Archive for the ‘ New Features ’ Category
I added percentages for grades in the student view, as well as the student’s overall grade in the course so far. I modified the grades controller to get the overall grade, and I modified the view to display the percentages. This further addresses issue 11. [ READ MORE ]
I added the class average for each assignment to the grades view for teachers and TAs. I wrote a new query to replace the way assignments were being retrieved so that the averages could be obtained along with the rest of the assignment information. This is to partially address issue 11. [ READ MORE ]
Based on a suggestion by Ryan Govostes, I have implemented salted passwords. If the database is compromised by some sort of attack — SQL injection, or otherwise — the attacker will be unable to use a pre-made collision table. Now, there is an application salt in addition to a per-user salt. The idea behind the application-wide [ READ MORE ]