Scoring MATLAB Grader on LMS

I've managed to run a Grader assignment on an LMS with limited attempts. I want to award students the best mark from their 3 attempts but it appears that they have been given the score from their final submission. I was able to control this behaviour when running a course hosted on the Mathworks website. How can I control this from an LMS?

Answer 1

[Sheila Scialanga]

We usually do not recommend to limit solution attempts because does not reflect the workflow of a take-home project or debugging in industry. What kind of problem are trying to solve by limiting submissions? Students can always access their previous submissions and make sure that their most recent attempt reflects their best work.

The hosted version of MATLAB Grader allows you to export a history of all solutions or the best solution. However, the gradebook/completion status always showed only the latest attempt as in the MATLAB Grader integrated in Moodle. We do not currently have an export of all solutions in the LMS version. In a limited submission problem, the only workaround we can propose is to ask that those students where the most recent attempt is not their best work, to share their solution ID for a better solution. You can then query the solution report based on this ID, visually inspect the solution proposed and overwrite the grade in the gradebook.

[Jinge Wang]

I ran into the same issue. The university's LMS system only allows 2 attempts, which makes the issue worse.

It would be nice if future update can allow the Grader to record only the highest score among all attempts.

[Cris LaPierre]

It is best to give product suggestions directly to the MathWorks. You can do that here.

About the limit on number of submissions, see this answer. If students are only given 2 attempts, it is because someone at your university configured it that way. That can be changed. If you need help, please have your LMS administrator reach out to your institution's MathWorks representative. If they don't know who that is, have them contact support.