Anonymous Comments

1 Initial Problem

At the moment, comments always show who the author of a comment is. There are many sceanrios in which stundetns are required to comment on things anonymously (e.g. to esure more honest feedback). This is curetnly not possible.

2 Conceptual Summary

The comments service should be capable to handle and display both personalized and anonymous comments. Anonymous comments should be displayed just like forum entries that have been submitted without a pseudonym.

Socuh comment are not literally "anonymous" - they should simply be displayed as anonymous. The author of a comment should still be able to edit / delete the comment - that means that ILIAS has to know, who the author is.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

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3.2 User Interface Details

Panel that is used to display a single comment: instead of the letter avatar of the author of a comment, [AN] for anonymous should be shown. If asked to handle (display) a comment anonymously, the comment service should then substitute the name of the author with "anonymous".

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

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3.4 Accessibility Implications

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4 Technical Information

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5 Privacy

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6 Security

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7 Contact

• Author of the Request: Glaubitz, Marko [mglaubitz]
• Maintainer: Killing, Alexander [alex]
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8 Funding

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9 Discussion

10 Implementation

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