[Building Sakai] Two seperate issues with Assignments

[Zhen Qian]

Hi, Chris:

My Comments inline:

On Dec 9, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Chris Ribble wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> We have run into another mysterious assignments problem and I just wanted to see if anyone else has seen anything similar to this. 
> 
> We had an instructor report that 3 students had submitted attachment-only assignments but that there were no attachments in their submission. The instructor also found a report in site stats that showed that each student had successfully created/uploaded the attached files into the resources section. Upon inspecting the database the files actually exist in the content_resource table. I checked the assignment_submissions table and it has their submission, submitted at the correct time, but without any reference to an attachment. Does anyone have any theories on why this happened or has anyone seen anything similar? There was also a draft saved (automatically) as well in each students case. 
> 

It seems like the student has the ability to upload in the resources tool. Is it possible that they uploaded the files first, and edited those files or removed those files afterwards. Can you please check the availabilities of the resource paths in the assignment attachments ?


> Also, a few weeks ago I posted this question and I'm not sure if anyone saw it: 
> 
> We have come across what seems to be a bug in our 2.7.x environment. I have been able to reproduce it on the Nightly2 QA Server as well. 
> 
> Steps to reproduce: 
> 1. Create an assignment(any kind) and have students submit. 
> 2. Download all submissions but do not grade or add grades to grades.csv. 
> 3. Add feedback attachments for at least 1 student 
> 4. Re-zip and Upload All. 
> 5. Try to Release All Grades(just trying to release feedback since they are all ungraded) from submission list and fail. 
> 
> The Instructor can go into each submission one by one and still release the feedback, but for 100 students that can become extremely tedious. Is this the intended process for releasing feedback for students before giving them a grade? What about assignments with the Ungraded specification, the Instructor would have to grade and release each submission, making upload all and download all pointless? 

I checked the resource code of "Release Grades". It turns out that "release" works only if the submission has been graded.  If you think this is a problem, please submit a jira for it.

Thanks,

- Zhen
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