[Building Sakai] Gradebook export customization fields

Aaron Zeckoski azeckoski at unicon.net
Mon Jun 25 08:42:20 PDT 2012


I am referring to allowing the user to specify the field they want
included in the config to be a value from a user or site property.
-AZ


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Savitha Prakash <savithap at umich.edu> wrote:
> Aaron,
> Are you referring to having a site-property, in addition to sakai-property?
> OR
> Are you referring to adding bunch of fields related to user and site, which
> then can be used to configure the pattern in a sakai-property.
>
> Thanks,
> Savitha
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> It might be possible to do something like:
>> userProperty:{blah}
>> siteProperty:{blah}
>>
>> added to the list of more static values:
>> userId, userEid, userEmail, userName, siteId, siteTitle, courseGrade,
>> item{grade item name} ,sortName (lastname, firstname),
>>
>> It might not work for all possible variations of property names but it
>> should work for most of them.
>>
>> -AZ
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Paul Lukasewych <plukasew at uwo.ca> wrote:
>> > At Western, a "student number" field is the big item that is missing for
>> > us
>> > in the gradebook. Our userEid is a username but the Registrar only
>> > recognizes their unique student number as an identifier. I imagine there
>> > are
>> > many other schools with the same need.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > To meet this need we are running a local modification that allows
>> > selected
>> > user properties (we use jldap-beans to map a student number ldap field
>> > as a
>> > user property) to display and export from the gradebook.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Paul Lukasewych
>> >
>> > Applications Development Team
>> >
>> > Information Technology Services
>> >
>> > Support Services Building
>> >
>> > Western University
>> >
>> > (519) 661-2111 x80513
>> >
>> > plukasew at uwo.ca
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On June 22, 2012 01:33:20 PM Savitha Prakash wrote:
>> >
>> > I am working on SAK-22204, where the idea is that, institutions want
>> > different format of gradebook export file, which they can use to import
>> > into
>> > the registrar in their respective universities.
>> > This would be achieved by configuring the following sakai properties:
>> >
>> > gradebook.institutional.export.enabled={true|false}
>> > gradebook.institutional.export.headers={true|false}
>> > gradebook.institutional.export.fields={CSV list of columns like userid,
>> > userEid, courseGrades}
>> >
>> > The fields will be defined in the language bundles, where one can
>> > customize
>> > the header Title of each fields.
>> > Some of the possible fields as listed in the jira are:
>> > userId, userEid, userEmail, userName, siteId, siteTitle, courseGrade,
>> > item{grade item name} ,sortName (lastname, firstname),
>> >
>> > So, the question is
>> > - what are the possible fields that your institutions are interested in?
>> > Is
>> > there any fields that are not covered in the list above?
>> > - what should be the defaults list of fields, I am guessing, it can be
>> > want
>> > we currently have in gradebook export- userEid, sortName (lastname,
>> > firstname), courseGrade
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> > --
>> > Savitha Prakash
>> >
>> > Application Developer
>> > ITS Teaching & Learning
>> >
>> > University of Michigan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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> Savitha Prakash
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