[Building Sakai] Assignment import/export

[Sean Keesler]

This has been recorded as SAK-17254.

Sean Keesler
130 Academy Street
Manlius, New York 13104 USA
315-663-7756
sean.keesler at threecanoes.com



On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Jeff Ziegler <ziegler at umich.edu> wrote:
> Agreed.  And so is the idea to give instructors an option to allow students
> to share and comment on each other's submissions.
> Jeff
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> On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u) wrote:
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> Yes.  And that's a very good idea for improving the Assignments tool.
> Yitna Firdyiwek
> Faculty Consultant, Instructional Technology
> Teaching Resource Center
> Univerisity of Virginia
> ybf2u at virginia.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sean at keesler.org [mailto:sean at keesler.org] On Behalf Of Sean Keesler
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:36 AM
> To: Jeff Ziegler
> Cc: Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u); Sakai Dev
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Assignment import/export
> The "sharing" I am referring to is related to the assignment
> description...the name of the assignment, the instructions, etc. as a
> way for teachers to collaborate on a set of department assignments
> that meet department needs.
> Very different than sharing student work done in response to those
> assignments.
> Sean Keesler
> 130 Academy Street
> Manlius, New York 13104 USA
> 315-663-7756
> sean.keesler at threecanoes.com
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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Jeff Ziegler <ziegler at umich.edu> wrote:
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> On Oct 3, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u) wrote:
> Another feature we sorely miss in the Assignments tool (one of our legacy
> systems used to be able to do it) is to be able to let students share and
> comment on each other's assignments submissions (if the instructor wants
> them to) in groups or as a whole class.  This is a more complicated request,
> of course, but I wanted to mention it in the context of improving the
> Assignments tool.
> Questions on how students can share and provide feedback on assignment
> submissions are pretty common at UMIch.  To accomplish this goal, we
> recommend creating Discussions or Forums topics and having students post
> their submissions, but it would be nice if the ability to share submissions
> was added to Assignments.
> Jeff
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> On Oct 3, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u) wrote:
> That's a great idea.  We have a couple of departments that are using sites
> to collect assignments, but they are doing it in document form (in
> resources).  Simplifying the import/export process would make the
> assignments that much more valuable for the faculty who use them.
> Another feature we sorely miss in the Assignments tool (one of our legacy
> systems used to be able to do it) is to be able to let students share and
> comment on each other's assignments submissions (if the instructor wants
> them to) in groups or as a whole class.  This is a more complicated request,
> of course, but I wanted to mention it in the context of improving the
> Assignments tool.
> Yitna Firdyiwek
> yitna at virginia.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Sean Keesler
> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:54 AM
> To: Sakai Dev
> Subject: [Building Sakai] Assignment import/export
> Has anyone ever had the need to import/export assignments?
> The idea being that teachers might want to be able to share examples
> of good assignments or collect and organize them in a central site for
> sharing.
> It would seem that an assignment description and supporting files
> could be zipped up easily enough.
> Sean Keesler
> 130 Academy Street
> Manlius, New York 13104 USA
> 315-663-7756
> sean.keesler at threecanoes.com
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