A web-based computer-program grading system

Abstract

It is a great idea to use automatic grading system in programming courses, compared with manual grading by instructors. An online grading system is a web application developed for accepting student submissions of program source code and automatically grade these submissions based on certain criteria. With the maturity of the Internet, an online grading system would be easy to implement and use for programming course instructors.The objective of this project is to develop an online automatic grading system. In the grading system, it should be easy for course instructors to set questions for students, and it should be convenient for students to submit their answer programs. Besides automatic grading, the grading system must have the capability of plagiarism detection among the source code submitted.