Add Users to Exercise using course roles

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1 Initial Problem

In ILIAS-Exercises users are by default only listed under "Submissions and Grades", after they have handed in an assignment. Users that don't hand in anything don't show up in the list. But for teachers it is very important to know and see who didn't hand in the assignment, so the function "Add Users of Current Course" is used for almost every exercise.

The Problem: After clicking on the "Add Users of Current Course"-Button you get an unstructured list with all users of all course roles. So currently the lecturer has to check each user he wants to be added separateley - OR he/she can use the “Select All”-checkbox - and then has to uncheck all the users which are not students - this leads to a lot of clicks which could be avoided.

2 Conceptual Summary

Variant 1: This process could be made a lot easier if there was an option in the settings of the Exercise Object (not in the settings of an assigment) that  - if checked - would add all course members to all assignments within that Exercise Object by default - see mockup below.

Variant 2: This process could be streamlined if the selection would be designed according to the selection process of mail recipients after clicking on the "Mail to Members" - Button in the "Member Gallery View" of a course. After clicking "Add Users of Current Course" the lecturer should be able to select one ore more course roles - OR select different individual users - just like when he/she is sending a mail from within a course.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

Variant 1:
>Exercise >>Settings

Variant 2:
>Exercise >>Submission and Grades >>>Add Users From Current Course

3.2 User Interface Details

Mockup Variant 1:

Mockup Variant 2:
This mockup is based on the "Mail to members"-Screen. Basically you just need to change some text on the screen. The "Continue"-Button should be replaced by "Add". After clicking on that Add-Button the User should return to the "Submission and Grades" - Screen.

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

None

4 Technical Information

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5 Contact

6 Funding

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7 Discussion

I just found out, that an exercise only appears in the ToDo - block on a users dashboard, if he/she has been added to the exercise. This in my optionion is another good reason to implement this feature.

8 Implementation

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Test Cases

Approval

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