Re: Signinig up, versions, passing UMOs [was: Passing UMOs]

[sergey@total-knowledge.com]

There is one downside I see at this point.
UU is going to have bunch of UMOs in the Repository that do not belong to
any course. Imagine a situation when student finds a topic, a test or a
problem in Repository, but will not be able to study it because he cannot
sign up for it directly.

> Little clarification:
> Student can only _directly_ sign up for a course. All other UMOs are
> signed up for indirectly.
> Which just made me realize how things should be:
> 1. Student can sign up to different versions of a course (provided he
> has rights for that - more on this later)
> 2. At the time student signs up for a course, he automatically signs
> up for all all objects of that course, to versions that are specified in
> the course at that time. IOW, a snapshot of a course is taken.
> 3. While student is studying, he will not see _any_ changes to the
> course. IOW, retrieving version of an object to study will be based
> on information in sign-up tables.
> 4. If there is an UMO of exact same version that student already
> studied, he will not be able to "study" it again - his results from
> previous
> passage of this UMO will carry over. Otherwise he will have to pass it
> again.
>
> Now, what we need is to adjust database schema to allow all of this
> (I think some info on signing-up is missing right now, but I'll let
> Alexey look into it himself).
>
> sergey@total-knowledge.com wrote:
>>> Alexey Parshin wrote:
>>>
>>>> If an author is really interested to see the difference - then he can
>>>> simply see the difference between old rating (before new version) and
>>>> after. For instance, the rating was 4.5 and became 4.7 with the new
>>>> version..
>>>>
>>> True.
>>>
>>>> After all, people who passed that UMO can't vote for another version
>>>> because it requires 'em to pass that version again. BTW, this also
>>>> means that students can only pass the UMO once regardless of version..
>>>>
>>> Did you notice circular dependency in these two sentences?
>>> I am not sure whether we want to allow same student to pass different
>>> versions of same UMO or not.
>>>
>>
>> Imho if Student wants to study new version of UMO, he will have to
>> sign-up
>> for it again. And I think he should be able to submit a vote on new
>> version too.
>>
>>
>>> --
>>> Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
>>> Total Knowledge. CTO
>>> http://www.total-knowledge.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
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> Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
> Total Knowledge. CTO
> http://www.total-knowledge.com
>
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