[DG: Teaching & Learning] Question on student sign ups

[Beith, Linda]

Thanks Neal. Sounds like the Joinable group feature would work. I'll follow up on adding this to our instance.

The wiki is also a good option.
Linda


Linda L. Beith, Ph.D.
Director, Instructional Design
Roger Williams University
Lbeith at rwu.edu<mailto:Lbeith at rwu.edu>
401-254-3134

On Dec 31, 2013, at 7:22 AM, "Neal Caidin" <neal.caidin at apereo.org<mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>> wrote:

Hi Linda,

Sorry for the late response.

For #1, there is a new feature in Sakai 10 called Joinable groups, which does exactly what it sounds like you want. A patch was also provided for Sakai 2.9, therefore it should be possible to add it to your Sakai, if you are on version 2.9 .

For #2, the best idea I can think of at the moment is to use the Wiki tool. It would be trivial to have a list of topics and have each student put his/her name next to a topic and immediately others can see which topics are left. Relatively low tech solution, but maybe it would work?

Cheers,
Neal

Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation


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Beith, Linda<mailto:lbeith at rwu.edu>
November 19, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Hi everyone,
I have a couple of faculty requests that are similar and I thought I’d run them by the group to see if anyone has discovered solutions.


 1.  A faculty member wants to have groups of 3 or 4 students do a video explanation of separate math concepts. He would like the students to sign up for their own groups.
 2.  Another faculty member has students sign up for a topic to do a final project and wants students to identify their first choice on the list. Only one topic per student so that when the first person signs up for a topic it is no longer available to everyone else in the class.
I have looked at the Group tool – no self signup available – and the Sign Up tool – limited to day and time slots. I also looked at the Quiz/Survey tool but this doesn’t work either since the students can’t see other responses and there is no way to limit access once the first choice was made.

Anyone else run into these types of scenarios and found a solution?
I’d appreciate any suggestions.
Linda


Linda L. Beith, Ph.D.
Roger Williams University
Director, Instructional Design
One Old Ferry Road, Bristol RI
401-254-3134
Website: id.rwu.edu<http://id.rwu.edu/>

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