Submission history indication / visualization on a student course page

[rien]

There is currently no quick way to have an indication of the submission history over the whole course for a single student. Showing the amount of attempts and how close the last submission was before the deadline, can give a teacher insight in how much "in a hurry" a student was to complete that exercise.

One possible quick way to show this, would be to link to the last submission with the number instead, and also reveal the interval between the deadline and the submission.

Example mock-up:

This mock-up does have some problems though (What if student submitted after the deadline? Do we show this to students as well? ...), but I think the general idea is clear.

In addition, a visualization of the submission history (with for example a timeline #925) could give a broader overview. Especially if it also visualizes how much a submission has changed from the previous one.. But designing this will be a lot more effort.

Use case: I am currently doing oral examinations with students where I discuss some of their submissions to evaluate their understanding of the exercise and their own solution. For each student, I try to pick submissions that have the highest chance of having received help (either by plagiarizing or using GenAI). A high number of attempts and submitting very close to the deadline indicate such an elevated risk. However, I currently have no other way to do this than to open up the submission history for each exercise per student.

[pdawyndt]

I scripted this visualisation based on the submisison history of a student for all submissions in one series (dot colors reflect submission status; blurred part shows exercise names).

Since we already have a "learning analytics" menu for teachers to switch between different views for a series, this might be an inspiration for a new view. The view could have a drop-down to select a student, and reuse the component from other views to select the start/end of the period. Deadline could be indicated by a vertical line if within the selected timespan.

A similar view could also be used to show the submissions for multiple students for the same exercise (or multiple exercises combined using different colored dots for each exercise).