[Building Sakai] autosave

[Charles Hedrick]

On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Zhen Qian wrote:

> Chuck,
> 
> I think it has long been a desired feature. 
> 
> It should be easy to import into Assignment, since it has "save draft" action in place, for both assignment and assignment submission objects.
> 
> Announcement is tricky, since draft announcement is the one with open date in the future. 

I see that. It's particularly tricky if you're editing an existing announcement, since you need to save the draft but not publish it.

> Not sure about Resource tool, since it has different workflows for different resource types.

That will have the same issue if the document exists.

Yes, I being to see the issues. I'd still like to do something if we can.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Zhen
> 
> On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Charles Hedrick wrote:
> 
>> A couple of years ago we did autosave for tests and quizzes. It's helped a lot with students losing work. However there are lots of other tools, many of which would be more directed at instructors.
>> 
>> How would you feel about trying to do a few of the more used tools for 2.10? Announcements, assignments, page editing in resources?
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>> It's actually fairly easy. The Javascript used for Samigo should work with minor changes. The main thing is that there needs to be a "save draft" function that the Javascript can submit to.
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