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Re: [WWdevel] show saved answers and practice users
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From: Arnold P. <ap...@ma...> - 2005-08-24 19:38:12
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<html> <body> At 01:30 PM 8/24/2005, John Jones wrote:<br><br> After a number of comments on showOldAnswers in WW1, we arrived at the default implementation (if memory serves me correctly) of (1) not showing old answers for practice users and (2) for regular users <br> showing old answers before the due date but not after (and we may have used the answer date, not the due date). The reason was that after the due date, students submitting answers were probably practicing for an exam, etc and having the answers already filled in tended to negate the exercise. In all cases, the user could change the showOldAnswers option. I think this worked pretty well and would be reasonable to reproduce in WW2 if it can be done cleanly. I don't think it's a critical issue but someone new to WW logging in as a practice user would certainly be confused by seeing the answers already filled in.<br><br> Arnie<br><br> <br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi,<br> <br> A question came up on the discussion board. I am not entirely sure of what people are expecting, but one thing seems to be a feature from ww 1.x where by default, practice users did not have the last submitted answer shown.<br><br> Should we put this in ww 2? I think it would be relatively easy to do: <ul> <li>add a permission setting in global.conf of can_show_old_answers and set the default level to $student. <li>check for this permission when setting the value in Problem.pm. It is not quite parallel to the other items with the can/want/will system since it just refers to using the default value, but it can be handled in pre_header_initialize. </ul>While looking at it just now, I saw another bug in showOldAnswers (i.e., in addition to the one I just fixed in cvs). I'll wait to see what people want on this question before addressing it.<br><br> I don't have a strong preference, so what do you think about having a way to make practice users not see old answers by default?<br><br> John<br> </blockquote> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> <br> Prof. Arnold K. Pizer<br> Dept. of Mathematics<br> University of Rochester<br> Rochester, NY 14627<br> (585) 275-7767</body> </html> |
