[Contrib: Evaluation System] Selectively allowing submission confirmation emails

Sean DeMonner demonner at umich.edu
Wed Jul 21 07:09:21 PDT 2010


> if the practice is selective (some submissions generate a confirmation, others don't) then it becomes less useful because students don't know whether to expect one or not.


Right, that idea was that high stakes transactions should always be confirmed with an email (the analogy was that when you buy something online you expect to get an email confirmation, you don't have to request one).

SMD.




On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Stephen Marquard wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I was wondering if there was any use case for allowing submission confirmation emails to be set per-evaluation. At the moment the proposed implementation is that there's a global setting, and if it's on, all submissions will generate a confirmation email (though the default template can be edited by the evaluation owner if necessary).
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> It seems to me that this is similar to Assignment submission confirmation emails, i.e. if the practice is selective (some submissions generate a confirmation, others don't) then it becomes less useful because students don't know whether to expect one or not.
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> Regards
> Stephen
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