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Key: SAK-4429
Type: Bug Bug
Status: Closed Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: Blocker Blocker
Assignee: John Leasia
Reporter: Vivie Sinou
Votes: 0
Watchers: 1
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Submitted Assignment not showing up

Created: 25-Apr-2006 01:25   Updated: 24-Oct-2008 06:20
Component/s: Assignments
Affects Version/s: 2.1.2
Fix Version/s: 2.1.x, 2.2.0

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1. assignment7-graded.jpg
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2. assignment7-in-new.jpg
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3. Assignment8-assnt.jpg
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4. Assignment8-gradebook.jpg
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5. assignment_mheumann.jpg
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Summary: Two different cases have been reported where students have submitted assignments (setting inline only), but their names/submissions are not listed in the instructor's view. The students submitted successfully and see "Done" and cannot modify them, and see "Submitted," but the instructor cannot see the submitted assignment under Grade. Furthermore, inaccurate numbers are shown in In/New and reflected numbers in GB.

Instructor One:

Assignment 1 shows 22/2, but under GRADE, there are only 20 graded. No new to grade. A student has reported that she has submitted the assignment (done on her end) but it is not listed for the instructor. 20 are graded in the GB.

Assignment 2 shows 19/2, but under GRADE, there are 17 graded and 1 new to grade. 17 graded in the GB.

Instructor Two:

4/21 - Assignment #7 is showing 7 submitted and when I click on GRADE, it shows only 5 entries, but under the how many submitted it shows 7/2, which I think is 7 submitted and 2 not graded ? There are no 2 new to grade!

4/23 - now Assignment #7 shows 9/1, but I only see 8 submitted and graded. No 9th to grade is anywhere?!

(((FYI - Assignment 7 is not linked to the Gradebook. Perhaps it was at some point?)))

4/23 - Assignment #8 shows 7/0 and I can only see 6 submitted and graded..... Where is the 7th? To complicate matters more, Assignment #8 is linked to the gradebook. In the GB, only two students have grades!

Just a wild guess here, but I wonder.... Could it be that these instructors added the assignments to the gradebook AFTER some grades had been turned in and the synchronization is off whack? Any ideas how to fix the inconsistencies? More worrisome is the assignments that are supposedly submitted but not listed.



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Zhen Qian added a comment - 25-Apr-2006 10:01
I agree with you that the inconsistency between gradebook and assignment grades is due to assignment is modified to link to Gradebook after some grades had been returned. I have created another JIRA (SAK-4433) for this problem.

Meanwhile, the instructor could click on the "Release Grades" link in the "list submissions" page, which will update Gradebook with all existing grades.

I am still looking into the problem of in/out inconsistency with the total number showing in list view.

- Zhen

Zhen Qian added a comment - 25-Apr-2006 12:48
Vivie,

I still have no clue by looking at the soure code. Could you please ask your local DBA to run some scripts?

1) First is to verify the total submission for a signle assignment:

 select count(*) from assignment_submission where context = "assignment_ref";

where you can get assignment_ref from the assignment list view page. Right click on the assignment title link, the link is of format :

http(s)://server:port/portal/tool/tool_id?assignmentId=/assignment/a/site_id/assignment_ref&panel=....

2) Then, if we find the result is showing 9 submission for "Assignment 7" and Grade view page only list 7, we need look into more details:
select XML from assignment_submission where where context = "assignment_ref";

Thanks,

- Zhen
 

Vivie Sinou added a comment - 01-May-2006 12:34
We now have several cases with this blocker bug, where submitted work is not displayed to instructors to grade. From their end, students see confirmation that they have submitted the assignments. I have verified the latter by logging on as a student in several of the courses with the problem. Sometimes, none of the submissions are listed, and some times, only a partial listing of the assignment submissions are listed when clicking on grade.

Here is one example: The in/new column shows 4/4, but only two submissions are inside, yet two more students have submitted work (verified). To further test the issue, I added myself to another instructor's course (where a student submission, draft essay, was not available to the instructor to grade). I submitted an assignment, and went back to her course site as an admin. The in/new had changed to 2/2 but neither mine nor the other student's work was under it. It read, "There are no submissions." I noticed that the assignment was an "ungraded" type. I revised it to a point assignment to see if it would make a difference, but no change.

At this point, instructors cannot see nor grade student work.... Is there a workaround to 'bring it' up? Thanks.





Vivie Sinou added a comment - 01-May-2006 12:44
I meant that instructors cannot see (nor grade) _all of the submitted_ student work.... What's listed under grade is not always a complete list of what has been submitted by students. It does appear that the in/new is accurate.


Zhen Qian added a comment - 01-May-2006 12:51
Vivie,

I still couldn't reproduce the problem. I need look into the submission data. Could someone in your team query the MySQL db and send me the student submission data which is not showing up in the interface, with another record of working/shown submission for comparison?

Thanks,

- Zhen

Vivie Sinou added a comment - 03-May-2006 01:19
Zhen - the missing submissions appeared the other day after we restarted the servers.

A couple of days later, we have another case - 36/1, yet only 36 submissions are available. Perhaps with tomorrow morning's restart, it will appear! See attachment, assignment_mheumann.jpg.

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From instructor:

Here's a strange one. I had my students turn in rough drafts for their essay. I used the "Download All" feature--which worked beautifully, far better than any such feature in other CMS. I graded each essay on my computer and then returned them individually to each student. I get to the end, however, and there is one essay left in the downloaded folder but no more submissions in the Assignment.

So the question is: where is the missing assignment? Obviously, this student completed the assignment--I have the material proof. Plus, when I got to the Assignment List (see attachment), it indicates that there is one "new" submission. Something is amiss.

This is really a problem because, without the submission in Assignments, I cannot grade the student's work!

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Vivie Sinou added a comment - 03-May-2006 01:20
36/1 in/new, but only 36 are available.... 1 new is missing...

Vivie Sinou added a comment - 04-May-2006 13:27
Oops. Counted incorrectly. Instructor set me straight.

Only 35 assignments are visible within the assignment grade section. Hence, the missing submission is the 36th. So, technically, the 36/1 is correct--it's just that #36 is not visible - not available to grade.

Zhen Qian added a comment - 04-May-2006 13:37
Vivie,

You mentioned "after tomorrow morning's restart" in your 03-May comment. So has there been a restart? If so, is this submission still missing from the grade view?

Thanks,

- Zhen

Vivie Sinou added a comment - 04-May-2006 13:47
That's correct. We've restarted the servers two days in a row and no change. The assignment is still missing. Thus my most recent message this morning with the 35 assignments visible, though 36/1 are listed in the in/new item.

Zhen Qian added a comment - 14-May-2006 13:06
The problem is due to that the submission list for the grade view incorrectly contains draft submissions and the vm file for that view filters out drafts and shows only those submitted. While the sorting is based on the total number (submitted + drafts) and the vm shows only the submitted ones, that causes the incompatibility between list number and paging number.

Fixed in r9356 for 2.1.2 and r9357 for 2.2.

Thanks,

- Zhen

John Leasia added a comment - 07-Jun-2006 13:28
This is working ok on qa03 (2.2), and we have it in our 2.1.2 and it seems to have solved the problem there too.