Comment 16 for bug 548021

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Aaron Wells (u-aaronw) wrote :

Hi Shane,

Ah, I think you've hit the nail on the head! Blind evaluation is indeed quite a compelling reason to allow pages without an author line.

Now we could work this in as a setting into the Mahara assessment system and extend it to be supported by the Moodle plugin as well. But there would still be value in just making it a setting on arbitrary pages, for if you were doing ad-hoc page evaluation outside of these systems. Like, having the students print out their pages and shuffling them up and handing them back out to each other.

Hm, okay, I think the blind evaluation use-case indeed justifies having this functionality. So we should keep it, but make the following changes:

1. Add a config option to disable anonymous pages, and have the feature turned off by default.

2. When the author line is hidden, put a notice in its place that says "(Author's name hidden)" with another copy of the "Flag objectionable content" button next to it. This would prevent the phishing problem by making it obvious it's not just a system page.

3. And admins & staff should be able to see the page author's name. I think for an admin/staff, it should show "(Author's name hidden)", and have a button next to it that says "Show", which then displays the author's name. That way if a teacher wants to do blind evaluations themselves, they'd be able to. (And perhaps an option to send a notification to the user if a staff/admin clicks that button, like we do for when a staff/admin masquerades as a user.)