Title: Birds of a Feather (BOF) - Student Activity Guides
Author: Paul Steenkamp, University of Cape Town
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The intent of this blog / article is to summarize and share our recent BOF Student Activity Guide meeting discussion.
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As everyone knows, the Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions are quite popular during Alliance Conferences across all Advisory Groups. These sessions are great places where community members with similar interests can meet and discuss features and functionality. From our CC Alliance 2020 BOF session, I recall that members expressed an interest in having this type of session on a regular basis after Alliance 2020. This was a wonderful idea and an interactive initiative for further collaboration other than the usual AG blog, webinar and listserv forum formats available currently.
The CC AG hosted it's first extended BOF meeting session recently and the topic was on Student Activity Guides. The meeting was well attended, very interactive and discussions ranged from functional to some technical aspects of this functionality. Overall, I think that most questions were addressed in the scheduled time frame for this meeting. Student Activity Guide features and functionality work well, especially when moved to the Fluid Interface and I think we as a Community will always have something available for discussion on this topic. The agenda for the meeting is available here.
We are planning on improving and hosting more of these type meetings and I think additional time and some demonstrations will be a good start for improvements going forward. Please remember that you can assist us by submitting ideas and topics here.
Unfortunately, I don't have a full recording of this meeting available as planned. I was under the impression that the recording would have started automatically when the meeting started. The incomplete recording is available from the HEUG E-Academy archives here.
During the meeting I demonstrated the use of a Questionnaire Action Item in a Student Activity Guide Template. I'm going to illustrate it as part of this article, sadly it's not part of the recording including some of the discussions. I think this will be useful when students need to complete some form of survey, just to mention one example. I'm illustrating wirth an actual online registration template that we use at my Institution. The Questionnaire Framework is available in PUM 17 and I'm not going into any details on how to create questionnaires right now, I'll do this as part of a new blog / article in this series later with real examples.
Adding a Questionnaire to a Student Activity Guide
After a Questionnaire is created and activated, it can be inserted as a PS Component Action Item as part of a Fluid Student Activity Guide Template. See Image 1 below.
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The delivered EOQF_QSTNR_FL service id must then be specified in the Service Configuration. See Image 2 below.
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The Questionnaire Category and Code must then be provided in Configure Context Data. This loads the correct Questionnaire at runtime. See Image 3 below.
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The correct Package Name, Path and Class Name must be specified in Configure Related Data. See Image 4 below.
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When a Student opens the Questionnaire Action Item in the Guided Task, the Questionnaire will be displayed. See Image 5 below.
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Thanks to everyone that attended and for your contributions. We are looking forward to the next BOF meeting, we'll make sure that there will be a full recording!!, so keep an eye out for the invitation in our forum.