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

[Verity Allan]

Hi,

I can think of a couple of scenarios in which you might not want the due 
date of a Samigo test to display by default - one's user-oriented, the 
other's possibly more technical:

1) At our institution, Samigo assessments are primarily used for formative 
assessments, and aren't high stakes testing. Adding the due dates for 
these to the calendar might risk the cluttering effect you mention for 
Assignments. (This probably also goes for other institutions which may do 
a mix of high-stakes and informal testing with Samigo.)

2) Would there be any nasty behaviour if the Calendar/Schedule tool wasn't 
in the site? E.g. the box is ticked by default, but that Samigo throws a 
horrible error because it can't find the schedule tool to add a due date 
to it? (Hopefully the developers can sort this one out!)

But generally, this is a good feature to add to Samigo, making it more in 
line with Assignments, as I'm pretty sure students want to know when 
important tests are happening.

Regards,
Verity
CARET
University of Cambridge

> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:37:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Keli Sato Amann <kamann at stanford.edu>
> Subject: [samigo-team] Samigo-Schedule integration--due date to
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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
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