[Contrib: Evaluation System] EvalSys-1063 -viewing results

Nicola Monat-Jacobs nicola at longsight.com
Tue Feb 5 11:36:31 PST 2013


Folks -

I contributed this feature, so I feel some culpability here. I can spend
some time on it this week. I agree, if instructors can't view results at
all, then the other box should reflect that too.

Thanks,
Nicola


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:

> Version 1.4.1 of evaluations is running on the
> http://qa5-us.sakaiproject.org/portal server -- this shows the behavior
> of the checkbox always checked but also always grayed out.
>
> It looks like a pretty easy change to both remove the checkbox and have it
> default to unchecked. Do you have developers that can work on this? I'd
> suggest the following:
>
> 1) Select the "Subversion" link from
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-1063 to see the changes made
> to implement this
> 2) Modify the EvalAssignHierarchy.java and evaluation_settings.html files
> to set the value to false and remove the checkbox
>
> We'll try to do some testing to see if the UI is misleading or if the
> "instructorsViewAllResults" is indeed always true, but are interested in if
> you are able to find more out as well.
>
> Thanks,
> - Beth
>
> On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Rebecca Peet wrote:
>
> > Hi Beth,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. On our system the box can be unchecked. The
> problem is that with 50 staff issuing 1000+ surveys, in spite of our best
> training efforts, it will likely be randomly checked/unchecked. So we need
> to understand very clearly what the implications of this checkbox are.
> >
> > We are going to begin running some tests on our dev system to try to
> understand what the checkbox being checked actually does.
> >
> > If there is a way to hide this checkbox we would like to do that.  If we
> can't hide it our second choice is to have it default to unchecked. Are
> either of these things possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rebecca Peet
> > Learning Technologies
> > UC Santa Cruz
> > 831.459.1573
> > <evalsys_settings.jpg>
> > <view_checkbox.jpg>
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Beth Kirschner wrote:
> >
> >> I believe the intent of this change (
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-1063) was to prevent
> instructors from seeing other instructors responses, but I agree that the
> screenshot below is very confusing. The checkbox on the individual eval
> remains checked and greyed out regardless of what the admin setting is.
> >>
> >> Can anyone else provide some more details?
> >>
> >> - Beth
> >>
> >> <evals.tiff>
> >>
> >> On Jan 29, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Rebecca Peet wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> We are looking for some clarification regarding the checkbox with the
> text-  "Instructors can view responses to questions about other
> instructors." In the eval settings ui page.
> >>>
> >>> At UCSC we don't allow instructors to view results. So, in the admin
> settings page we have "Instructors allowed to view results" set to "No".
> However, now that we've upgraded to 1.4 when our staff go in to create
> course evaluations even though it says instructors are not allowed to view
> results in the eval settings ui page-- to the right of that text is a
> checkbox that is on by default that allows the instructor to view the
> results of other instructors.
> >>>
> >>> I believe that this checkbox shows up in error. According to the Jira
> it's supposed to be affiliated with results viewing set to configurable. We
> have results viewing set to NO.
> >>>
> >>> Can we hide this checkbox and text? If we can't hide the text...
> >>>
> >>> What is the expected behavior?  Will the notification go to the
> primary instructor?
> >>>
> >>> Our users issuing the evals aren't instructors. They have "department"
> accounts. Will a notification go to them? To the issuer and the primary
> instructor?
> >>>
> >>> We really appreciate any help the group can provide to help us
> understand what this checkbox means and how we might be able to mitigate
> it's presence.
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Rebecca Peet
> >>> Learning Technologies
> >>> UC Santa Cruz
> >>> 831.459.1573
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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