[samigo-team] Question about "in progress" indicator

[Jim Mezzanotte]

Hi Karen,

Thanks--that's exactly the behavior I saw.

Best,
Jim Mezzanotte
rSmart

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Karen Tsao <ktsao at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> "in progress" not zero means there are assessments got started but not
> submitted yet. That is, once a student clicks "Begin Assessment", the "in
> progress" count will be increased by one. That count will remain like that
> until he/she submits the assessment. Do you see this behavior during your
> testing?
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Jim Mezzanotte <jmezzanotte at rsmart.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Samigo team,
>>
>> We've gotten reports from instructors that "in progress" is not
>> displaying accurately for published/active assessments. The use case
>> is that an instructor wants to change a published assessment, but
>> first tries to confirm that no students are currently taking the
>> assessment. The instructor sees zero for "in progress" and does the
>> edit, and then students subsequently report they were taking the
>> assessment.
>>
>> I'm still waiting to get more detailed information from an instructor,
>> but in the meantime I'm trying to confirm how "in progress" gets
>> triggered. From my testing, it only gets triggered when a student
>> clicks the "Begin Assessment" button (the "in progress" tally is
>> increased by one) or when a student submits the assessment (the "in
>> progress" tally decreases by one). It doesn't get triggered by a
>> student saving/exiting an assessment.
>>
>> So it seems one potential cause of confusion/inaccuracy is if
>> instructors believe "in progress" is an indicator of real-time
>> activity: when a student saves/exits the assessment, the "in progress"
>> tally doesn't change, regardless of whether the student then returns
>> to the assessment and begins working on it again. But this wouldn't
>> explain why an instructor would see zero for "in progress" when some
>> students were taking the assessment.
>>
>> Thanks in advance if anyone can shed some more light on this, or share
>> a similar issue.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jim Mezzanotte
>> rSmart
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