This is currently specific to RiceX's Preparing for the AP Calculus AB Exam Part 1. I am planning on abstracting it to part 2 in the near future and maybe to all courses in general.. You could try to use it for other courses, but I don't know what will and wont work (once I add this feature, the program will only be able to find question pages on the Calc course, but it will be easy to remove that bit, you will just have to directly navigate to every page with questions).
This is a software that I created to make taking archived courses on edX easier. Some archived courses have submit buttons for questions disabled, so you cannot track your progress. You can inject the frontend.js here into DevTools (or use a chrome extension to make this automatic), create a Google Script with the backend.gs code in it, and create a spreadsheet which is organized as shown below, you can track your progress on that spreadsheet. If you want a percent completion stat, just visit every question page and the questions will populate as not yet tried on the spreadsheet.
The first row is left empty. You can put titles there if you want. The first column should be filled with the first word (space seperated object) of each lesson. You can have more than that first word but the first word of the sheet and on edX must match. Here are some formulas you can use for progress tracking on Google Sheets:
edX Progress:
=(COUNTIF(B1:Z31, "<>") - COUNTIF(B1:Z31, "0*"))/COUNTIF(B1:Z31, "<>")
edX Progress is the number of correct questions divided by all questions (if you get 1 point on a 2 point question it is factored as half a correct question in order to make my life easier).
Total Progress:
=SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(LEFT(RIGHT(B2:Z31, LEN(B2:Z31) - (FIND(", ", B2:Z31) + 1))) = "0", 0, 1), "N")))/COUNT(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(LEFT(RIGHT(B2:Z31, LEN(B2:Z31) - (FIND(", ", B2:Z31) + 1))) = "0", 0, 1), "N")))
Total Progress is number of attempted questions divided by all questions.
Current Grade:
=SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(LEFT(RIGHT(B2:Z31, LEN(B2:Z31) - (FIND(", ", B2:Z31) + 1))) = "0", "N", DIVIDE(LEFT(B2:Z31, FIND("/", B2:Z31) - 1), RIGHT(LEFT(B2:Z31, FIND(",", B2:Z31) - 2), FIND("/", B2:Z31) - 1))), "N")))/COUNT(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(LEFT(RIGHT(B2:Z31, LEN(B2:Z31) - (FIND(", ", B2:Z31) + 1))) = "0", "N", DIVIDE(LEFT(B2:Z31, FIND("/", B2:Z31) - 1), RIGHT(LEFT(B2:Z31, FIND(",", B2:Z31) - 2), FIND("/", B2:Z31) - 1))), "N")))
Current Grade is percent correct on attempted questions (multi point questions are counted like edX Progress).
This was made for my personal use, so it is far from production grade. Here are some bugs:
- MID: The UI is very bad. Boxes from edX pop up asking you to refresh and it doesn't update visible metrics like if you got it right.
- LOW: The submit button sometimes gets disabled until you click on the problem (needs my onlick to get re-enabled)
- And if you get it right and click, sometimes submit gets re-enabled.
- LOW: For Calc AB 1.1, if I answer problem 6 wrong just once, it greys out until I refresh.
- Make this compatible with Calc AB Part 2 (and then any course).
- Fill in a/b points and c/d tries in the edX UI.
- Make it so you don't have to premake a spreadsheet, there will be a script to make one.
- Turn this into a fully fledged Chrome Extension.
This is licensed under the MIT license, so you may use it how you like, as long as you provide attribution.
If anyone else ever sees this and want to use it, great! Just keep in mind that this trusts the frontend for information about the correct answer, the number of alloted tries, and more. So, this shouldn't be used in situations where the users may try to fiddle with the information. Altough, even if you were to lock this down, it is still easy to get answers to edX problems without submitting or clicking "View Answer," so it doesn't really matter in this case.