Client side (Javascript) addition of rubric criteria?

[mje]

Today, adding criteria in rubrics is a cumbersome process requiring a huge amount of mouse-clicks. This wouldn't be a bad thing if rubrics had some built in flexibility but they don't. By example when I add a math assignment with 5 subtasks and I want to re-use 3 criteria for each of the subtasks ... phew ... I just don't do it right now.

Would it be possible to use Greasemonkey​ for Firefox or Tampermonkey​ for Chrome or Safari and create a Javascript that can enable teachers to add rubric criteria from a CSV file (or similar)?

 @James ​​shared a javascript enabling easy (manual) re-ordering of criteria, see Sorting Rubrics Made Easy ​

My suggestion is to start out simple and allow for some hardcoded filenames, and I therefore suggested below pseudo-code (based on the work by James Jones):

waitForKeyElements('.rubric_container.rubric.editing', attachImportRubrics);

function attachImportRubrics() {

// rough idea, non-working code below:

pseudo code: prompt user to open certain csv file (or just use a hardcoded pre-defined filename)

  // I could certainly live with some rough / hardcoded functionality here, it is a lot better than manually modifying rubrics.

pseudo code: open file, make sure it is readable.

var tableRef = $('.rubric_table tbody')

// loop#1 : loop around below code to insert rubric, row-by-row.

pseudo code: read one line from CSV file with rubric criteria (row-by-row)

var newRow = tableRef.insertRow(.tableRef.rows.length);

// loop#2 : loop around below for each criteria column

var newCell = newRow.insertCell(0);

pseudo code: extract (next unread) field in imported CSV line.

var newText = document.createTextNode('some text');  // insert field here instead of this.

  newCell.appendChild(newText)

// end loop #2.

// end loop #1.

}

Do you think this can be done?

James Jones already commented on this - see end of this thread: Sorting Rubrics Made Easy​ - where it was also suggested that the discussion was moved here.

Kind regards,

Michael

[mje]

To quote Mr James Jones: "I have concerns over whether you would be able to just create new text fields and put in there, but that you'd have to invoke the button to add a new row before pasting information in there. What you would need to do snoop around in the inspector and see what extra classes and ids get added to the entries -- if any."

Anyone who can comment on above concern?

It seems the rowsorter actually works on the complete table and return the sorted result, so maybe it's possible to return a new table with extra rows? If not we would need to loop on the "add criteria" button to add rows.

Maybe the same concern applies to columns in a criteria row.

What tools would you suggest for investigating this?

Kind regards,

Michael