Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Assessment - urgent

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17: Re: Assessment - urgent (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on
Ok, here is the use case.

A student comes to the openacs installation. The student can see form with three dropdowns...first the university, then the professor and finally the course. Once the course is found the student passes on the identification code for the course evaluation which is check against the list of valid codes for that evaluation. Then the student answers the evaluation and receives a receipt.

Finished.

How would you suggest to implement this with openacs?

The list of universities, professors and courses is dynamic. Professors should be able to extend it. Would the courses package be a starting point? How could we link a course to its corresponding assessment?

Once a course was found and the identification code is passed we need to check for its validation. Could I use a trigger for this purpose? Something like before we allow student to go on (pre assessment start) we check the code against the database. Once the course has finished we use a trigger to store in the database that this code has been used.

Also the student should not have an acs account. Every anonymous user should be able to process an assessment with a valid identification code.