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

Adam Marshall adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Fri Oct 29 08:48:44 PDT 2010


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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