[Contrib: Evaluation System] External Evaluation Group Providers

[Ellis, Richard]

George,

At U-M, a service called UMIAC provides information about all students and instructors. We wanted to give course evaluations for all courses, but we weren't sure all courses had course sites. Therefore, we chose to get evaluation group membership from UMIAC rather than from course sites.  We did that by implementing the EvalGroupsProvider API using calls to UMAIC.  You can take a look at the code in svn here:

/msub/umich.edu/ctools/ctools-providers/trunk/component/impl/src/bundle/beans/eval-beans.xml

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/msub/umich.edu/ctools/ctools-providers/trunk/component/impl/src/evaluation/org/sakaiproject/component/legacy/realm/

EvalGroupsProviderUnivOfMichImpl implements EvalGroupsProvider

There are three ways to provide evaluation groups: as ad hoc groups, as site groups, and using an implementation of the EvalGroupsProvider, which gets groups from another source, such as UMIAC.  Do you have preexisting group data you'd like to use with course evaluations?

Dick Ellis
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From: Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:23:39 -0400
To: Sean DeMonner <demonner at umich.edu>
Cc: George Carpenter <gcarpenter at PACIFIC.EDU>, evaluation <evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Subject: Re: [Contrib: Evaluation System] External Evaluation Group Providers

All of our groups come through our own implementation of the EvalGroupProvider interface, AFAIK.  That was written by Dick Ellis.

We do not import group membership info through the import servlet.  We do import EvalAssignGroup definitions through the import servlet, but those are just to connect an evaluation with a group that we get through the EvalGroupProvider.

Jim



On May 20, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Sean DeMonner wrote:

George,

I don't know this for certain, but the EvalGroupsProvider you're seeing may be related to the import work we've been doing at U-M (we import eval orders from an external PeopleSoft SIS).

Jim Eng would have details if that is the case.

Sorry, can't help with the internal groups question.

SMD.



On May 20, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Adam Marshall wrote:

I'm afraid I don't know - there are so many questions surrounding Evaluations!

I was wondering you know how to make "internal" groups work with the evaluations tool.

As I understand it, so long as permissions are set correctly on a variety of templates, one should be able to select the Group G from Site X as a "survey group". I havent been able to determine the magic combination yet!

adam

From: evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of George Carpenter
Sent: 20 May 2010 15:52
To: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Contrib: Evaluation System] External Evaluation Group Providers

I see that there is an "EvalGroupsProvider" interface that hasn't been fully implemented, as far as I can tell.
Does anyone here have a procedure for creating evaluation groups without a course site and without having to create the ad-hoc groups by hand?
We're hoping that there's a method to import the information directly in to EVALSYS.
Any information would be most helpful.

Thank you,
George Carpenter
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