Re: [Fwd: Re: [WWdevel] feedback e-mail subject line]

[John J. <jj...@as...>]

Sam Hathaway wrote:

> On Sep 16, 2005, at 13:14, John Jones wrote:
>
>> The one request I have heard ...
>
>
> Ok, I've implemented some things based on these comments. First, the  
> feedback button will now not be shown if the current user does not  
> have submit_feedback permission. Second, Feedback now gets the list  
> of recipients before showing the feedback form, and if there are no  
> recipients, it will display the message "No feedback recipients are  
> listed for this course.". 

Thanks for doing this.  I hadn't remembered about the permission setting 
for submit_feedback.  Setting that in course.conf would do the trick.

But, this opens up another topic.  Since this is a high school course 
being hosted by ASU, I am reluctant to do very much tuning of the 
courses for people.  I could try to explain to the teachers how to get 
course.conf through the file manager and to make edits there, but that 
is pretty dangerous.  It is probably easy to make the course unusable at 
which point I would have to fix it for them anyway.

So, what do people think about having a web-based interface to setting 
webwork course/system options?  If done, the values of global.conf could 
be adjusted through the admin course, and other courses would deal with 
course.conf.  For making webwork friendly to a wider audience, this 
would be a big plus.  But, is this too big of an undertaking?

John