Student publications tool 1.10.x: Feedback on work emails are sent to all teachers of a course

[jderriks]

Teachers complain that they get email from students in course groups that they are not tutor of.
This email is sent to all teachers of a course when a student adds a "feedback" comment to his uploaded work (through group Assignments)
And it looks like this email option cannot be switched off which can cause a lot of email traffic.

diff --git a/main/work/work.lib.php b/main/work/work.lib.php
index 043bcaf..b3b263b 100755
--- a/main/work/work.lib.php
+++ b/main/work/work.lib.php
if (api_is_allowed_to_edit()) {
@@ -3144,7 +3144,7 @@ function addWorkComment($courseInfo, $userId, $parentWork, $work, $data)
$courseInfo['code']
);
if (!empty($teachers)) {

•            $userIdListToSend = array_keys($teachers);
  

•    //        $userIdListToSend = array_keys($teachers);
       }
   } else {
       $teachers = SessionManager::getCoachesByCourseSession(
  

[jmontoyaa]

That was the idea of that feature.

[jderriks]

Then it is a well un-documented feature and a big surprise if a course has many teachers!
Enhancement: course option to switch email notifications for assignments (student work) off for that course (or per assignment).

[ywarnier]

Jan, how many teachers do you have in one single course? Wouldn't you be (somewhat wrongly) sharing a course between teachers instead of using sessions?
A normal course shouldn't have more than 3 teachers, in principle. One main teacher and two assistants, I can imagine, but more than that I'm not sure of the objective of having one single course shared between more teachers (except putting them one against the other because they eventually end up deleting files from some other teacher)...

[jderriks]

Hi Yannick,
Sessions is indeed something we should try. It is interesting however that using groups we can accomplish almost the same. And groups have some advantages over sessions.

Our education model is not just based on lessons with 1 teacher and some classes. Example: we have a project (=course) with 138 student-teams (groups) and a 56 different teachers with several roles that project (about 770 students in total).

The main reason NOT to use sessions is: delegation of administrative tasks. Students can subscribe themselves to the right group so no need to create classes or putting the right student in the right session. Same for teachers: 56 in one course saves us the trouble of administering who needs access to what group.

I was hoping the "self-subscribe to session" enhancement would be implemented at some time. Maybe it is true that with using sessions we can do the same as we do with groups now but the user administration is holding us back. Groups are great.

[ywarnier]

Interesting use case. We're confirming the speakers of Chamilo Conference Cartagena at the moment. If we still have empty spaces, I'll probably send you an invite to speak remotely about that if you like :-)

In the meantime, for your issue, we have no direct plans of adding this feature, but if this is urgent, please consider finding someone near you to develop it and then contribute it, or otherwise contact the Chamilo official providers for a quote.

I'll leave the task open, but just so you know... no direct plans for this (and our plate is already really full with plans).

[jderriks]

Catagena looks nice and warm - my collegue (from Colombia) says he'd loved to have a house there.
"Largest elearning conference in South America" sounds very promising for Chamilo too!

btw I'm still looking for a github auto-translate button to read Spanish and French issues :-)

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