[samigo-team] 2 Open Issues with SAMigo 2.9

[Sam Ottenhoff]

*1. Email *I'm not a big fan of replacing the email feature with a mailto
link as I think it non-standard behavior for Sakai. One of the nice
side-effects of having Sakai send out all email is that all email can be
tracked. For example, if a student claims to never have received a
confirmation message from Sakai, the server admins can look in the Sakai
event logs and then in the university's mail logs to either track the error
or prove the email was successfully sent. Moving this functionality to the
instructor's desktop (or webmail) setup removes this ability.

That said, we have our hands full with several other patches, and if other
institutions are not offering to work on this functionality, then I think
the mailto workaround is better than the existing broken functionality. I
don't think repairing the existing functionality would be that difficult if
there is a new developer from another institution lurking on this thread.
Basically, it looks like the existing functionality depends on a phantom
submission from an onClick handler. This functionality could be rewritten to
pass over the required information in GET variables instead.  Any takers?
 If not, I vote for the mailto solution.

*2. Sorting* Yes, we are willing to work on this functionality. Many
non-developers at the conference were wondering how to make a contribution
to the Samigo project. Providing a spec with a couple of simple mockups
would be a great contribution.  We will submit a patch based on the spec.

--Sam



On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jacqueline Mai Krueger
<jamai at stanford.edu>wrote:

> **
> Hi SAMigo team,,
>
> There are 2 open issues with SAMigo 2.9 that I'd like to get community
> input on:
>
> 1. *Problems with SAMigo email feature*: The SAMigo email feature,
> available on the grading pages (Total Scores, Submission Status,
> Questions),allows the grader to email a student with feedback/comments
> during grading. There have been reports from the community that the feature
> is not compatible with certain web browsers (SAM-1130). Furthermore, there
> have been reports that the email feature sends feedback to the wrong person
> (SAM-1249)
> Stanford has local fix of using 'mailto" that's been committed to Sakai
> trunk but not yet a part of SAMigo 2.9. 'mailto' will work with desktop as
> well as web-based email in terms of launching the compose window and
> auto-populate the To, From, and Subject fields. We haven't tested what
> happens when a user uses a computer that's not theirs and their preferred
> email client is web-based. However, I would tend to think that using a
> computer other one's own to do grading is rare/edge case. Does the community
> have any objection to making the "mailto" fix a part of SAMigo 2.9? Does
> anyone have an alternative solution?
>
> 2. *Sorting questions in question pools*: SAM-1198
> Alpha sorting and sorting questions by type are supported although based on
> the JIRA description, there seems to be a desire for more ways to sort than
> what's currently supported. Stanford has not had a chance to spec out
> solution. Any takers? Longsight is willing to implement the solution.
>  Thanks,
> Jackie
>
>
> --
> Jacqueline Mai Krueger
> User Experience Specialist
> Academic Computing Services - CourseWork
> Stanford University
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