[Contrib: Evaluation System] [New Feature] Defaults for global configurable settings

[Jim Eng]

Hi Lovemore,

I'm not sure I understand the proposal.  Are you suggesting that some properties could be settable at multiple levels?  For example, for the setting in your example (students may leave questions unanswered), an admin could set that value to "yes" or "no" and that would control all evals systemwide.  The admin could also set that property to "Configurable default to YES", which would allow someone creating an eval (usually an instructor at UCT) to choose "yes" or "no" for that property on a case-by-case basis, and if neither option is chosen at that point, it defaults to "yes".  Is that right?  Or is it that this might be configurable at multiple levels in a hierarchy?  Maybe you could give an example of how this would be used and where it is needed? 

Thanks.

Jim


On Oct 12, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Lovemore Nalube wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>  
> Stephen and I were talking about how we can set a setting to configurable but not be able to choose if that setting defaults to yes, no or any other value. This is useful to determine what an evaluation level setting defaults to. eg if "Students may leave questions unanswered" is set to "Configurable" when making the evaluation will this setting be yes or no? Admins have to set this in the UI.
>  
> Here's our subtle proposal.
>  <IMAGE.jpg>
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> The result of this feature will be to have Configurable Settings have these options:
> Yes
> No
> Configurable default to YES
> Configurable default to NO
> We'd love to here your thoughts on this.
>  
> Thanks
>  
>  
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> Lovemore Nalube
> OLE Developer (Vula)
> University of Cape Town
> http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/LovemoreN
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