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The current submission website has been used for 6 terms (4 times in 6.006, 1 time in 6.857, 1 time in 6.470), and Victor responded to support requests from the teaching assistants and students. Based on this experience, we have distilled the following core tasks.

1. Account Creation##
   1. Goal: Create and configure an account to get access to the user-specific features of the website## Precondition: have email address, the course number of the class to join, (optionally MIT email / MIT ID number)
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   2. Subtasks:
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   1. 1. Fill basic information form, including email address, password, (optionally MIT email / MIT ID number)
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   1. 2. Validate the account by clicking on a link in an email
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   1. 2. Register for the class or be marked as an instructor by an administrator
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   1. 2. Optionally provide details for the public profile (nickname...)
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   2. Frequency of use: first time of use
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   2. Exceptions: enter wrong email address, wrong class number, wrong name
2. Submitting homework, answering surveys (how many hours, etc.), and checking your grades##
   1. Goal: Have your problem set be evaluated by the TAs
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   2. Precondition:
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   1. 1. The user must have an account
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   1. 2. Homework should have been assigned by an instructor
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   2. Subtasks:
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   1. 1. Upload your problem set as a PDF file
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   1. 2. Optionally answer a survey
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   1. 2. Check your problem set and quiz grades
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   2. Frequency of use: weekly
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   2. Exceptions: submit the homework not on time, wrong format of documents, forgot to attach documents before submitting. 
3. Creating/Editing problem sets##
   1. Goal: Defining the files that students must upload for a problem set, and the grading structure.
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   2. Precondition:
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   1. 1. The user must have registered as a TA
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   1. 2. A designed problem set.
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   2. Subtasks:
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   1. 1. Creating a new problem set or editing an old one
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   1. 2. Defining files to be submitted for the problem set
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   1. 2. Defining what gets graded and the grading scale
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   1. 2. Marking the problem set available for submission and set a deadline
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   1. 2. Optionally: decide late policy, enable extension
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   2. Frequency of use: weekly
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   2. Exceptions: creating a wrong pset
4. Grading problem sets##
   1. Goal: Having a grade for each of the students’ submissions
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   2. Precondition:
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   1. 1. The instructor needs to have a problem set prepared
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   1. 2. Students must have submitted solutions
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   2. Subtasks
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   1. 1. 1. Printing out student solutions for grading
      ### Grading###
      1. 2. Grading/update grading
         3. Inputting the problem set grades for distribution to the students
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      2. Frequency of use: weekly
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      2. Exceptions: entering a wrong grade, missing grades

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