[Contrib: Evaluation System] Two feature changes

[Aaron Zeckoski]

> Allow free-text questions to be made compulsory
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-951
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> This would be an extension of the capability already present to make individual rating-scale and MCQ options compulsory, allowing the Compulsory yes/no checkbox to be used for free-text questions as well. This is for some survey use-cases we have.


I would strongly caution you about this one. In my experience this
results in a lot of answers like "asdf". This is why we removed the
option from the system design back in the planning stages in 2005. If
you are OK with receiving a lot of noise then please feel free to add
this in but make sure it is disabled by default so that the option
does not appear in the evaluation config (it should also be
configurable on a per evaluation basis I would guess) and does not
adversely affect anyone else.

-AZ


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Stephen Marquard
<stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> UCT has 2 relatively short-term requirements for feature changes, viz.:
>
> Email Confirmation of Submission
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-765
>
> Looks like this has been implemented by UM in a local branch. Is there any outstanding work required before this can be merged to trunk?
>
> We would probably need this to be configurable on a per-evaluation basis in the same way as the initial notification email (i.e. an email template inherited from the evaluation template which can be customized per evaluation).
>
> Allow free-text questions to be made compulsory
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-951
>
> This would be an extension of the capability already present to make individual rating-scale and MCQ options compulsory, allowing the Compulsory yes/no checkbox to be used for free-text questions as well. This is for some survey use-cases we have.
>
> We would like to canvass any views on the above so we can look at incorporating them in a local branch for subsequent review and merge to trunk if acceptable.
>
> Regards
> Stephen
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