[Contrib: Evaluation System] Evaluation Strategy for 3akai

[John Norman]

On 11 Mar 2009, at 18:08, Steven Githens wrote:
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> Again, the Evaluation system is an interesting use case since it was  
> designed to be decoupled/standalone and not necessarily depend on  
> the concept of 'sites'.
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> -Steve

I find it interesting for a similar reason. In fact I would question  
whether we add value by including it in Sakai at all. It seems that  
for the US use case - which I am tempted to describe as the  
institution checking on the faculty - the 'independence' of a separate  
solution has merits. The thing that is shared between a course  
management system and a course evaluation system is the roster (staff  
and student, including sections) the course name and potentially some  
aspects of instructor hierarchy within the course (e.g. professor vs  
TA). The hierarchy of Quality Control (who can edit which questions,  
who can see the responses for which courses) seems to be an  
independent hierarchy. Bulk mailing has some overlap with certain  
Sakai features and aspects of questionnaire delivery seem to have high  
potential overlap with Sakai assessment technology, but that has not  
been exploited.

So all in all, I'm strongly tempted to look at it as a stand alone  
system and look at integrating it as such.

John