[Building Sakai] YAFT: Single User View & Gradebook Integration

[Nate Angell]

Thanks Vivie! You expanded my understanding of JForum  
significantly...the Grading Posts – Student View looks much like what  
clients have been asking for.
http://etudes.org/release/discussion/2.5/page14n.html

Also, the gradebook integration overall looks fantastic!

Alas, the issue of threaded views for posts in JForum is a stumbling  
block for many users. Looking at the original JForum project, I don't  
see any work on that, but perhaps you can lead me to some answers  
about threading as well...I'm sure this is not the first time you've  
encountered the issue.

On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Vivie Sinou wrote:

>> We have a number of clients that have issues with both
>> Forums/Message Center and Discussion Forums/JForum because it
>> is not easy to view all the posts/comments for a single user
>> in one view for grading purposes.
>>
>> So two questions:
>>
>> 1) Is there a view in YAFT or would one be easy to deliver
>> where an instructor could view every contribution by a given user?
>>
>> 2) Does YAFT have Gradebook integration? And if so, on what
>> level can contributions be graded?
>>
>> Thanks for any information you can give!
>
> Nate -
>
> Perhaps you are looking for something different, but Jforum supports  
> what
> you are describing above (released in Jforum 2.5, a year ago).
>
> In the forum grading view of Jforum, instructors CAN view all of the  
> posts
> (new topics and replies) of a user from one forum - all in one page,  
> if the
> forum is set to be a gradable forum (assign one grade for all the  
> posts to a
> forum - 1 grade goes to GB for the forum).
>
> Or, if instructors are grading by-topic (meaning that each topic is  
> set to
> be a UNIQUE item in the gradebook), then in Jforum's grading view,
> instructors can see all the replies of a user (all in one page) to the
> topic.
>
> In our next Jforum release, we'll introduce grade-by-category (an
> organizational structure - holds a number of forums under it). With  
> this new
> feature, faculty will be able to see all posts of a user from ALL  
> the forums
> in a category (in one page, under grading), and assign one grade for  
> all of
> it.
>
> A quick overview of Jforum's grading functionality as it relates to  
> viewing
> all contributions of a user can be found here:
> http://etudes.org/release/discussion/2.5/index.html
>
> Best,
> Vivie
>
> --
> Vivie Sinou
> Executive Director, Etudes, Inc.
> http://etudes.org/
>