Email notification upon opening of missions, quests, paths

[ghost]

@martin-henz commented on Aug 15, 2018, 5:05 AM UTC:

Students find completion feedback lacking when a path is completed. Here a student comment. I think this is legit, and we should look into it.

**Could an email notification be sent out once the Path is accessible, so we don't have to keep refreshing the page (and given that the due date is tomorrow)? Thanks!

Martin's answer: You should complete path P1 before tomorrow, but note that it is not connected to a CS1101S assessment component. Path P1 is meant as an ungraded self-assessment.

We will look into improving the feedback upon path completion. Thanks for the suggestion.

-martin**

This issue was moved by ningyuansg from source-academy/cadet-frontend#301.

[ghost]

@ningyuansg commented on Aug 17, 2018, 3:03 AM UTC:

Implementation will have to be on the backend. Frontend runs on the client-side and is not suitable for this task.

/move to cadet

[indocomsoft]

@martin-henz @ningyuansg currently we don't have any plan for using email notification -- that will have to be deferred to the next batch, or IVLE announcement can be used instead.

What I think would help as well is https://github.com/source-academy/cadet-frontend/issues/299 since at least students know when it would open and don't have to keep on refreshing the page.

[martin-henz]

Changing the label to postponed: Hopefully the notification tool will be good enough for this. Email maybe next year?

[angelsl]

Do we still want this? I think it's quite unnecessary, since the open date is usually quite clear for assessments that are ready beforehand, and otherwise for the handful of assessments that the staff is late in uploading, they can just manually send an announcement via LumiNUS.

[martin-henz]

Yes, this is obsolete.