eAssignment

eAssignment is a system which eases the exchange of exercises between students and tutors within the scope of ICS1. Via eAssignment, students can access exercises and submit their solutions to their tutor. Furthermore, students may be granted access to sample solutions.

In the scope of ICS1, all homework exercises must be submitted via eAssignment.

In the computer labs eAssignment is already installed. We recommend to use the Sun machines on the left hand side of C005, since there might be performance problems on the other machines. In order to use eAssignment in the lab, you need to do some configuration work, as described here. If you plan to use eAssignment on your own machine, you can find pre-configured installation packages further down on this page.

Documentation

Files	Content
Students [html, pdf]	Manual installation without installation package; general configuration; working with eAssignment
Notes for ICS1  [html, pdf]	Setting up eAssignment for ICS1
FAQ [html]	Frequently asked questions about eAssignment. Look here first when you have trouble.

If you encounter a problem that the documentation or the FAQ does not cover, you may send an email to inf1-ea-support at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de. State your problem as precisely as possible, i.e., tell us about the environment that you use (operating system, Java version, eclipse version, etc.) and which steps led to the problem.

Installation Packages

In order to use the following installation packages, you need the Java 1.5 Runtime Environment (aka JRE 5.0). If you don't have it, follow the link "Download JRE 5.0 Update 5" on this page. After installation, make sure that Java 1.5 really works, e.g. by typing "java -version" on the command line. This should prompt a message such as "java version "1.5.0_04 ..."

Except for Java 1.5, the installation packages should contain all that you need to use eAssignment (eclipse 3.1.1, WebDav&FTP Plugin, EMF Plugin, and the eAssignment plugin für students.) The installed files will fill around 120 MB of hard disk space.

Choose your operating system, download the respective file and unzip it. Then, you start eclipse (the program that contains eAssignment) by executing the file named eclipse (or eclipse.exe) in the directory called "eclipse". When running eclipse for the first time, you are asked to create a workspace where all your data will be stored. After selecting a folder, you'll see a welcome screen. Click on the arrow to the upper right to skip it. Now you still have to do some configuration work, as described here.