Flags for exam pages
Hi, continuing the discussion from http://wiki.ubc.ca/Science_talk:Math_Exam_Resources/Courses/MATH100/December_2011/Question_5_(e)
Exam pages are flagged as one of the three: a) QG - (quality good) exam is solved completely. b) IP - (in progress) we have a couple of solutions, but exam is not complete yet. c) no flag - exam is invisible to students.
The intention is to avoid student frustration when they click on an exam that has no solutions. Hence, exams are initially in c). Once we think it is not a waste for the student to see the exam we flag it as IP, which makes it visible. The questions with solutions are clearly separated from the one where we are still working on the solution. Once all questions have reviewed solutions we mark the exam as QG. Only QG exams add to our counter of "complete exams".
The question was: Can we automatically change the flag from IP to QG when, say, all C,H,S flags start with QG. Two reasons we are not doing this automatically for now: i) It is technically challenging (impossible?) to implement. ii) What happens when later a student finds a typo in one of the solutions and we flag this solution as QB or R? Should the whole exam then also be IP again? In the current system this is not the case, an exam can be QG even when a few solutions are QB and need to be fixed. I think this is less confusing than having exams moving back and forth between IP and QG, especially since students' comments and QB flags should be our highest priority and hence resolve quickly.
If you have a different opinion, let's discuss.
IF statements inside of the wiki are fairly expensive functions and often difficult to implement. The way we flag things right now is using categories. And those are written inside the content of the page. We cannot have code that change the content of a page from the outside.
They way this wiki works, we don't expect the status of exams to change dramatically or change very often, especially once an exam is complete and given a GQ status. I agree with your suggestion to just let things be, QB flags have been so far dealt with fairly quickly.