[Using Sakai] Two questions about the 'Assignments' tool, many thanks

[Gordon, Patricia (psg3a)]

Fawei,

We haven't yet reached a stage where we are worried about archiving past sites. We've been running Sakai for a few years and prefer to keep the previous semester sites available to instructors case a former student needs a reference or whatever - access the to these sites allows instructors to refresh their memory about student work.

We remind instructors/students how to hide sites each semester to make navigation/access to new semester sites easier.

So far, this hasn't presented any problems for us. Perhaps others on this list can advise on their archiving strategy/procedures?

Trisha

From: Fawei Geng [mailto:fawei.geng at oucs.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 12:39 PM
To: Gordon, Patricia (psg3a); sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: RE: [Using Sakai] Two questions about the 'Assignments' tool, many thanks

Dear Trisha,

Many thanks for your quick reply!

Re: Q1: you are right.  They are using the site from previous year. I have advised them to duplicate the site for the current cohort.  Although  this has solved the problem for assignments, they may end up having to mange more and more sites.  Do you archive sites when they are not being used  anymore?  Otherwise, it may become unmanageable.

Best wishes

Fawei

From: Gordon, Patricia (psg3a) [mailto:psg3a at eservices.virginia.edu]
Sent: 15 October 2010 16:14
To: Fawei Geng; sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: RE: [Using Sakai] Two questions about the 'Assignments' tool, many thanks

Hello Fawei,

A1. I don't see a way to hide past assignments, although if the Due date/Accept until date have passed, students won't be able to submit the assignments.

But, it sounds like your instructors may be using a previous semester courses for the current semester, yes? Creating a new course site each semester and re-using Assignments from the previous semester course site may be the way to go. Then all of the copied assignments will be in Draft mode (students can't see them) until the instructor edits an assignment to set new delivery dates and then posts the assignment to make it visible to students in the site.

A2. Workaround: An instructor can attach any type of file to an assignment using the Add Attachment button on the Assignment create/edit screen.

Hope this helps!
Trisha

Trisha Gordon
UVaCollab Project Lead and User Support Manager
https://collab.itc.virginia.edu
collab-support at virginia.edu<mailto:collab-support at virginia.edu>

Dept. of Information Technology and Communication
University of Virginia
PO Box 400198
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434.243.5465



From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Fawei Geng
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 10:43 AM
To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Using Sakai] Two questions about the 'Assignments' tool, many thanks

Hi there,

Just wonder if anyone could please share your experience of using the 'Assignments' tool with me.  I've got two questions:

Q1:  Although students cannot take the assignments, but they can still see the past assignments (i.e. the due date is 2009).  Is there any way to hide or achieve the assignments as the teachers do not want to remove them?

Q2:  One of the lecturers here wants to embed video file in Assignments.   The embed JW player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/) works perfectly well on the home page or a web page created in 'Resources' tool.  However, the same code I used does not work in 'Assignments' tool.   Did anybody embed the JW player (or any other player) in 'Assignments' successfully?  If you did, would you mind sharing the code with me?

Many thanks

Fawei
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