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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Tracking Responses to Specific Assignments


In some cases, an assignment will be answered by students online. This section covers how to track student responses to specific assignments. In Chapter 6, we cloned the default backlinks view that comes with the Views module as a way of showing links between blog posts. We will use the same technique to see student responses to specific assignments.

Chapter 6 describes the steps we need to follow. Depending on how you want your view to look, you can add fields, modify the display style, and experiment with other options as described in the different sections of this book. However, the primary changes we need to make with this view concern modifying the argument and the access to the view.

All of the edits we will make will be to the Defaults display.

Editing the Argument

We only want this view to return posts that link to assignments. To make this happen, we need to edit the existing argument of the view to only validate for assignments.

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