Export of Course folder structure with content
Posted by Olaf Normann on Oct 13, 2009 01:32 AM PDT
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Several users (teachers) in our school miss the possibility to export the complete folder structure for a given Course.
The only way to export anything from it's learning by now, is this IMS-format, which has a very specific usage.
We suggest a new "Operation" (see attached screen shot) to be implemented. It could f.i. be called "Export to fileystem", or "Export to local machine" or the like.
When this operation is chosen by the user, a "Choose file" dialog box could appear, letting user select where on the local filesystem (or mounted network disks) he/she want the structure to be copied.
All necessary folders should then be created in order to reflect the folder hierarcy in the Course in it's learning.
It should be considered if this functionality should be limited to "owners" of the Course, i. e. teachers (and users with higher ranking)
The Export function should also be availible in Projects.
Olaf

Ability to send message to selected users from within a Course
Posted by Olaf Normann on Oct 16, 2009 06:36 AM PDT
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Several teachers miss the ability to send message to selected users, when the teacher working on their Course. For example, sometimes only a selected group of students need to be notified for something regarding the course. Or, perhaps only teachers and the like need some information.
Have a look at the attached screen shot.
It would be very efficient if one could simply filter out the group of persons, by way of selecting Students in the Profile drop down box.
And then select some of the students by clicking on the Check box on the left for each student i question. Much like when removing users from the Course.

Test 2.0: Ability to use greek characters (and other special characters)
Posted by Olaf Normann on Nov 13, 2009 05:45 AM PST
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There seems to be no possibility to enter Greek characters (like alfa, beta, gamma etc) in it's learning, specifically Test 2.0.
It's very annoying. Use of Greek characters is very common in several subjects, like Physics and Electrical Engineering.
There seems to be a bugs in Test 2.0 as well, if you get your HTML code messed up, you are really in trouble...
Could you please do something with this? As it is now, you have to create a new Test and import all the questions. And even then, you are not really sure if it will work…
-Olaf
New question type in Test 2.0: Questions with numeric answers within a range
Posted by Olaf Normann on Nov 13, 2009 05:49 AM PST
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We miss the ability to enter questions that has numeric answers like, "What is the distance between Oslo and Trondheim?" In many cases the correct answer is not a specific value, but within a range of values. In the example above, the correct range could f. ex. be between 480 - 520 km (or whatever the correct range should be)...
It would be very nice if the question type could handle units as well. Have a look at the attached figure. When the value range are added, you select correct Unit-prefix and then the Unit. In the given example, the Prefix is "k" (kilo) and Unit is "m" (metre), i.e. "km".
In this way the student can choose to answer in another unit, for example the Norwegian unit "Mil" (10^4 meters). It's learning would then translate the correct answer range to 48 - 52 mil.
To have this kind of question type would greatly improve the functionality of Test 2.0 in many subjects, like Physics, Mathematics, Electrical engineering, Chemistry, Geography etc etc.
The unit-prefixes could be editable in Administration->Edit global settings or the like.
-Olaf
