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

[Joshua Swink]

Thank you - they had the be evaluated permission, and that was causing
the problem.

Josh

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:
> 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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