[Using Sakai] Question about Assignments > Return to Student

[Zhen Qian]

Nicola:

It does look like that adding attachment prevents releasing of assignment
grads.

I will make a jira for it.

Thanks,

- Zhen

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:50:23 -0700, Nicola Monat-Jacobs
<nicola at longsight.com> wrote:
> I'm on QA2-US, and here's the workflow I followed -
> 
> - Create a new course site, with two users, one instructor, one student.
> - As instructor, create a new assignment, with 100 points possible. Add
> assignment to gradebook.
> - Grade the assignment
> - grade the student user
> - Enter 'Instructor Summary Comments' and upload a file in response. Give
> student grade, allow resubmission, and 'Return Assignment to Student'
> - See a note that grade and comments are saved. Return to list.
> - See that Release column is not checked. and the status is 'graded'.
> - login as student, do not see that instructor feedback has been
released.
> 
> I notice that if I don't attach a file in my instructor response, then
the
> grade does get released, and student can see my comments and re-submit.
So
> perhaps the file upload is causing a problem?
> 
> Nicola
> 
> On Mar 22, 2010, at  9:34 AM, Zhen Qian wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Nicola:
>> 
>> "Return Assignment to Student" should release the grading information to
>> this student, independent of grading processes for other students. I
>> tested
>> QA3(sakai-2.7.0-b04), and it works the way as described. What
>> server/site/assignment were you testing on?
>> 
>> The grading process should be the same whether the submission object is
>> empty or not.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> - Zhen
>> 
>> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:20:42 -0700, Nicola Monat-Jacobs
>> <nicola at longsight.com> wrote:
>>> Hi -
>>> 
>>> I have a question about how the 'Return to Student' functionality is
>>> supposed to work in Assignments. If an instructor clicks that button,
>>> rather than 'Save' should the grade and feedback be released to just
>>> that
>>> one student? Or must the student wait until the Instructor releases
>>> everyone's grades? I had thought that Return to Student would also
>> release
>>> the grade for that student, but in testing on the QA servers, it
doesn't
>>> look like it works that way anymore.
>>> 
>>> Just to complicate matters more, this particular scenario has the
>>> student
>>> submitting their work via email, not through Sakai, and the instructor
>>> attempting to use the 'Grade' functionality of the Assignments tool to
>> send
>>> feedback back to her. So, there's no original submission in the system
-
>>> which may complicate things.
>>> 
>>> Let me know if I should take this query to the dev list instead.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nicola Monat-Jacobs
>>> 
>>> 
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