Sakai v2.5 Tools (Simple Functionallity Tests)
These are simple tests (no detailed instructions) for new features. Try them out on the test server when test releases are completed. Tests are described in bold dark blue. If you check out these new features and please report any problems by email and note the feature/Jira you are reporting on in case we need to submit a Jira fo the Foundation.
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- Scheduled release (i.e. a future posting date) and retract dates for announcements SAK-8777
- Added support for show/hide similar to Resources tool; expands on and replaces previous draft functionality. SAK-8637
- Create an announcement scheduled for a near-future release and end date/time. Change the Email Notification to High. Verify it is not visible to others until the release date/time and that it is no longer visible after the end date/time. Ask other team members to email you when they receive the email notification.
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- Add week/month view option (SAK-8399)
- Use color-coding for event types (SAK-5073) (requires sakai.properties settings)
- Small I18N issue (SAK-8541)
- Show more event info (attachments link to schedule event - SAK-8398)
- Quartz job to add the Calendar Summary to existing sites.
QA for Schedule/Calendar
- Access the Schedule tool in your course. Add several events - individual, repeating, various types, with an attachment - all during June and July 2007.
- Return to Home for your course. Select Options in the Calendar frame. Set some event types to High and some to Low. Set colors for these priorities. Change your calendar setting to weekly instead of monthly.
- Verify that your days with events are set to the highest priority color for the events that day. Verify that you can see events by the week.
- Add sakaistu1 into your course (if not already added). Log in via xlogin URL as sakaistu1. Select Schedule from My Workspace and verify you can see events for your course (and others!) Verify that you can select events to see more details, sort by week or month, and open or download attachments from events.
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- Print-friendly view. (SAK-8548)
- Create some syllabus items. View, select Printer icon, and print to see if the items fit well on a printed page.
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- Added email functionality to allow instructors to email invididual sudents from 'Scores' screens, SAK-7094
- Allow instructors to give individual students permission to re-take the assessment SAK-7093
- A disable/enable toggle of all FCK Editors in Authoring screen. SAK-5904
- Random questions and multiple attempts: added flavor of randomization selection for random parts. SAK-7696 - see specific test above.
- Allow Samigo contents to be imported from other Sakai Sites using the Site Info tool's 'Import From Site' link. SAK-7378
- Allow instructors to change feedback settings after assessments are published. SAK-3943
- Change the 'copy' function in question pool to be a deep copy, rather than a link. SAK-3526
- Implemented IMS content packaging to allow import/export of assessments with attachments SAK-5419
- Allow importing of Samigo assessments to Question Pool. SAK-6993
- Importing simple text formatted assessments to Samigo using Word-2-QTI converter. SAK-8642
QA for Tests & Quizzes
- Create and release a quiz with another tester as the student. After the 'student' has taken your quiz, send him/her and email from the Scores screen. = 7094
- Create and release a quiz with only 1 submission allowed. After the 'student' has taken your quiz, go to the Scores -->Submission Status screen, find the student and select Allow Retake?. Verify the student can retake your quiz. =7903
- Author a quiz and try toggling the editors off and on. =5094
- Requires Instructor access to 2 or more sites. Create quizzes in one site. Log into a second site and select Site Info --> Import from Site --> and select 1 or more sites. Check Tests & Quizzes. Verify that your quizzes were copied successfully to the second site. = 7378
- Create a quiz and publish it with a specific feedback. Take the quiz as a student and verify the feedback setting. Now, as Instructor, change the feedback setting. Take the quiz as a different student and verify the new feedback setting. = 3943
- Create a simple question pool. Copy the question pool. Edit a question in the copied pool. Verify that the original question in the first pool is unchanged - i.e., the second pool of questions are truely truly copies not linked to the originals. = 3526
- Create a simple quiz and include 1-3 questions with attachments. Export the quiz using the "Content Packaging" choice. Import the quiz AS AN ASSESSMENT (note - does not work for question pools). Import the quiz into another site and verify that the attachments are imported. = 5419
- Run through the import of a single-section assessment as a question pool one more time to verify that it works in the public release.
- When we implement this tool, you will see a Quick Create button next to the Create option in Samigo. Try out this feature as if you were an instructor seeing it for the first time. there already is a quick create button. it's cumbersome and sometimes case specific but it is do-able.
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