[Building Sakai] how should lesson builder's site copy handle tests and assignments?

[Diego del Blanco Orobitg]

My suggestion:

In my opinion there are two ways to do it.

The simplest one: Don't publish anything and put a "red message" in the
places where there were assignments or tests with information about the name
of the test that was pointed before copy the tool to another site. As you
said in assignments there is the draft mode when you copy, in test and
quizzes instructor must publish again the test, so in lesson builder,
instructor must link again the tasks. This is logical that when copying it
you need to review all the links...

But... maybe the right way to do it, but complex, can be asking when copying
a site:  Ask if you want to automatically publish assignments, test and
quizzes or Mneme tests and link them from lesson builder... So if the answer
is yes, you can publish all as part of the copy and put in a reference to
the published copy as you said. If the answer is not then do the "simplest
option" commented before.

Regards

Diego del Blanco
www.samoo.es

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De: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
[mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] En nombre de Charles
Hedrick
Enviado el: martes, 20 de marzo de 2012 21:36
Para: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org Developers
Asunto: [Building Sakai] how should lesson builder's site copy handle tests
and assignments?

I'm about to start fixing site copy in Lesson Builder to map entities from
the old site to the new site. Currently if you have a reference to a test,
assignment or forum, the new site gets a dummy reference. It's not that hard
to update the reference to point to the corresponding object in the new
site.

However there are issues:

* In assignments, you can't actually use the new assignment until you
publish it. It starts out as draft. The gives you a chance to review things
like due date, which typically need to be different. If I do the obvious
update, the link in the new site will be to the right object, but it won't
work until the assignment is published. Should I publish it?

* In Samigo, it's even harder. Lesson Builder points to published
assessments, since that's what students use. BUt when you copy a site you
get only the core assessments. Nothing is published. That's reasonable,
since there are changes you can't make after publishing, and you'd like to
give the instructor a chance to review the assessment before publishing it.

In this case I can't insert a pointer at all. I have no idea what the
published assessment ID will be. I could certainly publish the test myself
as part of the copy and put in a reference to the published copy. Of course
that assumes that there is still a corresponding core assessment, and it has
the same name as the published assessment. That's not always true. SHould I
try to publish something?

Mneme is easier. It has only one type of assessment. To publish something
you just change a flag. Should I put in a pointer to the assessment in the
new site, but leave it unpublished (and thus nonfunctional)?

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