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

[Adam Marshall]

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| 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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