[Using Sakai] Changing System Wide Test and Quiz Defaults

[Karen Tsao]

We will fix this in 2.7. There are patches provided by John (rSmart) and Sam
(Longsighte). Please see SAK-15893 for details.

Thanks,
Karen

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Josh Baron <Josh.Baron at marist.edu> wrote:

>
> Ah, yes, we have encountered this problem (we were running 2.5.3 at the
> time).  We did get a patch from rSmart, our support vendor, that addressed
> the problem but I'm not sure if that patch made it into future Sakai
> releases so it may still be an issue in 2.6.
>
> I'm copying Earle Nietzel, our IT staff member who supports Sakai here, as
> he should be able to provide details on the patch.
>
> FYI, Josh
>
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> Joshua Baron
> Director, Academic Technology and eLearning
> Marist College
> Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
> (845) 575-3623 (work)
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>
>  From: John Ansorge <ansorgej at ohsu.edu> To:  Cc: Sakai <
> sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Date: 10/01/2009 04:17 PM Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Changing System Wide
> Test and Quiz Defaults
>  Sent by: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Josh is 100% right, but with one caveat.  If you use the "Quick Create"
> feature in the Tests and Quizzes tool, I believe it will not inherit the
> default settings from the "Default Assessment Type".  I think the settings
> when you use "Quick Create" are hard coded into that feature.  To change
> them you'd have to edit the Java source code and redeploy the tool.
>
> John
>
> Josh Baron wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> If I'm understanding the question correctly, the process is even easier.
>  If you go into any course site as a system admin and go to Test & Quizzes
> tool you can click on the "assessment type" link at the top of the screen.
> One of the types listed with be the "default" type.  If you go into that you
> can change the default settings globally for all sites (just be careful as
> the change you make will be changed for everyone in the system once you hit
> update).
>
> FYI, josh
>
> -----------------------------
> Joshua Baron
> Director, Academic Technology and eLearning
> Marist College
> Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
> (845) 575-3623 (work)
> Twitter: JoshBaron
>
>   From: David McPherson *<dmcphers at vt.edu>* <dmcphers at vt.edu>  To: Sakai *
> <sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>* <sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Date: 10/01/2009 03:50 PM  Subject: [Using Sakai] Changing System Wide
> Test and Quiz Defaults  Sent by: *
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>  ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We have the desire to change the default settings for a few of the
> options in Test and Quizzes.  Does anyone know how you go about doing
> that?  Is it a database change or a code change or a properties file
> change?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave McPherson
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