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Portfolio: Declaration of Authorship

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

It is already possible to include a signature field in the PDF generation of a portfolio. Additionally we need a "Declaraction of Authorship" text being included to be able to use the portfolio PDF as an official document.

2 Conceptual Summary

Portfolios are considered exam written exams.
Mandatory for this is a so-called "Declaration of Authorship".
This is the same declaration in an institution and should be ready for the portfolio printout.

Example in German:
"Selbstständigkeitserklärung:
Hiermit versichere ich, dass ich die schriftliche Hausarbeit selbstständig verfasst und keine anderen als die angegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmittel benutzt habe. Die Stellen meiner Arbeit, die dem Wortlaut oder dem Sinne nach anderen Werken und Quellen, einschließlich Quellen aus dem Internet, entnommen sind, habe ich in jedem Fall unter Angabe der Quelle deutlich als Entlehnung kenntlich gemacht. Dasselbe gilt sinngemäß für Tabellen, Karten und Abbildungen." (Quelle: https://www.bzl.uni-bonn.de/dokumente/praxiselemente/selbststaendigkeitserklaerung.pdf)

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

Administration > Portfolio > New subtab "Declaration of Authorship"
Personal Desktop > Porfolios > Edit Porfolio > PDF
PDF Generation of Porfolio

3.2 User Interface Details

Administration > Portfolio > New subtab "Declaration of Authorship"

Textarea input per activated language

Personal Desktop > Porfolios > Edit Porfolio > PDF, Additional Checkbox

Checkbox "Declaration of Authorship" (on top of signature checkbox)

PDF Generation of Porfolio

The text of the declaration appears on top of the signature field.

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

No.

4 Technical Information

No technical issues.

5 Contact

Author of the Request: Killing, Alexander [alex], Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
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.

Technische Hochschule OWL

7 Discussion

Killing, Alexander [alex], 18 Apr 2018: I support the idea.

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], May 01, 2018 : A mockup at least for the new subtab "Declaration of Authorship" would be highly appreciated. If I understand the request correctly, no editor is offered for the textarea and no formatting is supported, right? One request of changing concept concerns the translation handling. Instead of offering a text input for every activated language (as we have done unfortunately in the past) I would like to go a new way with this feature and offer only text inputs for different text versions and a selector for which of the activated languages this text is assigned to. Such legal texts are often not translated to every supported language. Effect is that you copy the same text into every textarea - which is pure nonsense.

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 07 May 2018 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for 5.4 with the following changes:

No TinyMCE for the text input of the declarations. Just simple text.
If an activated language has an empty text area, the default language is always used.
If the text areas for a user's language and the default language are both empty, no option to activate the declaration is offered for a user.