Re: [WWdevel] OpenWeBWorK-Devel Digest, Vol 8, Issue 3

[William H. W. <wh...@in...>]

Dear Mark,

At Indiana University (Bloomington), we have several large enrollment 
courses (enrollment > = 1900)
that are taught in 12-20+ sections.  Each such course is supervised by a 
faculty "course coordinator".
But we do not attempt to create a "super" WeBWorK course that combines
all sections, because of the inefficiencies that would create in running 
WeBWorK.  Instead, we
give each instructor her/his own WeBWorK site and then put the course 
coordinator
into each course with "teacher" privileges.  (Actually, we have created 
several
"super-teacher" permission roles, including one for "coordinators".)
This has the advantages of (i) giving each instructor her/his own gradebook,
(ii) giving each instructor flexibility in making  assignments (although
they are required to include the problems designated by the course 
coordinator),
and (iii) making the email arrangement you want a triviality.

If the primary reason for having a "super" WeBWorK site that includes
all sections is so that the course coordinator can view unified 
statistics and gradebook,
then that might be easier to accomplish by SQL retrievals using the MySQL
interface to the databases.  Alternatively, one could write Perl programs
that would use the WeBWorK software to access the databases and
generate the desired reports; the programs in   .../system/bin, for 
instance, wwsh,
can be used as models/starting points.

Sincerely,

Bill Wheeler

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> Hello all,
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> Several features have been requested from my users, and I wanted to make sure that they were not available and I had missed them before I start coding.  I am also open to any suggestions anyone may have about implementation.
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> Many sections of a course have been combined into a large course with one faculty member overseeing it.  However, all of the professors teaching a section using Webwork have professor accounts.  
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> The first change I need to make is the ability to for a reply from a student to only be sent to the overseeing faculty member, and a the professor in charge of a section.
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> The second one is the ability for a professor to see only their section of a course when they login.  This is a minor issues, since one can filter the students out, but it would be nice to set the default.
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> Thanks,
> Mark
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