[Contrib: Evaluation System] Questions on groups, direct links, and permalinks

Aaron Zeckoski aaronz at vt.edu
Thu Mar 5 13:58:44 PST 2009


Try clicking on the link that appears to the left of the edit one
(should be the name of the assigned group or just something that says
"n groups".
-AZ


On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Jonny Brown <jonny.brown at rsmart.com> wrote:
> Thanks very much for the help, Aaron. I appreciate the info on direct links,
> permalinks. and when/why evaluators change groups.
>
> Still having a problem with adding groups for active evals.  The reason I
> can't add a group or change the makeup of an assigned group is that there's
> no way (that I can find) for me to get to the screen where I'd make those
> changes. When an eval is active, if I start on My Evaluations and click the
> Edit link for the evaluation, I go to the Evaluation Settings screen. If I
> click Save Settings on that screen, I get routed back to My Evaluations.
> (There's no Continue to Assig to Courses button.) If I start at My
> Evaluations and click the linked group name associated with an evaluation, I
> get routed to a read-only display of Display Evaluation Assignments. So,
> assuming that I'm starting on the My Evaluations screen, how do I access the
> screen that lets me add a group or add a person to an assigned group for an
> active eval? (I'm probably missing something obvious or I have something set
> up wrong.)
>
> Best,
> Jonny
>
> Sr. Information Architect
> rSmart
> 602-490-0469
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Zeckoski" <aaronz at vt.edu>
> To: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org, "Jonny Brown"
> <jonny.brown at rsmart.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 11:46:22 AM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time
> (Arizona)
> Subject: Re: Questions on groups, direct links, and permalinks
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Jonny Brown <jonny.brown at rsmart.com> wrote:
>> When an evaluation is active, I think I'm supposed to be able to add
>> groups,
>> but I don't see a way to do so. (I can add and change groups for in-queue
>> evals with no problem; it's only active evals I'm having troub! le with).
>> ups to an active eval? Or can't I?
>
> You can add groups by going back into the view where you selected the
> groups initially.
>
>> For a template, it looks to me as though you would send someone the
>> permalink if you don't want them to have to log into Sakai in order to
>> preview your template. It looks as though you would send the person the
>> direct link if you want them to log in before viewing the preview. Is this
>> correct?
>
> This is correct.
>
>> For evaluations, I'm totally lost about permalink and direct link. They
>> seem
>> to me to do the exact same thing (except that one URL references the eval
>> and the other references the group). When would you give someone the
>> permalink and when would you give him/her the direct link?
>
> The one that refers to the eval itself will work for anyone who is in
> any group which is part of the evaluation. The group link will only
> work for those users in tha! t specifi the auth control setting is anonymous
> for an eval, I notice that the
>> permalink presents the evaluation and gives me the option to change
>> groups.
>> The direct link, on the other hand, presents the eval and does not give me
>> the option to change groups. Why would someone change groups?
>
> If you arrived at the evaluation and you are a member of multiple
> groups then the assumption is that you are allowed to take the
> evaluation for each group. For example: you are in math 101 and comm
> 201 and are taking course eval A, you should be able to take it as a
> math 101 student or a comm 201 student and may actually get different
> questions depending on what you select.
>
> -AZ
>
> --
> Aaron Zeckoski (aaronz at vt.edu)
> Senior Research Engineer - CARET - Cambridge University
> [http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/~aaronz/]
> Sakai Fellow - [http://aaronz-sakai.blogspot.com/]
>



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Aaron Zeckoski (aaronz at vt.edu)
Senior Research Engineer - CARET - Cambridge University
[http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/~aaronz/]
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