[gradebook2-dev] About TA exporting or importing the grades

[Jon Gorrono]

You should see multiple submenus under 'Export' ....

The last check before the Export menu is displayed is in
InstructorView.newMoreActionsMenu() ... the isEditable flag is set via
a long trip from the server via  AuthModel ... see
isUserAbleToEditAssessments() in that class.... the value from that
field then gets transferred through various controller/view classes
via a variables with a slightly different names : isUserAbleToEdiItems
(and connote slightly different meaning)

The server sets this value in the auth =
Gradebook2Authz.hasUserGraderPermissions('gradebook UID')

You might notice then that the code was written with the lens that if
there are *any* permissions granted to a user then they must be
'grader' permissions. And since there are 'grader' permissions, the
person must be granted the ability to 'grade'....  and also that zero
permissions granted means 'no grader permissions'

Parenthetically, this strictly interprets 'permission' and probably
reflects the natural English use of the word.. but it also means that,
given the current assumptions, we cannot add any 'negative
permissions' eg "cannot do X"



On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Kim Huang <kimhuang at oit.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Yes, I can see the export menu, but when you click on the export, there is nothing, please take a look at the attachment.
> I suspect it is not gb2 problem. But I just need to find out the section of the code which handles that.
> Thanks for your patience.
>
> -Kim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Amsler" <tpamsler at ucdavis.edu>
> To: "Kim Huang" <kimhuang at oit.rutgers.edu>
> Cc: gradebook2-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:14:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [gradebook2-dev] About TA exporting or importing the grades
>
> When you access GB2 as a TA, do you see the Tools --> Export menu?
>
> -- Thomas
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Kim Huang <kimhuang at oit.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>> Thomas,
>>
>>
>> I can see the reason to allow the TA export the grades for his/her section, but not import. I asked our support to verify the correct behavior of RU GB2, if it doesn't work the way it should, then probably it is the bug that we introduced when we did the local upgrade.(
>> Which file/part of the code  does this permission verification ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Kim
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Thomas Amsler" <tpamsler at ucdavis.edu>
>> To: "Kim Huang" <kimhuang at oit.rutgers.edu>
>> Cc: gradebook2-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 1:34:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gradebook2-dev] About TA exporting or importing the grades
>>
>> I have just verified that the "Teaching Assistant" role can export
>> his/her sections. That's why GRBK-878 only addresses the import
>> functionality.
>> Best,
>> -- Thomas
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Kim Huang <kimhuang at oit.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>> Thomas,
>>> Thanks for your quick reply. So If I understand you correctly, the current GB2 doesn't grant export and import privilege to TAs. (since GRBK-878 only states import)
>>> I know at least four courses in RU ask for this feature(GRBK-878). Some class has 40 sections and 20+ TAs.
>>>
>>> Do you have any time frame for the implementation of the feature?
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>> -Kim
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Thomas Amsler" <tpamsler at ucdavis.edu>
>>> To: "Kim Huang" <kimhuang at oit.rutgers.edu>
>>> Cc: gradebook2-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:58:12 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [gradebook2-dev] About TA exporting or importing the grades
>>>
>>> Kim,
>>>
>>> This is an existing feature request:
>>>
>>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-878
>>>
>>> Make sure that you vote on that JIRA.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> -- Thomas
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Kim Huang <kimhuang at oit.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>>> Hi, Folks,
>>>> I got a report that the whole class TA could not export/import the class grades on GB2. I repeated the scenario on of the Rutgers Sakai servers. We are running version- 1.5.0-b11. I was not sure whether the TA is given the permission to export/import the grades by design. And also which part of code controls the permission for TA access.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -Kim Huang
>>>>
>>>> Rutgers University
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