The YAML Subject specification aims to define a simple file format that allows to store (and export) all the metadata of a given course subject for a student. In particular it was designed to store the assessment so a program can easily parse the file and compute the final mark and show all the available information of the subject.

Introduction

YAML Subject files are encoded in plain YAML, are identified with a double filename extension .subject.yaml and include all the metadata of a subject and its assessment. The main principles of the YAML Subject format are that it must be:

• Simple
• Human readable
• Easy to modify
• Extensible
• Compatible

Structure

The following are the defined keys of a YAML Subject file. Each YAML Subject file describes a unique subject for one student, so each of these properties is about that particular subject and student:

Status

The status key of the subject is an integer that indicates the following:

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Assessment

The assessment key is an array that includes all the marks of the subject needed to compute the final mark and a some other important information.

Each element of the array is a dictionary with the following keys:

Example

Here is an example of a full YAML Subject file (AACT.subject.yaml):

course: Master in Electronic Engineering (MEE)
institution: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
codename: AACT
name: Advanced Analog Circuit Techniques
code: 230642
credits: 5
type: Core
year: 2015/16
term: 2
status: 1
web: http://atenea.upc.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=31281
assessment:
  - description: Deliveries
    mark: 7
    weight: 0.2
  - description: Mid-Term Exam
    mark: 8
    weight: 0.2
  - description: Final Exam
    mark: 76
    fullscale: 100
    weight: 0.6

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