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

[Jeff H. <jj...@vi...>]

All,

I'm not sure if I've ever posted to this list.  Anyway, I can't speak to 
how hard it would be to implement, but a web-based interface for setting 
options would be a nice addition.  As John points out, it would make the 
system much more usable for a wider audience.  If we start with course.conf 
(as Mike suggests), then this should make things easier on those of us 
administering the system for lots of less-than-technically-adept 
instructors.

Best regards,
Jeff

--On Friday, September 16, 2005 1:13 PM -0700 John Jones <jj...@as...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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