Week 9

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Summary

3/9 - 3/15

Meetings

• 3/10 3:30-5:00PM Tuesday, 1-on-1-on-1 with Prof. Adams and Grace Lingley
• 3/13 1:30-2:30PM Friday, Instructional Team Meeting

SES Production Access

I’ve re-opened the service request to get production SES access, allowing us to send emails from our domain cs351.cloud.

Obsidian Plugin

I’ve created an obsidian plugin for writing Cloud Assignments. I’ll dogfood it when writing Cloud Assignment 3.

Student Access to instructional site over spring break

A student, ██████████████, requested some way to practice Cloud Assignment 2 over Spring Break.

Steps to enroll student:

• add email in AWS SES “Create Identity”
• student then has to click the link in the notification email to consent to receive mail originating from the instructional AWS account.
• student can then login with magic-link login.
• Then put the cloud assignment into draft mode, and then add the student as a “draft tester”.

Improvement: A cloud assignment can be in one of several modes:

• Active: during the release and due date.
• Practice: active for students in the class, but not for a grade.
• Draft: inactive except for a list of whitelisted students or staff.
• Inactive: outside its release and due date.

Then, I enable “Practice” mode on a cloud assignment for the whole class. I would also record in what mode a submission was performed in, so grading is accurate.