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

Nicola Monat-Jacobs nicola at longsight.com
Tue Feb 19 15:54:37 PST 2013


Folks -

I contributed a patch on
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-1374- it make take a sec
to show up on the svn tab, so it's rev 82773.

Thanks,
Nicola


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Nicola Monat-Jacobs
<nicola at longsight.com>wrote:

> 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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