Can I see somewhere all the representer comments created by other mentors?
In the automation tab, there’s a “feedback submitted” filter, and it shows “0” for me, but I don’t know if that means that I didn’t create any representer comments, or that nobody in the track created any.
No you can’t. But it’s relatively easy for us to add and I think it’s both important and high priority, so I’ll ask Erik and Aron to look at it this month.
Related to this, I got this automated feeback (from a mentor, but via the representer) for little-sisters-essay in python.
Consider what would happen if you run
print(replace_word_choice("The cat ate a mouse.", "a", "the")). This would print"The cthet thete the mouse.". Is that what it ought to print? What other unexpected behaviors can be triggered with the right inputs?
While this is kind of a good point, fixing it is quite a lot of extra work, and is not a requirement of the tests or the instructions, so I think it probably isn’t good feedback to show.
I think there is no way for the student to flag feedback to the track maintainers.
Also, I think that track maintainers don’t really have visibility of, or control over the feedback, which would be useful to curate an ideal learning experience.
I actually appreciated this feedback. I initially solved the exercise quickly, and didn’t think to replace entire words, rather simple string occurrences. So when I received the feedback, I spent some additional time to update my solution.
While this is kind of a good point…
I think having these kinds of points as part of mentor feedback is probably the best approach. The other alternatives would be to 1. not say anything; or 2. update the exercise and the tests to be more strict.
I think having additional challenges to think about, while not strictly covered by tests is a great way to let students, who are so inclined, to explore the exercise, while not complicating the exercise for the rest.
But in general, I also agree that there should be a way to report feedback that is not helpful.