being like Gradescope or Runestone and also for uploading to external site being Canvas.

Grade Conversion

A Grade Conversion is where the set amount of points within External Sources like Gradescope, Runestone, or PrairieLearn gets converted into its complementary amount in Canvas based on its max points, this is performed using the course policies that the admin sets.

Migration

A Migration is when a assignment’s grades gets moved from its version in the uploading External Sources to its version in Canvas.

Master Migration

A Master Migration is a collection of migrations that a Instructor chooses to start, which will migrate all migrations from an external source to Canvas.

Late Requests

A Late Request describes a generic request to extend late work, which could be either a late pass or extension.

Late Passes

A Late Pass is a pass students get that allows them to be able to submit the assignment when it is late and still be able to receive some points for it.

Extensions

An Extension is when someone gets more time to complete an assignment with it still being marked as on time.