Erica Ackerman - 20-Jul-2007 13:11 It would also be good if the admin/instructor could lock a cell.

Erica Ackerman - 30-Jul-2007 09:54 Use case for ability to lock a matrix cell at an arbitrary point in the workflow: We have a situation where a professor writes what is supposed to be a very frank evaluation of the student's work. The student is not supposed to see this evaluation until after a conference between the student and his adviser. It would be useful for the professor to be able to lock the cell once he completes the evaluation, and for the adviser to be able to unlock the cell. For the future: Gonzalo Silverio has suggested that we really need a workflow API, where each possible step in a workflow is a sort of widget that the matrix owner can select at the time they design the matrix.

Sean Keesler - 31-Jul-2007 07:04 Another use case: Here at Syracuse we use the matrix a little differently. We never ask the students to "submit cells for evaluation confirmation". In fact, that part of the UI is commented out. Rather, students publish portfolio presentations from their matrix and evaluators use the Goal Aware Data point tool to record assessment data of the entire presentation.   Our matrix columns correspond to stages of our programs and one of the needs for assessment is to be able to compare the students' previous portfolio columns to the most recent one when assessing a student's portfolio. The assumption is that the previous cells are frozen in time, unchanged since the last evaluation. I do this now via some SQL magic, but having a means to "close the polls" on a column of matrix cells for an entire CIG by locking them would be great.

Lynn E. Ward - 31-Jul-2007 09:33 I think the point here is that each of us uses the matrix and wizard a little bit differently. The real power of OSP is its flexibility, the ability to let each of us create a customized portfolio experience to address the specific needs of an institution or program. Giving coordinators full control over the status of each page or cell provides more flexibility than we have today. If there are concerns about coordinators having the ability to change the status of a cell to locked or pending without first notifying students, perhaps it would be possible to incorporate an email notification feature. Then whenever a status change is made that is not part of the standard workflow, the student could be notified automatically or with a personalized message. Here at IU, evaluators tend to do their work at the end of the semester, or between semesters, when students are often un available. Today, if an evaluator makes an error, there is no way to set the cell status back to pending and correct the error without student intervention. In one case, we had an evaluator who accidentally set all cells back to ready several times (admittedly a user education problem), which then meant asking each student to resubmit several times. Students understandably became impatient with these requests. As the administrator of the site, the coordinator should be able to help instructors/evaluators out with these sorts of problems. Lynn

Chris Maurer - 22-Aug-2007 13:03 r34264 Giving the ability to change the status of a cell/wizard page to any status.

Megan May - 06-Feb-2008 11:59 Tasks for 2.5.0 have been completed. We're nearing the end of the QA cycle and A lot of general regression testing has been going on for the past few months - the changes have likely been reviewed via this method of testing