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Re: [WWdevel] feedback e-mail subject line
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From: Arnold P. <ap...@ma...> - 2005-09-16 14:59:20
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At 10:02 AM 9/16/2005, P Gavin LaRose wrote:
Hi,
This sounds like a good idea and a number of people have asked for
something along these lines.
Another method of doing this would be to have
$mail{feedbackRecipients} be a ref to a user defined procedure which
takes as parameters e.g. [CourseName] [SectionNum] [RecitationNum]
[User Name] [setNum] [probNum] and outputs a ref to an array of
email addresses. If we do this, the procedure should also allow the
cc field to be filled in (e.g. send email to a TA with a cc to a
prof). Also the procedure could generate a subject line (say with a
default subject line as we do now with the addition of [section]
[recitation] if the generated subject line is null). The default
procedure would do just what we do now except that I would add
[section] [recitation] to the subject line.
This would be more flexible, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble
--- how many people would make use of it. If we do it, we should
provide a few standard examples (e.g. email goes to prof a or b
depending on course/section). Just doing what Gavin suggests would
satisfy most users.
Arnie
>Hi all,
>
>I'd like opinions on the desirability of the following, and, if it's
>desirable, suggestions for a better way of doing it.
>
>Currently the WeBWorK system generates feedback e-mails with the subject line
>WeBWorK feedback from [coursename]: [User Name] set [setNum]/prob [probNum]
>
>We always have some big courses where there are multiple sections of
>the course which have different instructors or TAs. It would be
>convenient for those courses to have the subject line to be something like
>
>WeBWorK feedback [CourseName] ([SectionNum]-[RecitationNum]): [User
>Name] set [setNum]/prob [probNum]
>
>so that instructors could filter their incoming WeBWorK feedback
>e-mail to isolate those from students in their section(s).
>
>In the past I've done this by just hacking the code in Feedback.pm
>to accomplish this, but it seems it might be better to have a
>setting in global.conf or course.conf that allows the customization
>of the feedback subject line. e.g., using some sort of format
>characters---say,
> %c = course name
> %u = user name
> %s = set number
> %p = problem number
> %x = section number
> %r = recitation number
>then the default subject line could be
> $mail{subjectLine} = 'WeBWorK feedback from %c: %u set %s/prob %p';
>and in course.conf it could be reset, if desirable, to something else (for me,
> $mail{subjectLine} = 'WeBWorK feedback %c (%x-%r): %u set %s/prob %p';
>).
>
>This would require adding the $mail{subjectLine} value to
>global.conf file, and doing some substitutions on that in Feedback.pm.
>
>Does this seem like a good idea? If so, is there a better way of doing it?
>
>(The other option to resolve my problem would be to associate
>instructors in a course with sections within the course, thereby
>allowing e-mail to be directed to them, rather than to all
>instructors of the course. Would this be better or worse than the above?)
>
>Thanks,
>Gavin
>
>--
>P. Gavin LaRose, Ph.D. Program Manager (Instructional Tech.)
>Math Dept., University of Michigan
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