[Contrib: Evaluation System] Instructor vs Course category and grouping - functioning as designed?

[Ellen Yu Borkowski]

I can put in a JIRA ticket.

Ellen

On Sep 23, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Stephen Marquard wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I agree - the UI should not let you do something that doesn't make
> sense, i.e. one should only be able to group items that share the same
> scale and category.
> 
> Is there a JIRA for this yet? 
> 
> Regards
> Stephen 
> 
>>>> Ellen Yu Borkowski <eyb at umd.edu> 9/22/2010 8:35 PM >>> 
> Aaron
> 
> Thanks.  What if we could have the template interface act a little
> differently.  When one selects an item, other items with the same scale
> get an asterisk next to it that helps you select other items to group. 
> Perhaps we had another layer to that - when one selects an item, other
> items with the same scale AND same category have an asterisk appear next
> to them.  This saves having to display a dialog box warning you that you
> have different category items in the group and in a sense helps the user
> be more efficient I think.
> 
> Ellen
> 
> On Sep 15, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
> 
>> The backend piece is handling this correctly by forcing the items
> into
>> the same category, however, the frontend should probably be a lot
> more
>> friendly about this. I had it in my head that the frontend used to
>> stop this from happening but I think the functionality might have
> been
>> lost in the recent round of changes.
>> 
>> I think the right way to handle this is to at least warn the user
> and
>> it is probably best to simply stop them from putting items from
>> different categories in the same items group.
>> 
>> -AZ
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Ellen Yu Borkowski <eyb at umd.edu>
> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> This question may need to be addressed by Aaron as he may be the
> only one
>>> who knows the original design for this.  Here's a scenario in which
> I've
>>> created several instructor category items and course category items
> and I am
>>> now working in the template adding items, grouping, etc.  The
> scenario below
>>> are steps taken after opening a template to edit:  [Note:  for this
>>> scenario, all course and instructor category items all have the same
> scale.]
>>> 1.  Add several course category items to the template
>>> 2.  Add several instructor category items to the template
>>> 3.  Select a course category item because I want to group them.  I
> select
>>> all course category items along with one instructor category item
> (by
>>> mistake).
>>> 4.  Select "Create group" button.
>>> 5.  I am given the open in the dialog box to select (again) the
> category
>>> that I want the grouped items to be in.  I select "course"
>>> 6.  I save the group and start checking my work.
>>> 7.  In looking at the preview, I notice that I have included an
> instructor
>>> item by mistake in my course item grouping.
>>> 8.  I go back and ungroup the items and regroup the course items.
>>> 9.  In going back to check the one instructor item I had mistakenly
> put into
>>> the course grouping, I notice it is now marked as a course category
> item
>>> instead of an instructor item (as it was originally defined).
>>> Now, if I didn't know the tool so well, I may not have gone back and
> checked
>>> the individual instructor category item to make sure it was marked
> correctly
>>> in the template.  I should not that in the "My Items" database, the
>>> particular item is still defined correctly as an instructor category
> item.
>>> Question is this - is this working "as designed"?  I think I've had
> this
>>> conversation with Aaron in the past, but can't remember if this was
> designed
>>> in this fashion.
>>> For the community - do you think a "warning" dialog box should
> appear when
>>> items of different categories are grouped together?  I personally
> think this
>>> is needed, but that is because of the workflow at Maryland.  This
> may not be
>>> the case for others, but I wanted to toss this out for discussion.
>>> Ellen
>>> ---
>>> Ellen Yu Borkowski
>>> Director, Academic Support
>>> Office of Information Technology
>>> University of Maryland
>>> College Park, MD  20742-2411
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> University of Maryland
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Ellen Yu Borkowski
Director, Academic Support
Office of Information Technology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-2411
301.405.2922 (o)
301.830.0196 (c)
301.405.0720 (f)
Email: eyb at umd.edu
http://www.oit.umd.edu/as/staff/Ellen.html