The Problem

The upgrade from our university’s websub system to gradescope looks and feels great for sure, but the approach of having to upload your files each time or maintaining a separate GitHub repo for each assignment is a pain. The whole process gets even worse when you have to deal with folders within your assignment.

TL;DR

Solution!

We have developed a tiny python script that will upload all the files in the folder it’s placed in as a submission to gradescope.

Demo

P.S After 0:21, please extend to the end, gradescope just takes too long to finish grading and I was too lazy to trim the video.

Setting up the submission script

• Step 1: Download the submit.py file from this Github repository.
• Step 2: Copy the submit.py file to your assignment directory.
• Step 3: Install requests_toolbelt,

pip3 install requests_toolbelt

• Step 4: Open the file and edit the following as per the setup video embedded below:

assignment_url = ""
authenticity_token = ""
cookie = ""

After this process, you can simply run the following command to make a submission to gradescope. No zip files, No folders, No confusion!

python3 submit.py

Note: You will need to repeat steps 2&4 for every individual assignment/practical.

Feel free to use the discussion forum below for any queries!