[Using Sakai] Downloading all student submissions

[Marilyn Dispensa]

There have been people at our institution who want to just download all Assignment attachments and not all the folders.    I just had someone today with a similar issue - they had 20-30 optional assignments. I had them click on the "Grade Report".  If you download the spreadsheet it will tell you, for each assignment, which users submitted so you could then go to the Assignment and download each one one by one. For short, inline responses, I have also had the request  to be able to have a view with all the responses in one view, with the ability to grade.

Since I think changing Assignments tool would probably take substantial coding efforts, perhaps the better solution would be to use the Student DROPBOX.  It tells you when there is a new item and then you can download only those document with webdav or via the web interface.

Marilyn


From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth Litwak
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 3:18 PM
To: sakai-user
Subject: [Using Sakai] Downloading all student submissions

I have an assignment in my course that deals with interpreting primary texts.  Students need to choose two of these assignments to do over the course of the semester.  There is an assignment due each week, so any given week I might get two or five or eight papers uploaded.  I've tried to download "all student submissions (attachments) but the result is not very helpful.  Instead of getting five papers, as would be appropriate for this week, Sakai creates file folders for every single student, whether the student has uploaded an assignment or not.  I don't want to have to search through those to figure out which of them has a paper in it.
    In addition, this process breaks because if the student has a long file name, and Sakai generates a long directory path, Windows won't allow that paper to be downloaded because the path is too long.
   Is there any way around these two problems?  Thanks.
Ken



Kenneth D. Litwak, Ph.D.
Azusa Pacific University
680 E. Alosta Ave.
Azusa, CA 91702
626-815-6000 x3148
klitwak at apu.edu<mailto:klitwak at apu.edu>
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