Group assignment team names with a common pattern

[drbeco]

Hi guys, this is a feature request.

I always tell my students to follow some standard names so I can keep track of what is what.

But that is always prone to error (take off the human factor whenever you can)

So it would be nice if the name was automatically generated.

I have a few ideas:

• The simplest: just a number. It would be like: assignment-title-XXX. The order would be the creation order. Very easy to implement. For example: galaxy-001, galaxy-002, and so on...
• More freedom: the teacher sets some substring to be used. The repository would be: assignment-title-substring-XXX. For example, consider the substring ex3-grp: invaders-ex3-grp-001, invaders-ex3-grp-002, and so on...
• Yet more freedom: a list of substrings that could be used. For example: pacman-blinky, pacman-pinky, pacman-inky and pacman-clyde for a maximum of 4 groups.

Thank you for considering the idea.

[drbeco]

Bellow some real examples I currently use, but that I needed to emphasize very much in class to the students, so they would not forget to follow (that is very tiresome).

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My rules for those above was:

• for some of them I determined the whole name
• for some I said what would be the prefix and told them to complete with a creative word for the team. This is really nice, because they feel more responsible for the creation.
• also I could say just the sufix or both sufix+prefix and let them complete.

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Edited: removed an image in duplicity.

[aaossa]

I need a subset of this, I would like to customize prefix and sufix for each repository. I would imagine something like this in assignment settings:

Is it possible to do this? Can I work in a PR?

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