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

[Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u)]

The way we have accomplished this at UVa is to have all entity references in html files (except references to Samigo and JForum entities) to be updated when sites are copied.  This gives our users granular control over the links they embed in html files as they copy their content using the Import from Site tool in Site Info.  (Duplicate Site does not do this.)  
 
We have also ported our solution into Lesson Builder and it works well as long as users do not use the Add Multimedia, Add Resource, Add Assignment and Add Forum tools in LB which we have disabled (via Property settings). They can, of course, access those entities through html.  We left LB's Add Quiz for two reasons:  We really liked LB's utilization of Samigo for sequencing pages, and second, we think requiring users to relink Samigo entities was not too much to ask. We certainly do not want to publish a quiz by default.  In fact, we also leave Assignments in Draft mode (though there, it's just a matter of publishing the assignment, not relinking). 
 
It's great news if you can fix LB so the tools we disabled could be copied with updated links.  We are ready to share any of our code to do this.  
 
Yitna


Yitna Firdyiwek, PhD
Faculty Consultatnt in Instructional Technology
Advanced Technology Group, ITS
University of Virginia
434.979.1124
ybf2u at virginia.edu
http://faculty.virginia.edu/firdyiwek 



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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Charles Hedrick
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:36 PM
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Subject: [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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