[Contrib: Evaluation System] Compulsory question settings

[Stephen Marquard]

Hi all,

Over time the options for compulsory questions have got more complex and confusing. For example, the "allow to leave questions unanswered" (rating scale questions) is really being asked the wrong way around (it should be "make all questions compulsory"). With the addition of compulsory text questions as well, we now potentially have:

2 global options 
2 eval-specific options
setting for each evaluation question

This leads both to a confusing UI and significant complexity in QA testing and code.

I'd like to know if it's possible for everyone's use-cases to be satisfied by ONLY having the setting for each template/evaluation question (no global options, no eval-level options).

If you create and assign your own evaluations centrally (i.e. site owners don't have control or templates or eval questions), then this would mean a once-off change in practices or code (depending on if these are imported for example) to set the compulsory flag where appropriate.

If you let site owners / faculty create their own templates and evaluations, then this would mean educating users about when NOT to make a question compulsory (e.g. in most cases, the text ones).

Would this work for you?

Cheers
Stephen



 

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