Gradescope: Keeping an Eye on Your Students

There is no need to search all of your students individually in Gradescope to keep an eye on them.

Go to a Gradescope auto-graded assignment. Open the javascript console of your browser. In Google Chrome, I right click on the webpage, click Inspect, and then go to the Console tab:

Javascript console in your browser

In Firefox has an almost equal interface, so the same thing works: rich click, go to Inspect Element, then go to the Console tab. When you do that you will hopefully feel this energy:

(Made by Stephanie Davidson)

In the console, type this and press Enter:

$('.dataTable tr').filter(function(i) {
    return $(this).text().match(/Emily He|Kurilla|Zelin|Buddy|Blank|Jasper|Sreya|Asnis|Brinkmann|Liam Hall|Taryn|Akwei|Jing|Pesantez|Osvaldo Cervantes|Dash Chin|Aoki/gi) == null;
}).hide()

That will only show you my students. To see your students, change the names between slashes /.../. You can separate them using vertical bars | as I did. Make sure that you are filtering your students correctly. For example, Gabrielle Pesantez appears as “Gaby Pesantez”, so if you just filter by “Gabrielle Pesantez”, you will miss her. If you add quotes, as in Taryn O’Connor, your code will fail. I just filter for “Taryn” (she is the only Taryn in the course), but “Taryn O.Connor” (i.e., changing the quote to a dot) also works.

If you want to show all students, you can run $('.dataTable tr').show() in the console, or just refresh the webpage.

Once you have your line of javascript that filters your students, you can automate this process by creating a bookmark that runs that line of code. To do it, put your code between the braces in javascript:$(function(){ }), after removing any line breaks. In my case, the code becomes:

javascript:$(function(){$('.dataTable tr').filter(function(i) { return $(this).text().match(/Emily He|Kurilla|Zelin|Buddy|Blank|Jasper|Sreya|Asnis|Brinkmann|Liam Hall|Taryn|Akwei|Jing|Pesantez|Osvaldo Cervantes|Dash Chin|Aoki/gi) == null;
}).hide()})

Then create a bookmark that runs that:

Then, when you are looking at the submissions for an assignment, you open your bookmarks and click on this. It will run the code and only display the students you want to see.