[Contrib: Evaluation System] Compulsory question settings

[Adam Marshall]

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| From: evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:evaluation-
| bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Marquard
| Sent: 23 July 2010 10:07
| To: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org
| Subject: [Contrib: Evaluation System] Compulsory question settings
| 
| 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"). 

I agree 100%

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).

To me that is the logical way of doing it

| 
| 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?

This works for me esp. as the default is for a question NOT to be compulsory so you actually have to be proactive to add a compulsory question.

adam

| 
| Cheers
| Stephen
| 
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