The following table represents a first pass (still in progress) at determining which functionality is missing from Assignments 2, when compared with functionality in Assignments.
Comparisons have been done primarily against the designs found at https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/assignment2/branches/design_iteration_3-x/A2.pdf .
| Assignments feature/element/activity | Equivalent feature/element/activity in Assignments 2 | Comments/Questions | Needs of Individual Institutions |
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| Duplicate | Unintentionally left out of the design for Assignments 2. Will work on getting this back into the next iteration of the design. |
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| Linking to Matrices tool |
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| Ability for TA to preview assignment without having to visit the View Student's Submission screen. |
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| Ability for instructor to specify the format of notifications (None, One email per submission, One email per day, per assignment, summarizing all submissions) |
In Assignments 2, we are planning to put this functionality in the hands of the user in the form of a personal preference. At the assignment level, the only setting the instructor will be able to set is whether or not notifications are sent. Then in a separate settings screen, each individual user will have the opportunity to decide whether or not they want to receive a notification and in what format they want to receive the notifications. They may also decide who they will receive notifications from (all participants or specified groups) as long as they have permission to view the participants submissions. |
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| Use curly braces to insert red text when providing feedback. |
We left this functionality out intentionally because we received feedback from instructors that this was confusing and frustrating for them. We are planning to implement functionality in a future release, that will automatically set the instructor's comments to red upon typing in the WYSIWYG editor. |
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| Ability for instructor to sort list of assignments by Title, Status, Open, Due, In/New |
We left this functionality out intentionally because we implemented functionality to allow the instructor to reorder their assignments from the assignment list screen. We have received several complaints, however, about this missing functionality and we are planning to re-implement this functionality in a future release. |
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| Ability for student to sort assignment list by title, due date, open date, status, and audience. | |||
| Bulk Upload |
We left this functionality out intentionally because we wanted to simplify the upload process. Instructors now have the ability to upload only grades and comments. We have received several complaints, however, about this missing functionality and we are planning to re-implement this functionality in a future release. |
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| Direct link from Announcements/Calendar to Assignments 2 |
In order to keep the Announcements and Calendar code from depending on Assignments 2, we need to come up with a new strategy to make a direct link from Announcements and Calendar to Assignments 2 that includes staying in the same window (if possible) and changing left nav to point to Assignments 2 on click. |