CS 547 attendance checker

Students can check their attendance at http://cs547check.herokuapp.com/

Alias for the above: http://hci.st/cs547check

Source code: https://github.com/gkovacs/cs547attendance

At the start of the term

Visit https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/cs547check/settings to manage. geza and msb have access and can add you as a collaborator.

Set the config variable spreadsheet_id to the spreadsheet id (it is just numbers and letters). Make sure the spreadsheet is shared with google_service_account.client_email. Do not change the config variable google_service_account

At the end of the term

To see who passed and didn’t, visit http://cs547check.herokuapp.com/pass_nopass

To see just the list of non-passing students, visit http://cs547check.herokuapp.com/nopass

To get the enrolled students who aren’t passing, download the enrolled students table on axess on the class roster sheet, it is a blue icon with a red arrow on the top-right corner of the table to the right of the “Find” button (it should be called ps.xls)

And then git clone the cs547attendance repo and move ps.xls into the directory and run scripts/get_nonpassing_students

git clone https://github.com/gkovacs/cs547attendance
cd cs547attendance
npm install -g yarn
yarn
cp ~/Downloads/ps.xls ./
./scripts/get_nonpassing_students

If you make modifications to scripts/get_nonpassing_students.ls then run lscbin to compile it:

yarn global add lscbin
lscbin

If you make modifications to app.ls then run lsc to compile it:

yarn global add livescript
lsc -c app.ls

If you need to develop the app locally, make sure to copy the config vars to a local ".env" file. This should be in .gitignore -- careful not push it to Heroku!

To run locally:

heroku local web

and go to localhost:5000 in your browser. To bypass the authentication stuff when developing, comment out all the authentication code in app.js.

To deploy the app, commit your changes and follow directions here. Then:

git push heroku