Overview
In general pdf generation is performed by backend services in an asynchronous flow with schedulers and assisting components by GCP (PubSub, Cloud tasks, Cloud functions, Cloud storage)
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PDF scheduling Flow
- Event trigger which starts the pipeline
- DB request to gather all resources for pdf data
- fill pdf template and schedule the pdf process depending on assessment grading type (manual or auto)
- Store pdf file in google cloud storage
- Link pdf file in the db
Report Types
Final Grade reports
They are scheduled for creation upon publishing final grade for a course.
These reports are handled by SYLVA API, more specifically using the pdfMaker cloud function
The final grade pdf reports are generated by 2 templates:
- student report
- staff report
Evaluation reports
They are scheduled for creation upon publishing an assessment evaluation.
They can be divided in 2 sub-types based on grading functionality (manual or auto) :
- Manual graded: These are handled by the SYLVA API
- Auto-graded: These are handled by the WEPC API
In addition, all evaluation reports are generated by 4 templates:
- Staff report for team assessments
- Staff report for individual assessments
- Team report for team assessments
- Student report for individual assessments
Filename templates for PDF files
The filename of each pdf should be downloaded as follows:
Evaluation Results
- {User Name}-{Assessment Name}-Results.pdf
- {Team Name}-{Assessment Name}-Results.pdf
- {Course short name}-{Assessment Name}-Evaluation-report.pdf <-- for Staff
Final Grade results
- {User Name}-{Course short name}-Final-grade.pdf
- {Course name}-Final-grade-report.pdf <-- for Staff
Evaluation Archive ZIP
This is a zip file generated after the evaluation results have been published.
It contains the evaluation reports for all the students as well as the staff report.
Final Grade Archive ZIP
This is a zip file generated after the final grade has been published.
It contains all final grade reports for all the students as well as the staff report.