Late submission plugin

Assigning a penalty to notebooks that were submitted late can be done using the method described below. The default behavior is not to assign any penalty. nbgrader will still compute how late each submission is.

For this to work, you must include a duedate for the assignment and then a timestamp.txt file in the folder for each submission with a single line containing a timestamp (e.g. 2015-02-02 14:58:23.948203 America/Los_Angeles). Then, when you run nbgrader autograde, nbgrader will record these timestamps into the database, compute how late each submission is and assign a late penalty (if specified). Also see the faq.

Predefined methods

To assign an overall notebook score of zero for any late submission you can include the following in the {course_directory}/nbgrader_config.py file:

c.LateSubmissionPlugin.penalty_method = 'zero'

Creating a plugin:

To add your own custom management of late submissions you can create a plugin class. For example the {course_directory}/late.py module that assigns a penalty of 1 point per hour late::

from __future__ import division
from nbgrader.plugins import BasePlugin


class SubMarks(BasePlugin):
    def late_submission_penalty(self, student_id, score, total_seconds_late):
        """Penalty of 1 mark per hour late"""
        hours_late = total_seconds_late / 3600
        return round(hours_late, 0)

The class must inherit from BasePlugin and the late_submission_penalty function API is described below. The module and class names are arbitrary, but need to be added to the {course_directory}/nbgrader_config.py file, for example::

c.AssignLatePenalties.plugin_class = 'late.SubMarks'

Note: the late.py module can be either located in the same directory as where you are running the nbgrader commands (which is most likely the root of your course directory), or you can place it in one of a number of locations on your system. These locations correspond to the configuration directories that Jupyter itself looks in; you can find out what these are by running jupyter --paths.

API

class nbgrader.plugins.latesubmission.LateSubmissionPlugin(**kwargs)[source]

Predefined methods for assigning penalties for late submission

late_submission_penalty(student_id, score, total_seconds_late)[source]

Return the late submission penalty based on the predefined method.

Parameters:
  • student_id (str) – The unique id of the student

  • score (float) – The score the student obtained for the submitted notebook

  • total_seconds_late (float) – The total number of seconds the submitted notebook was late

Returns:

penalty – The assigned penalty score (None for no assigned penalty)

Return type:

float OR None