Allow User to Specify Conflict Relations when Creating Teams

[shafferz]

Description of the Issue

Currently, conflict avoidance is supported with the group_random grouping algorithm. What is not currently supported is the actual input on the website of GatorGrouper to use this function of the random grouping algorithm. What is needed is a simple way for the user to enter two names and a number (integer) that represents the severity of the conflict. I suggest using a 1-5 scale (perhaps radio buttons indicating a range of Smallest/Small/Normal/Large/Largest Severity), but the number can be any positive integer allowing for ranging 0-100, 1-99, etc,. There also should be a way to input multiple conflicts, forming a list of 3-tuples for use in the algorithm. Read below for more details about how the conflict-avoidance algorithm works.

More Information

Functionality for conflict-avoidance was completed as of PR #277. The way this works is documented in the code, but pretty much requires a list of 3-tuples ((var1, var2, var3)) with the two names of the students between whom there are grouping conflicts and a conflict score to denote the severity of the conflict. E.g., if the instructor does not want two students Jimmy and Jason in a group together because they are disruptive or do not get along, they should be able to input the names of the students and a number to represent the severity (let's say 3). These names should be sent to the algorithm in the form of a list of 3-tuples [("Jimmy", "Jason", 3)]. The list of 3-tuples is an optional argument that can be passed to the function. Read the code for more details if further clarification is needed.

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