Grading Workflow

The workflow for grading with Otter is very standard irrespective of the medium by which instructors will collect students’ submissions. In general, it is a four-step process:

1. Generate a configuration zip file

2. Collect submissions via LMS (Canvas, Gradescope, etc.)

3. Run the autograder on each submission

4. Grade written questions via LMS

Steps 1 and 3 above are covered in this section of the documentation. All Otter autograders require a configuration zip file, the creation of which is described in the next section, and this zip file is used to create a grading environment. There are various options for where and how to grade submissions, both containerized and non-containerized, described in Executing Submissions.