Both student-facing surfaces (the per-device join page and the
front-of-room projector) now render options as text only, no A/B/C/D
chips, no numeric prefixes. The letter-namespace remains internal:
canonical A..D in pool.json + submissions storage; canonical position
1..4 in the CSV export. Admin dashboard keeps letters because it is the
instructor's private console.
Why this lands now: the discussion of per-student option shuffling
flagged that A/B/C/D as discussion handles ("the answer is B") is itself
a leaky channel. Removing the labels closes that channel for the
non-shuffled case and keeps it closed if shuffling is added later.
Wire protocol: the submit message carries the option's full text
("answer": "Pipelining"). Server's submit_answer resolves text -> letter
via app.pool.resolve_option_key, which also accepts a canonical letter
so internal callers and tests stay readable. A non-matching string is
recorded as a zero-score submission with answer=NULL, locked in via the
PK + existing_submit_ack short-circuit. So an attempted UI bypass that
posts a fabricated string just produces a wrong answer; no retry.
CSV: A=1 .. D=2 .. C=3 .. D=4 in the answer column. Empty when no option
matched. Header unchanged so downstream pandas readers don't break, but
the value type is int instead of letter.
Histogram: the failsafe "submitted-but-no-match" row buckets into
"missed" alongside genuine misses — both yield zero credit and the
instructor cares about the same thing.
Tests:
- test_submit_accepts_option_text_resolves_to_canonical: production
wire format produces correct grading + canonical-letter storage.
- test_submit_failsafe_locks_in_zero_score_on_garbage_text: a non-
matching string is recorded at score=0 and a follow-up correct
submission cannot overwrite it.
71/71 green.
Backend simplification:
- The server now loads ONE pool JSON from $QUIZ_POOL_PATH at startup and
upserts a single canonical session. The session id comes from the pool
JSON's optional "session_id" field, falling back to $QUIZ_SESSION_ID.
- The multi-quiz / multi-session CRUD API is gone:
DELETED GET/POST /admin/api/quizzes
DELETED POST /admin/api/quizzes/upload
DELETED GET/POST /admin/api/sessions
DELETED GET /admin/login (HTML stub)
DELETED GET /admin/api/sessions/{sid}/csv (replaced by /admin/api/csv)
Replaced with a single-session control surface:
GET /admin/ — serves admin.html unconditionally
GET /admin/api/state — admin-gated; pool meta + state + QR + join URL
POST /admin/api/reset — admin-gated; wipe submissions + back to lobby
POST /admin/logout — clear admin cookie
GET /admin/api/csv — single-session results
WS /ws/instructor/{sid} — kept; new commands "next" + "reset"
- Instructor "Next" button is now a single state-driving command
(RoomManager.advance_to_next): from lobby it opens Q0; from question_open
it closes the current Q and opens the next; from question_closed it
opens the next; if past the last question it ends the session.
- New RoomManager.reset wipes submissions, participants, and per-question
state, then broadcasts a clean lobby.
- Student GET / now redirects to /?sid=<canonical> when no sid is given,
so the QR / share URL is fully deterministic.
Frontend rewrite (functional baseline; visual polish to follow):
- /admin/ is now a single SPA: GET /admin/api/state decides login form
vs dashboard. No separate /admin/login URL bar.
- Admin dashboard is state-driven with one primary action per state.
QR code, join URL, and live participant list are always visible on the
left so the operator can leave the page on a projector.
- Student answer buttons are big and tappable; reveal screen highlights
correct/wrong choice + shows score, total, and rank.
- Static admin/student SPAs share a CSS palette with light/dark support.
Tests rewritten around the single canonical session id.
The auto-bootstrapped session lets each test fixture skip the old
quiz/session creation dance. 39/39 tests pass.
Cleanup:
- Deleted CODEX_PROMPT.md, IMPLEMENTATION_REPORT.md, NOTES.md, SPEC.md,
static/observer.html (obsolete codex-build artifacts and the unused
observer view).
- .gitignore now blocks /pool.json (the runtime file the operator drops
on the server) and the leftover .codex_done / codex_run.log / etc.
- bootstrap.sh seeds /opt/quiz/pool.json from examples/pool_example.json
on first deploy so a fresh box reaches a usable state without manual
intervention; .env now includes QUIZ_POOL_PATH.
