Question - is anyone using the node_comment module to handle the submission of student information? Here's what I'm thinking of doing and i'm looking for yeh's or neh's about it....
Teacher creates a node of type "assignment" or something like that which has just some basic information about the assignment to submit. Set the comments ability to read / write and then enable this content type to make it's comments display the "assignment_submission" content type. Then I'll add in some fields to the assignment_submission content type via CCK such as Image fields, Title and description. This will allow me to create a View for instructors that displays all of the assignments submitted by User X as well as display their submissions inline with the content.
Does anyone see a problem with this (technologically speaking, not policy wise we've figured that all out). Currently we've got some custom stuff doing the inline image submission and we have another course where they just do the node->add assignment. We love the inline submission but it's proprietary and glitchy with some users. Any thoughts would be most appreciated.
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No need for node_comment
Node comment will work for this, but it effectively changes the way your commenting structure works for the entire site -- You can do this just as easily using a node reference --
Create an assignment node type -- then, you can have students respond to the assignment -- we have done this in the past using the prepopulate module to fill in the assignment nid on the student response -- you can then use views to get a list of responses to a specific assignment, a list of responses by student, etc.
Cheers,
Bill
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