[samigo-team] Samigo-Schedule integration--due date to display by default?

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hello to the new community Samigo team,
I'm reviewing Longsight's welcome contribution of a schedule integration (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-1121). In short, the settings for available, due, and retract dates will have checkboxes that allow these dates to appear in the Schedule.

I'm making suggestions to the developer in the hopes that they might be implemented before 2.9. My question to you all is whether the due date checkbox should be checked by default. It seems that if one were to bother to set a due date for a quiz or test, that this would naturally be something one would want on the calendar now that the integration is available, so why not save them the click? I can't think of even an edge case as to why this shouldn't be displayed (and if there were an edge case, they could certainly uncheck it).

The only thing that gives me pause is that Assignments does require an active click on a checkbox to add an assignment to the calendar. However, I think that because Assignments also includes everyday readings, and you might not want to clutter the Calendar with things like that, just major graded assignments that have to be turned in.

The answer is pretty clear to me but since we have this list now, what do people think? Am I overlooking something, either from a user perspective or a performance perspective, that would lead us to require user to opt-in, rather than opt-out? Please respond by Monday.

Thanks,
Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University