[Building Sakai] Evaluations tool: students being sent to preview evaluation

[Aaron Zeckoski]

It is probably a permissions issue. Make sure your students have the
"take eval" permission. If they happen to have the "be evaluated"
permission then it will assume they are instructors and will show them
a preview instead.
-AZ


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Joshua Swink <joshua.swink at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are trying to use the evaluation tool for course evaluations. We
> recently tried to use the evaluations, and the problem is that the URL
> in the notification email is sending students to a preview mode of the
> evaluation. They can fill in the entire evaluation, but at the end of
> the page there is no submit button.
>
> Anyone have an idea why this would happen? I double-checked the
> following things already:
>
> * Release date. We are currently between the release and close dates
> of this evaluation.
> * Authentication. The evaluation is set to require central
> authentication. Students who have authenticated are seeing the preview
> of the evaluation.
> * Email template. The email template includes the following text:
>
> "You may access the evaluation at: ${URLtoTakeEval} "
>
> It doesn't say something like "URLtoPreviewEval".. it says URLtoTakeEval.
>
> I don't see any other settings in the evaluation that seem to pertain
> to this issue. To all indications it should be working, but again,
> students are being sent to the preview of the evaluation instead of a
> page with a submit button. There are alternate instructions in the
> email to go into Sakai, and go to the site with the evaluation, and
> then the evaluation actually does work. But we'd like to get the
> direct link working as well.
>
> --
> Joshua Swink
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