[Building Sakai] Sakai 2.8 Assignment Information

[Tom Hall]

Hi Paul

I don't know of any way to make the assignment info public through the 
Sakai application without making the whole site public.

However, getting the data from the table is fairly simple.  It is base 
64 encoded to allow the information to contain special characters.  One 
line of PHP or Perl can decode this for you.

Tom


On 7/29/2011 1:43 PM, Paul Ross wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to make the assignment information public without 
> the need to log in? We need this functionality so parents can see the 
> assignment information without logging in.  We do not permit parents 
> to login to Sakai at present as we do not want to manage yet another 
> set of logins, plus a little thing called FERPA and other privacy 
> rules that are especially applicable in a K-12 environment.
>
> I can retrieve the assignment information from the database directly 
> by accessing tables assignment_assignment and assignment_content 
> however the instructions information in assignment_content appears to 
> be encrypted and not readable.  Any ideas to make it accessible? 
> Secondly is there a way to deep link to a file attached to the 
> assignment information without being logged in?   I am trying to 
> create a separate page outside of Sakai that can display this 
> information and does not require additional faculty input.
>
> Ideally it would be great in the future to see an option when an 
> assignment is created to simply check if you want to include the 
> assignment information (in full) in the public view of a Sakai 
> Course.  For example we have Public announcements, resources, 
> syllabus, an added assignments section would be advantageous.  We know 
> that you can post an assignment announcement, but the details are 
> limited and require added input when all the information already lives 
> in the assignment area.
>
> Any input or advice would be great.
>
> Thank you
> Paul
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