Re: "Download all assignments" - How to approach filtering and selections in mod_assign

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the concise summary; I think you have captured the majority of user stories here. Another suggested user story is:

• A marker has downloaded a group of students submissions before the assignment cut off date. Several students submit between this date and the assignment cut off date. The marker needs a way of downloading selected submissions. (probably solved under MDL-39989 and MDL-36151)

In answer to your questions raised in the key points section:

1. I can see the confusion that arises from having multiple areas to download submissions (Grading actions and With selected dropdown lists), but think that each of these menus serves a different purpose. The grading actions menu interacts with the entire assignment submission table (or the current filtered view) whereas the With selected menu requires user intervention to select specific students. I can definitely see some UX improvements could be made to the relationship between filters and the Grading actions menu. Something that springs to mind is the great work that was done to the filters in enrol/users.php:
2. We've yet to make any improvements on how to indicate to staff what filter / section of the submission table is going to be downloaded - a simple improvement to MDL-39989 would be passing through the label of the current filter to better describe what files would be downloaded.

At our university, we currently have implemented MDL-36857, MDL-39989 with some improvements to filters MDL-44579 which seems to cover the majority of our requirements.

Regards,

Greg