AutoSAD

This tool eases the process of checking academic dishonesty in a Canvas course, by pulling students' page views activity during the period of a test is being taken, for all Unit Tests and all students in said course.

Requirements

• Ruby 2.5.0
• canvas-api gem from @whitmer (using modified canvas-api.rb file)
• axlsx gem (using modified sheet_pr.rb file)
• json gem
• date gem
• Admin access in Canvas
• Bearer token

Preconditions

• No unpublished unit tests in the quizzes section
• File system for course should follow the following structure:
  • Course 50xx
    • Course Resources
      • Slides
        • files
      • Reading Assignment
        • files
      • SAFMEDS (optional)
        • files
      • Study Guide
        • files
    • ...
    • Instructor Materials
      • Instructor A
        • files
      • Instructor B
        • files
      • ...
      • Instructor Z
        • files

Usage

• RubyMine:

  • Go to Run -> Edit Configurations
  • Add [course_id] [check_start_time] [check_end_time]
  • Run

• Command Line:

   chmod 755 program.rb    
   ./program.rb [course_id] [check_start_time] [check_end_time]
  

Features

• Creates a workbook of student activity within a course
  • Creates a worksheet for each student in course
    • Displays page views activity (URL accessed, time accessed, test taken, IP used, Browser used, test start time, submission time) for all tests taken in check period
• Highlights files accessed during test period in yellow
• Highlights worksheet if any suspicious activity is present
  • Activity while taking unit test, review files or prior test