IAAMultipleChoice

Prerequirements

• Make sure that you have java8, ruby, rubygems and tomcat8 installed!
• Install CSS-Preprocessor (SASS)

gem install sass

• Update IntelliJ's H2-Driver! There is a bug in it..

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/h-database/5LZlZ_jC4QI

• First, download latest drivers, for example from here:

http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/com/h2database/h2/1.4.193/h2-1.4.193.jar

• Then, in IntelliJ, open your Database view and click on Data Source Properties
• Under Drivers, select H2
• Remove the old jar-File and add the downloaded one

Installation

• Fulfill Prerequirements

IntelliJ Basic Config

• Enable Annotation Processing
• Search and install the Lombok Plugin for IntelliJ
• Restart IntelliJ

Setup Project

• In IntelliJ, select New -> Project from Version Control -> Github
• Enter Github Credentials, paste Repository URL:

https://github.com/ferencbeutel/IAAMultipleChoice.git

• Click through the Project Setup
• Right-Click pom.xml, select Maven -> Reimport
• Navigate to File -> Project Structure
• under Facets, add a web facet
• If not already there add a Web Application: explored Artifact under Artifacts
• Add Libraries into the Artifact

Configure Project

• Copy src/main/resources/spring.properties_template to src/main/resources/spring.properties
• Replace all placeholders in spring.properties with the correct ones for your setup
• example config, change datasource url at least:
  • datasource.url=/Users/ferencbeutel/IdeaProjects/IAAMultipleChoice/MultipleChoiceDB
  • smtp.host=smtp.gmail.com
  • smtp.port=587
  • smtp.startTls=true
  • smtp.auth=true
  • smtp.user=[email protected]
  • smtp.password=maxnacken

Sass Compilation

• run the following code on the command line in the root project

sass --update web/static/:web/static/

Tomcat Setup

• Navigate to Run -> Edit Configurations
• Add a new tomcat local server configuration
• Under Application Server, select your installed Tomcat Root Folder
• Uncheck the After Launch Option
• under VM Options, include this if you have an IPv6-Address:

-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

• Under the deployment tab, select your Web: exploded facet

Basic usage

data generation

• your first action after starting the application should be the generation of test data
• navigate to localhost:8080/application-administration
• fill in the form and submit the form

Registration

• select register in the navigation menu
• fill in the form and follow the instructions in the mail sent to you

Login

• you can login as a lecturer either with any of the Lecturers found in the User Database Table or with [email protected] and PW genExamplePW
• you can login as a student with your registered mail, with any of the Students found in the User Database Table or with [email protected] and PW genExamplePW

Lecturer Actions

Seminars

• you can add Seminars under the add Seminar navigation entry
• you can edit Seminars by clicking on the Seminar on your home page

Tests

• once you have created some Seminars, you can create tests for them by clicking on the appropriate button on the home page
• you can edit them with in the same location after creation
• once you have created a test, you can start adding questions and answers to it at the edit test page

Student Actions

Seminars

• you can view all seminars under the seminar list navigation entry
• to enroll in one, click on it and then hit the enroll button

Tests

• Once you have enrolled for a Seminar you will get an email at 01:00AM of the start day of the test
  • this is fully configurable in the SeminarScheduler by a cron expression
• When you got the mail, you can start the test on your home page by clicking on the appropriate button
• After that, enter your access token and follow the instructions on the screen
• Once you have finished a test, check your result on the home page

Admin Actions

• under localhost:8080/application-administration, you can generate initial application data
• furthermore, you can send the test access token to everyone who is enrolled to a seminar which test starts today