Subject: Custom Grading Scales: Student Status - msg#00524

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Re: Unisa Email Problem

Ok, so, I log in, get to the point where I am literally just about to post an announcement, go back to eclipse, add a exception breakpoint on java.lang.Exception, do a post, and viola! I get a class not found exception for the class org.sakaiproject.service.legacy.notification.cover.NotificationService Somehow, this exception is ignored down the line, not logged, and therefore I guess the notification is just never sent... So, obviously I have something wrong with my jars in the wrong place or jars missing, but I can't think why! The class mentioned is absolutely available through the shared/lib/sakai-legacy-service-2.0.1.jar: [vdberj@pc-2370336 lib]$ jar tvf sakai-legacy-service-2.0.1.jar | grep NotificationService 860 Tue Mar 28 07:30:22 SAST 2006 org/sakaiproject/service/legacy/notification/NotificationService$1.class 4196 Tue Mar 28 07:30:22 SAST 2006 org/sakaiproject/service/legacy/notification/cover/NotificationService.class 2247 Tue Mar 28 07:30:22 SAST 2006 org/sakaiproject/service/legacy/notification/NotificationService.class [vdberj@pc-2370336 lib]$ pwd /home/vdberj/sakai/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/shared/lib Below is the stack trace. Thread [http-8080-Processor21] (Suspended (exception ClassNotFoundException)) URLClassLoader$1.run() line: 199 [local variables unavailable] AccessController.doPrivileged(PrivilegedExceptionAction, AccessControlContext) line: not available [native method] Launcher$ExtClassLoader(URLClassLoader).findClass(String) line: 187 Launcher$ExtClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClass(String, boolean) line: 289 Launcher$AppClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClass(String, boolean) line: 282 Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(String, boolean) line: 274 Launcher$AppClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClass(String) line: 235 WebappClassLoader.loadClass(String, boolean) line: 1247 WebappClassLoader.loadClass(String) line: 1181 WebappClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClassInternal(String) line: 302 AnnouncementAction.doPost(RunData, Context) line: 1905 NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Method, Object, Object[]) line: not available [native method] NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: 39 DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: 25 Method.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: 324 AnnouncementAction(VelocityPortletPaneledAction).actionDispatch(String, String, HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 521 AnnouncementAction(VelocityPortletPaneledAction).processAction(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 459 AnnouncementAction(ToolServlet).doGet(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 152 AnnouncementAction(VelocityPortletPaneledAction).doGet(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 929 AnnouncementAction(ToolServlet).doPost(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 127 AnnouncementAction(HttpServlet).service(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 709 AnnouncementAction(ComponentServlet).service(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 62 AnnouncementAction(HttpServlet).service(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 802 ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 252 ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 173 RequestFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 497 ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 202 ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 173 ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 672 ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 463 ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 359 ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 301 ActiveToolComponent$MyActiveTool.forward(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, Placement, String, String) line: 488 CharonPortal.forwardTool(ActiveTool, HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, Placement, String, String, String) line: 1051 CharonPortal.doTool(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, Session, String, String, String) line: 1009 CharonPortal.doPost(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 760 CharonPortal(HttpServlet).service(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 709 CharonPortal(HttpServlet).service(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 802 ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 252 ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 173 RequestFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 528 ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 202 ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 173 StandardWrapperValve.invoke(Request, Response) line: 213 StandardContextValve.invoke(Request, Response) line: 178 StandardHostValve.invoke(Request, Response) line: 126 ErrorReportValve.invoke(Request, Response) line: 105 StandardEngineValve.invoke(Request, Response) line: 107 CoyoteAdapter.service(Request, Response) line: 148 Http11Processor.process(InputStream, OutputStream) line: 856 Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(TcpConnection, Object[]) line: 744 PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(Socket, TcpConnection, Object[]) line: 527 LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(Object[]) line: 80 ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run() line: 684 ThreadWithAttributes(Thread).run() line: 534 On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 16:51 +0200, Johan van den Berg wrote: > Here's what I've figure out thus far: > > By placing a breakpoints in the BaseNotification service, I can see that > 3 transient notifications are registered (announcements, resources and > mail archives). Then, when the first event comes, a breakpoint on the > BaseNotification service stops the update method, and I can see that the > event is (for instance) a user.logout event. As soon as it tries to get > the list of notifications from the cache within the getNotifications > method, the cache is null, and the method fails quietly with a > NullPointerException. Therefore, none of the transient notifications get > their respective action classes called, and no mail is sent out (in the > event of for instance an announcement that is supposed to notify with > email.) > > After the first event failed, the EventTrackingService never again calls > the update of BaseNotificationService, and all notifications are > therefore ignored. > > So, I added a breakpoint in the init method of the > BaseNotificationService, and I see that the cache is created, but still, > by the time it reaches the update method, there is no longer a cache. > > I've checked all the obvious things, such as tomcat startup parameters > for memory, making sure the mail in general actually works, but I have > no answer as of yet why this is happening. > > Hope someone can shed some light on this strange phenomenon. > > > > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:47 +0200, Johan van den Berg wrote: > > I have 2 identical systems, development and production. Both have > > exactly the same setups, except that the one connects to development > > Active Directory, NDS, Oracle and MySQL, and the other one to similar > > production servers that contain a fair amount more data. > > > > For some very elusive reason, my development site is able to send > > Announcement and Resource notifications via email, but production not. > > All other email functionality within sakai works 100%, including some of > > our own tools that use the EmailService bean in through the component > > manager (the same one that that the NotificationService uses to send > > mail) > > > > We run 2.0.1 in both environments. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > ---------------------- > > This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab > > (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. > > You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences. > > > > ---------------------- > This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab > (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. > You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences. > ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. 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RE: Spell checking Utility for Sakai?

It wasn't last night but it is now.. /** * @author Joshua Ryan joshua.ryan@xxxxxxx */ -----Original Message----- From: Charles Severance [mailto:csev@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:40 PM To: Joshua Ryan Cc: Jim Eng; Lydia Li; sakai-dev Subject: Re: Spell checking Utility for Sakai? Joshua - does it check the configuration option and switch synamically, or does it just do FCK?? /Chuck On Mar 29, 2006, at 11:42 PM, Joshua Ryan wrote: > I just finished porting the FCKeditor renderer for Samigo that I was > speaking of last night (and my little resources connector) up to the > current code base. It's up at: > http://sakai.dmit.asu.edu:8081/portal normal OTB login info applies. > > Once inside go to Samigo and create or edit some questions, try an MC > question if you want to see the slowness that previously > discouraged me > from considering this to be ready to share. > > /** > * @author Joshua Ryan joshua.ryan@xxxxxxx > */ > > > *** Disclaimer: this is not quite at a 'finished' state. > > ---------------------- > This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab > (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. > You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > > Preferences. > > > ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.

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RE: Customizing roles in messagecenter_m3

For the new permissions model for Message Center we have defined the permission level to role mapping externally in sakai.properties as follows (mc.default.role_name=permission_level): #MC Permission Defaults mc.default.instructor=Owner mc.default.project\ owner=Owner mc.default.assistant=Author mc.default.member=Nonediting Author mc.default.candidate=Nonediting Author mc.default.student=Contributor mc.default.visitor=Contributor mc.default.observer=Reviewer mc.default.access=Contributor ## For Sakai OOTB Roles mc.default.Student=Contributor mc.default.Instructor=Owner 1) To define a new default permission_level: define a type and a permission level with matching type_uuids see: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/branches/forums-dev/docs/updating/mfr_m2 -m3_oracle_conversion.sql 2) To remove a default permission_level either: - remove the permission level from the script before deploying m3 or - remove the default permission_level from the db directly after deployment 3) To modify an existing permission_level: modify the default permission_level either at the script or database level (depending on if you have deployed m3 to the app server). On upgrading from m2, we have considered existing areas/forums/topics which were created before the new permission level model. These objects will take the default permission levels on first access. Thanks, -Jarrod -----Original Message----- From: David Horwitz [mailto:dhorwitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:35 AM To: sakai-dev Subject: Customizing roles in messagecenter_m3 Hi All, I was wondering how one went about customizing the new permission roles in messagecenter? I mean author, contributor etc. in the forum and topic settings. Specifically I would be interested in how one: 1) Defines an a new role 2) removes a default role 3) modifies an existing role (name, associated permissions) I notice the the role names don't seem to be in the resource bundle so I presume even changing the names will entail code changes. I'm also interested in how these will behave in fora migrated from m2? Thanks David -- "It remains that, from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World." - Newton "Pricipia Mathematica" [see attachment: "dhorwitz.vcf", size: 468 bytes] Attachments: dhorwitz.vcf http://collab.sakaiproject.org/access/content/attachment/f9feeb49-94c8-4d8c- 00e0-8f1dc3757e76/dhorwitz.vcf ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences. [see attachment: "smime.p7s", size: 3103 bytes] Attachments: smime.p7s http://collab.sakaiproject.org/access/content/attachment/1c61bdcf-3681-4ca9-007f-00acd835faa5/smime.p7s ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.

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Re: Custom Grading Scales: Student Status

Ray Davis is probably the best person to answer this question, but he's out of the office until May 4th. In his absence, I'll give your question my best shot. As you already know, grade mappings are used for converting numeric scores into letter grades suitable for display to the user. Let's look at a fictional example: 100% Z 90% Y 80% X The gradebook checks a score (say a 92%) against the letter grade with the highest percentage and if the score is >= the percentage, it returns that letter. Is 92 higher than 100? No, so this isn't a 'Z'. It then checks the rest of the grade mappings in the same way. So what happens if we have two grade mappings with the same percent value? 100% Z 90% Y 90% X 80% W We can't know which letter to check first (X or Y), so we'll never know which one to use for our 92%. That's the long story. The short one is "you can't have multiple letter grades mapped to the same percentage in a grade mapping right now". There are probably ways we could handle this, such as applying an index to each letter to impose an order independent from the percentage value... if this is something that's important for your institution, please submit a feature request. Thanks, Josh Jeremy Peterson wrote: I've been working with adding Custom grade mapping. I've been able to add two different scales, one for Undergraduate and Graduate. I'm having problems with status type messages in this. For example: * Incomplete * Withdraw * Withdraw Passing * Withdraw Failing * Extension It would be nice to add these options to the list after F or even to create a new summary field for student status in the gradebook. I've tried to modify the grade mapping. grades.add("F"); grades.add("W"); grades.add("WP"); grades.add("WF"); defaultValues.add(new Double(03)); defaultValues.add(new Double(02)); defaultValues.add(new Double(01)); defaultValues.add(new Double(00)); No matter if I create these with 00 for all four or as I did it here, it does not work properly. It seems to work properly when I just have W and 00 as a defualtValues. However it would be nice to do more than we have. What options do I have to work on this? What problems would I have if I left one extra field that seems to work? [grades.add("W"); defaultValues.add(new Double(00));] Jeremy Jeremy Peterson, MACS Automation Systems Administrator Crowell Library Moody Bible Institute 820 N. LaSalle Drive Chicago, IL, 60610 Email: jpeterso@xxxxxxxxx Phone: 312.329.8081 Fax: 312.329.8959 [see attachment: "message0.html", size: 2193 bytes] Attachments: message0.html http://collab.sakaiproject.org/access/content/attachment/b64db0df-cd58-4a69-80ac-ea8b4ad25234/message0.html ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences. -- Josh Holtzman Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley jholtzman@xxxxxxxxxxxx 510.643.7380 ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab (http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: Development site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.