emacsmirror / abgaben

Review and correct assignments received by mail

abgaben.el (German for what students return when given assignments) is a set of functions for dealing with assignments. It assumes that you use mu4e for your mails.

The basic worklfow is as follows: You receive mails with assignments from your students You use an attachment action where you

• select the group this assignment belongs to e.g. you have several different courses or (as I usually have) two groups for your practical
• select the current week

It then saves that attachment to ABGABEN-ROOT-FOLDER/[group]/[week]/ and creates the directories as needed. After that, it produces a new heading in your ABGABEN-ORG-File under ABGABEN-HEADING / [group] / [week] containing a link to the saved attachment and the email. (Note: The ABGABEN-HEADING / [group] heading needs to exist already, the week heading will be created if it does not exist)

You can then open the PDFs from your org file and annotate them. After your annotations, you can use abgaben-export-pdf-annot-to-org to export your annotations as subheadings of the current assignment. This export will capture all points you have given by matching your annotation lines to abgaben-points-re and summing the points achieved and achievable points.

You can then invoke abgaben-prepare-reply to open the original mail. You will have a reply in your kill-ring prepared with your annotations exported as text and the annotated pdf as attachment.

Press reply, yank, send, your are done!

There is also a slightly longer explanation at my blog.