When single view / page is submitted to a group, the entie collection becomes accessible

[Kristina Hoeppner]

When you submit a page to a controlled group (no other access rights are given), the entire collection becomes visible. However, only the page that was submitted is locked.

As the teacher can see the entire collection, he may think that the other pages are also locked.I think, both students and teachers need to be made aware that.

The student could see a message along the line: You have submitted <title of the page>. As it is part of collection <collection title>, this collection becomes visible. However, you can continue editing the other pages in the collection.

The teacher should get a notice on the pages that have not been submitted but are visible because they are part of the collection that these pages are still editable, e.g.: This page has not been submitted and its content can change. It is visible because it is part of collection <collection title>.

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Testing this was sparked by http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=3679

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There is a wishlist item for submitting an entire collection: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/786389

[Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport)]

Hi Kristina,

We could possibly change this so only the submitted view is visible, and not the others (unless they are also submitted)

I think it would be about the same amount of work for limiting visibility and showing a note saying the view is still editable.

Cheers,

Hugh

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Thanks, Hugh. I posted a follow-up question in the forum.

[Fiona Thurn (fionat2oz)]

Tutors complained bitterly to me that their group view had hundreds of submitted pages to scroll through in order to view submissions.(Students were asked to submit all pages as we were finding some had edited access on single views in collections which messed up the submit one view to see the entire collection strategy.) The ability to view all views in a single collection while only submitting one was much better, but the ability to submit collections would be the best solution. Then it's clear to everyone exactly what's being submitted. For assignments collections are much more likely to be used than single views.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Submitting an entire collection was implemented in Mahara 1.6.