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Reminders in Exercises

Page Overview

1 Initial Problem
2 Conceptual Summary
3 User Interface Modifications
- 3.1 List of Affected Views
- 3.2 User Interface Details
- 3.3 New User Interface Concepts
4 Technical Information
5 Contact
6 Funding
7 Discussion
8 Implementation

1 Initial Problem

While the exercise creates calendar appointments for deadlines of assigments in exercise.

However users are not reminded of their assigments or required feedbacks.

2 Conceptual Summary

Similar to the survey participants should be reminded of things to be done. Reminders are mails sent to the target group. In the assignment reminders can be activated separately:

'Remind users to submit' sends a mail to all members of parent group or course nudging them to complete and submit the assignment
'Remind users to give feedback' ' sends a mail to all participants who submitted an assignment and nudges them to compelte the feedback
'Remind tutors to grade submissions' sends a mail to all users with 'Edit Settings' permission

Reminders are set using relative dates: x days before the deadline or x days after the deadline.

Users that completed their job so not receive reminders anymore.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

Exercise > Assignment > Settings tab
Exercise > Assignment > Peerfeedback tab

3.2 User Interface Details

The form gets the new reminder option.
Additionally the pre-extisting optiosn get more visual structure thorugh headlines and re-ordering.

Text der Mails

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

none

4 Technical Information

No issues. We will implement this in a cron job.

5 Contact

Author of the Request: Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]
Maintainer: Killing, Alexander [alex]
Implementation of the feature is done by: {The maintainer must add the name of the implementing developer.}

6 Funding

If you are interest in funding this feature, please add your name and institution to this list.

7 Discussion

Killing, Alexander [alex], 19 Oct 2017: I support the idea.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 04 DEC 2017: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4. Please give a short information about the mail template and how it is used.

Killing, Alexander [alex], 5 Apr 2018: @JF

How to determine the tutors that will get the "grade remindert". Should the "E-Mail Notification on Submissions" be re-used and generalized here or should we introduce an additional checkbox here?
Should we use one email template context for all of the reminders or separate template contexts for each reminder?

Hesse, Joel [Joel_Hesse] Such kind of a feature we would appreciate for courses. Is it possible to adapt / implement this feature in a more global and flexible context like a course which could contain a excercise, too? Do you need to implement this feature for each repository element type each by each? :-)

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 09 APR 2018 : We discussed the issues mentioned by Alexander and decided:

Only one setting should be used to notify about submissions and gradings (we assume that always the same persons receive these notifications).
We prefer three different context for the mail templates (reminder for submission, reminder for grading, reminder for peer review).