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

Aaron Zeckoski azeckoski at unicon.net
Fri Oct 29 07:19:06 PDT 2010


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


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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