[Using Sakai] sakai-user Digest, Vol 59, Issue 1

[Regan, Alan]

Dear Gregory and Marshall,

What version of Sakai are you running?  In your version of Lessons, do you see the "Add Assignment" option?  This feature in Lessons allows you to easily add a link to any assignment in the Assignments tool.  You can keep clicking "Add Assignment" to add more links to assignments to list all of the assignments on one page.  (I created a mockup for a professor to demonstrate how to use conditional release to offer "solutions" to completed assignments.  Basically, I "Add Assignment" for the first assignment then "Add Resource" to an HTML page or media file.  I listed all the assignments and solutions one after the other on the same lessons page.  I made each assignment "required" and set conditional release on each link to the solutions to require completion of the prior assignment.  The requirement tree is linear, so a student must complete each assignment in order to see the relevant solutions.  That is, if a student completes assignment 3, the solution for assignment 3 won't be available until the student completes both assignment 1 and assignment 2.)

If you are asking for a way to do this in an HTML block with "Add Text" and the rich text editor, this feature will be available by default in Sakai 10.  I believe you can install the feature in earlier versions of Sakai, but I don't know the details.

I encourage you to explore the Sakai 2.9 and Sakai 10 QA servers to see the available features in Lessons.  Many of these servers are routinely re-built (some daily, some every 4 hours).

Sakai 2.9 QA servers (I usually use QA3):
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/QA/QA+Servers+-+Sakai+2.9

Sakai 10 QA servers (I usually use the Longsight server):
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/QA/QA+Servers+-+Sakai+10

If it would help, I could create a quick screencast of the options sometime tomorrow.

Else, I could see the value in a feature like adding a Table of Contents in MS Word but for assignments, to quickly add a bulleted list on a Lessons page with links to all site assignments (with a refresh button to allow an instructor to quickly refresh the links if new assignments are added or modified).  It would save adding assignments one at a time, but I don't know how complicated that would be to implement.  I could see the same for Tests & Quizzes or Forums, too.

Anyway, I hope something here helps!

-- Alan



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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:23:05 -0800
From: Marshall Feldman <marsh at uri.edu>
Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Assignment URLs in a lessons page?
To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
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I'm not sure if what I do is what you mean by "manually browsing
around," but here's the kludge I use. At the bottom of the Lessons page
in question, I put an html block with a dashed line and text saying to
ignore everything below here. Then under the line I put any
user-unfriendly Lessons blocks I need. Back above the line, I compose my
HTML pages how I want them. When I need a link to the user-unfriendly
stuff, I just right-click, copy the link, and put it in the nicely
formatted stuff above the line.

In some cases, I'm even able to hide a lessons page, insert all the
blocks on it that want, copy a URL, and then go to unhidden pages and
insert the link wherever I need it.

Hope this helps. Even more, I hope Lessons fixes this obvious need.


On 12/30/13 [Dec 30, 13] 12:00 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Assignment URLs in a lessons page?

Is there any way to have a single page Lessons block, and include links to assignments in it?

Having to  have individual blocks for every item in every assignment seems too piecemeal to me; and I typically have a single document with a list of assignments, readings, descriptions, etc.

I understand that if one wanted to have individual pages for every lesson that might be also a reasonable structure, but I prefer to have the entire wholeness of the flow in one place.

I can insert URLs for resources, but not for assignments associated with a lesson that I can see.

I'd be happy to just have this as a html page under another tab instead of Lessons, but fined the same problem, html (easily) cannot link to assignments.

[Yes, I've seen before that I can manually browse around and copy URLs of assignment pages as a fallback.]



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