Independent questionnaire language

[janno42]

The language of questionnaires should optimally fit the course's teaching language to encourage participants to think and answer in the language usually used within the course.

Therefore, the following things should be changed:

• The language in which questionnaires are shown should be made independent from the page's overall language. An additional switch button should be added at the top of the voting page, which changes the questionnaire's language.
• A new selection field "Main language" should be added to Evaluations, with the options "English", "German", and "Undefined" (or empty). Only staff users should be able to set it to "Undefined"; editors should be forced to choose a language.
• When opening a voting page, the questionnaire per default should be shown in the language set as the main language for the respective evaluation. If the main language is undefined, the page's current language is used.
• When a participant changes the questionnaire's language, this choice should be stored and used when reopening the same questionnaire.

[karyon]

Could you elaborate on the reasoning? I also think it's a little weird to have english comments in an all-german course because someone preferred to have the website displayed in english, but... why does it matter?

[janno42]

During the last semesters, we received several messages stating that it would be easier for participants to display the questionnaire in the teaching language. Sometimes people start answering the questions only then to notice that the other language would be better and rewriting everything. Also, the number of courses taught by people only able to speak one of the supported languages increased, making it more important to provide feedback for the contributors in the appropriate language.

[karyon]

makes sense, thanks!

[pixunil]

Some little clarification questions / thoughts:

• For me, it would be logical to use the questionnaire language also for results (I didn’t see it written out explicitely). This would imply that we have the same language control widget on both pages. Also, the selected user language for each individual evaluation must be saved not only for the voting period, but also until later, when the results are published (As a reminder that the implementation can not rely on a field of the voting form)
• For consistency I ask myself whether it is sensible to have a configuration for each evaluation or whether it would be better to have a configuration for a group of evaluations. Possible variations include: instead for a single Evaluation, for a single Course, or one configuration for several Courses (which would be the same course across mulitple semesters).
• When editors are forced to decide for an evaluation language, can staff only choose “Undefined” after editor have approved of the evaluation? Otherwise, we have to sensible handle a pre-selected “Undefined” language when the editor can only change away from it, but not to it.