Assessments featuring open-ended and coding questions are staples of the Computer Science curriculum, yet automatically validating these answers remains a significant challenge. While Regular Expressions (regex) are the industry standard for text pattern matching, their cryptic syntax makes them notoriously difficult to write, read, and maintain. Existing tools typically focus on testing regex or inserting common patterns, but fail to make the editing process intuitive or the results readable. This work introduces ReRead, a human-readable text pattern editor and JavaScript library that generates standard regular expressions compatible with major Learning Management Systems (LMS) and auto-graders. We demonstrate ReRead in two distinct scenarios: (1) creating flexible answer keys for open-ended questions in LMS exams, and (2) generating unit tests for student code within a custom Python auto-grading platform.

This paper presents ConnectPlus, a full-stack project management

application designed to unify multiple collaboration features within a single

platform, including a dashboard, project workspace, messaging, task

tracking, alerts, and user settings. The application addresses a common

challenge in group work: communication often becomes scattered across

multiple tools, leading to missed updates and fragmented information. The

proposed application, ConnectPlus provides a centralized environment

where students, instructors, and coworkers can manage tasks, share

updates, and maintain all project information in one dependable location.

The proposed application is implemented using MERN stack, MongoDB,

Express.js, React.js, and Node.js, with supporting middleware such as

CORS, JSON parsing, and environment configuration to ensure reliable

server behavior. A key feature is the integrated alerts system, which enables

users to send immediate notifications about needs, locations, or urgent

updates, helping prevent important information from being lost. The

proposed application serves both as a practical collaboration application and

as a demonstration of full-stack development, backend design, and scalable

communication features.

As part of a computer science curriculum, it is typical to separate individual fields into separate courses. Specifically for security, this is difficult due to the breadth of the field and the amount of knowledge from other fields necessary for a well-rounded understanding. While many larger institutions are moving towards programs in this field, many small liberal arts colleges do not have the resources to support this. In this work, we examine the difficulties of teaching security in this setting and compare techniques for teaching this difficult topic.