Email notifications of new activity for course instructors

[boonebgorges]

For spring milestone, we need something like this:

• [x] A hardcoded list that connects instructor OL accounts with section info (as that info is parsed from URLs by WeBWorK
• [x] Someone will have to provide me with that list
• [x] When activity is created, use the list to look up the corresponding instructor, and send an email notification

In the future, we can make this more sophisticated and non-hardcoded

[drdrew42]

I'll get you the list for Spring. Just lastnames + email addresses?

[boonebgorges]

@drdrew42 I need enough information to match courses to instructors. Email addresses are good on the OL end. I assume last names will work from WW because the last name is always included in the course URL. Is that correct? If so, then yes.

[drdrew42]

That's correct. My standard form is "Course###-SemesterYear-LastName"

[boonebgorges]

@drdrew42 Ping! Any chance you can provide me with a list, even if it's not complete? Having some real(ish) data - corresponding to a real WW class - will help me to build out the feature. I can always swap out for the up-to-date list closer to the beginning of the term.

[drdrew42]

Let me get the list from the seminar team. What data do you need from a real-ish class? You still have access to my Fall16 MAT1275 course on the WW site from last semester - is that enough?

[boonebgorges]

I need a list of unique faculty identifiers - I guess this would be email addresses, as long as they match the email addresses on file in the OpenLab - and the URLs of the WeBWorK courses they're associated with.

On 01/06/2017 01:45 PM, drdrew42 wrote:

Let me get the list from the seminar team. What data do you need from a real-ish class? You still have access to my Fall16 MAT1275 course on the WW site from last semester - is that enough?

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[boonebgorges]

The basic infrastructure is now in place. The data format that I'll need looks like this:

[
  section_name => instructor_email,
  section_name => instructor_email,
]

eg

[
  'MAT355-TTh434-Gorges' => 'boone@example.com',
  'MAT356-TTh434-Parker-' => 'drew@foo.bar',
]

[moui72]

this is still waiting on @drdrew42 right?

[boonebgorges]

Yes

On 01/26/2017 12:19 PM, Tyler J. Peckenpaugh wrote:

this is still waiting on @drdrew42 https://github.com/drdrew42 right?

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[moui72]

this was ultimately implemented, but needs streamlining for the future. changing milestone

[boonebgorges]

A note here (and on #119) that if we get better info from WeBWorK, we may not need this kind of feature. That is, if WW sends us the email(s) of the instructor(s), we can use those to identify corresponding OL users, and skip the course-instructor mapping altogether.

[boonebgorges]

This is basically working in its current config, so I'm closing.