[Contrib: Evaluation System] survey reminders - what was the original intention?

[Adam Marshall]

This is great news! 

It's not exactly a bug fix but it does appear to be intended functionality which is missing so it would get my vote to go in 1.3

adam

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Stephen Marquard [mailto:stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za]
| Sent: 30 October 2010 08:25
| To: Adam Marshall; Aaron Zeckoski
| Cc: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org
| Subject: Re: [Contrib: Evaluation System] survey reminders - what was
| the original intention?
| 
| This functionality is in the UCT branch - I'm not sure right now if
| it's in trunk - if not, it's probably on the "to-be-reviewed prior to
| merge" list for trunk.
| 
| Regards
| Stephen
| 
| 
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| Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
| Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
| http://www.cet.uct.ac.za
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| 
| >>> Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> 10/29/2010 5:48 PM >>>
| thanks Aaron
| 
| I will look even harder for such an option. initially I thought, like
| you, there would be a checkbox but couldn’t find it hence the email.
| 
| If I cant figure it out I'll create a Jira and maybe we will get around
| to adding the missing functionality.
| 
| adam
| 
| | -----Original Message-----
| | From: azeckoski at gmail.com [mailto:azeckoski at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
| | Aaron Zeckoski
| | Sent: 29 October 2010 15:43
| | To: Adam Marshall
| | Cc: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org
| | Subject: Re: [Contrib: Evaluation System] survey reminders - what was
| | the original intention?
| |
| | No, I am saying I think there is an option (a checkbox or radio
| button
| | or something) for this which is controllable by a system setting. I
| | think the setting is turning off that option by default. I suspect
| | turning on the setting would make that option appear.
| |
| | I don't know who to speak to at UM about it. This email list is the
| | best way to reach them probably.
| |
| | -AZ
| |
| |
| |
| |
| | On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Adam Marshall
| | <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
| | >
| | >
| | > | -----Original Message-----
| | > | From: azeckoski at gmail.com [mailto:azeckoski at gmail.com] On Behalf
| Of
| | > | Aaron Zeckoski
| | > | Sent: 29 October 2010 15:19
| | > | To: Adam Marshall
| | > | Cc: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org
| | > | Subject: Re: [Contrib: Evaluation System] survey reminders - what
| | was
| | > | the original intention?
| | > |
| | > | I believe UM added an option for this which is controllable by a
| | > | system setting. It would appear someone forgot to hide the text
| | along
| | > | with hiding the checkbox but that's just a guess.
| | > |
| | > | -AZ
| | >
| | > Are you saying you think there is a system flag but no checkbox in
| | the user interface? Could you explain further? I don’t really
| | understand what you're saying above.
| | >
| | > Who would be the best person to speak to at UM about this?
| | >
| | > adam
| | >
| | >
| | > |
| | > |
| | > | On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Adam Marshall
| | > | <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
| | > | > I have a question. (I have another but will send that in a
| follow
| | up
| | > | email.)
| | > | >
| | > | > On the 'Survey setting' page under the 'Survey Reminders'
| section
| | > | there is the following text:
| | > | >
| | > | > =
| | > | > An email will be sent out to your respondents on the morning of
| | the
| | > | day the survey opens. View and edit the notification email The
| | default
| | > | email is designed for surveys to evaluate student courses and may
| | not
| | > | be appropriate for other kinds of surveys.
| | > | >
| | > | >   Send notification email the day the survey goes live
| | > | > =
| | > | >
| | > | > (note the intentional indentation)
| | > | >
| | > | > The line "Send notification email the day the survey goes live"
| | is
| | > | rendered in such a way as it looks like it should be controlled
| by
| | an
| | > | administration setting. (A comparable example would be:
| "Lecturers
| | opt-
| | > | in settings Lecturers must be surveyed" - this is set via the
| | > | Administrate screen and cannot be changed by users.)
| | > | >
| | > | > In the case of  "Send notification email the day the survey
| goes
| | > | live" there is no corresponding option on the "Control Email"
| | screen
| | > | within the administrator settings.
| | > | >
| | > | > Q: was the intention that this should be something that the
| | > | administrator can either force or leave up to the user to decide
| | but
| | > | the desired functionality was never added due to lack of time?
| | > | >
| | > | > In other words, should there but and administrator option on
| the
| | > | Control Email screen which looks like
| | > | >
| | > | >  "Send notification email the day the survey goes live" ()
| Always
| | ()
| | > | Configurable () Never
| | > | >
| | > | >  - The 'Always' option reflects the current situation
| | > | >
| | > | >  - The 'Configurable' option would present a set of radio
| buttons
| | to
| | > | the end user:
| | > | >
| | > | >       "Send notification email the day the survey goes live" ()
| | Yes
| | > | () No
| | > | >
| | > | > - The Never option is self explanatory - the initial message
| will
| | > | never be sent.
| | > | >
| | > | > The reason I ask is that people want to be able to assign a
| | survey
| | > | but not send an initial message.
| | > | >
| | > | > Adam
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| | >
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