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John Williams - Using Feedback

by Arnold Pizer -
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inactiveTopicUsing Feedback topic started 9/5/2002; 6:35:33 AM
last post 9/5/2002; 10:18:21 AM
userJohn Williams - Using Feedback  blueArrow
9/5/2002; 6:35:33 AM (reads: 856, responses: 1)
Hi. At the U of Hartford, we just installed the newest version and feedback seems different. When the student uses the feedback button, an email is generated and sent to the instructor with a link to the problem which the student was viewing. When you click on that link it brings you to the students problem (after asking for your password). But the student answers are not there. When you then go to the problem via the instructors page, student progress, specific problem, the answers are there. I was wondering if this had something to do with the new show old answer check box.

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userArnold K. Pizer - Re: Using Feedback  blueArrow
9/5/2002; 10:18:21 AM (reads: 1097, responses: 0)
Yes it does and this is fixed in the new (and as yet unreleased) version 1.8 of WeBWorK. However, it is very easy to change on your current system. Also if you go to the Problem List, check "Show my old answers" (maybe this will already be checked) and then go back to the problem, you will see the student's answer but this is a pain.

FIRST METHOD:

Edit feedback.pl chaning line 129 from
$url .= '?probSetKey='.param('probSetKey').'&probNum='.param('probNum').'&Mode='.param('Mode').'&course='.param('course')."&user=$USER&key=".param('key');
to
$url .= '?probSetKey='.param('probSetKey').'&probNum='.param('probNum').'&Mode='.param('Mode').'&show_old_answers=1'.'&course='.param('course')."&user=$USER&key=".param('key');

Notice the extra: '&show_old_answers=1'

SECOND METHOD:

Go to the CVS repository http://webwork-db.math.rochester.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
then to
webwork/system/cgi/cgi-scripts/
and download the current version of feedback.pl . That will also fix a very obscure bug. If you do that, you will have to edit the first line of the file giving the path to perl on your system.

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