[Building Sakai] Assignment submission issue

Will Humphries whumphri at vt.edu
Tue Jan 31 08:03:16 PST 2012


I think this was fixed in trunk r89037 , associated with SAK-13789. The 
2.7.x merge is r92289 if anyone's unable to review that JIRA.

-Will

On 1/30/12 10:40 PM, Zhen Qian wrote:
> Hi, Kelly:
>
> I found this old sakai-dev email thread about the same problem: 
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2011-February/011238.html
>
> Looks like Chuck had put in some investigation into the problem and 
> thought it might be triggered from instructor double clicking on the 
> navigation buttons.
>
> Chuck also mentioned a possible patch in the thread. However, I cannot 
> find any relevant jira for this. Chuck, have you applied the local 
> patch afterwards?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Zhen
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Geng, Kelly wrote:
>
>> Zhen,
>> I got an another incident today which seems similar in nature to the 
>> last one: in grading an assignment, the instructor saw 2 exactly 
>>  same submissions of 2 students next to each other on the roster. She 
>> graded both submissions and returned the grades(0 for both) thinking 
>> that they are plagiarism, but the students were shocked and denied 
>> vehemently.So she reported this issue to see whether it was a system 
>> error (or something else).
>> When I looked at the submissions table, there is only 1 submission 
>> with a "submit date" and the "submitted text" in the xml file, but 
>> both have the same submitted text in the "feedback text" field. It 
>> seems like only 1 student submitted the work, but somehow the text 
>> got copied to the other student's 'feedback text'. But I can't see 
>> what can possibly cause this. Now this (one student's submission gets 
>> copied to another student) has happened to 2 instructors, can you 
>> think of any scenario to lead to this? I attached both student's 
>> submission xml for your reference.
>> Thanks,
>> Kelly
>> *From:*sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org>[mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org]*On 
>> Behalf Of*Geng, Kelly
>> *Sent:*Sunday, January 29, 2012 9:10 PM
>> *To:*Zhen Qian
>> *Cc:*sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
>> *Subject:*Re: [Building Sakai] Assignment submission issue
>> Thanks Zhen!
>> Kelly
>> *From:*Zhen Qian[mailto:zqian at umich.edu] 
>> <mailto:[mailto:zqian at umich.edu]>
>> *Sent:*Friday, January 27, 2012 3:32 PM
>> *To:*Geng, Kelly
>> *Cc:*sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
>> *Subject:*Re: Assignment submission issue
>> Kelly:
>> Based on the xml file, the feedbacktext and feedbacktext-html fields 
>> are somehow empty, while the submittedtext and submittedtext-html 
>> still contain the original student submission.
>> The feedbacktext defaults to be student submitted text at first. 
>> However, instructor can add inline feedback text there and hence 
>> rewrite it. Maybe during the grading period, instructor accidentally 
>> cleared the feedback text field, and then released the grading to 
>> student?
>> You can use the "Download All" feature in instructor grading view to 
>> get the original student submitted text, and let instructor paste 
>> it(along with his feedbacks) into the feedback text area to "restore" 
>> the student submission materials.
>> Thanks,
>> - Zhen
>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Geng, Kelly wrote:
>>
>> Zhen,
>> We are running 2.7.x.  I was able to verify that the submitted text 
>> is not showing(blank) in both instructor and the student's view.
>> I was able to decode the submitted text successfully. The student 
>> already sent her saved copy to the instructor for grading but didn't 
>> try to submit it again.
>> Kelly
>> *From:*Zhen Qian[mailto:zqian at umich.edu] 
>> <mailto:[mailto:zqian at umich.edu]>
>> *Sent:*Friday, January 27, 2012 2:33 PM
>> *To:*Geng, Kelly
>> *Cc:*sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
>> *Subject:*Re: Assignment submission issue
>> Hi, Kelly:
>> What version of Sakai are you running?
>> I did see the student submission text included in the xml file. You 
>> can use Base64 decoder to view the original text, e.g. use this url: 
>> http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/base64decode/
>> Can you login as the instructor and verify the problem?
>> Thanks,
>> - Zhen
>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Geng, Kelly wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Zhen,
>> We have a faculty who claims that she was reading a student's in-line 
>> submission when it changes to another student's(the student right 
>> next in the roster) submission somehow. And after she logged out and 
>> back in, the original student's submission disappeared. I looked into 
>> the assignment_submission table and found the submission as attached. 
>> It seems to me there WAS submitted-text recorded. Can you shed some 
>> light on this?
>> Thanks,
>> Kelly
>> <assignment_submission_disppeared.xml>
>> <ass_collinm8.xml><ass_christcr.xml>
>
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