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[Gordon McLeod <1036593@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kristina,
I guess there are a couple of ways of achieving this, though original idea hadn't been to publish directly to student page.  We currently use a manual paper report for every student each term, with the completed form being sent to the Head of Department or Module Leader for approval, then passed to the student. In thinking about the work process I saw this as a good use of online forms to add tutor comments on a number of specified fields quickly (probably in a staff only group page with the HoD as admin).

If the approved result could be shared online with the student in a way
that they could then display the tutor report as part of their portfolio
(while retaining granualar control over visibility) would enhance the
use of an online form. The limiter here is that there isn't an existing
'form field' object type in Mahara - so every individual text box must
be clicked to edit by the user to enter text. Might not seem a big deal
but convincing tutors used to writing on paper that they need to click
to edit 10 separate boxes instead of just writing/typing answers (or
selecting from a dropdown) makes it a less user-friendly option if
you've got to write 30+ of these every term.  I guess the distinction
between text box and form box would be that editing is defaulted to "on"
in the form box so users just type straight into the box.

Cheers, Gordon.

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Title:
  add form field for templates

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Enhancement / New Functionality:
  I was recently asked to look at online submission of tutor reports for our institution. I started by testing with Feedback form in Moodle - this works very well except that at some point the report needs to be shown to the individual student - not just sent from the tutor writing the report to Head of Department. I thought the more controllable views in Mahara would be ideal to enable this - in theory the student could even display the report as part of their resume if allowed. I therefore created a template of the form using text boxes - but that means the tutor needs to click to edit every single field in the report, making if far less user friendly. If there was an option to add Form Fields to a page (not just editabe text boxes) so that the person writing the report just types into the boxes (without having to edit each one) it would make Mahara the ideal solution to deliver this functionality. This could potentially be setup with other form functionality such as pre-populated dropdown lists of values.
  Regards, Gordon.

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