UMRA – Teacher Assignment Drop Box Management

Have Questions? Email Me: Email Me Click Here

Tools4Ever’s Product Downloads Below.
Download User Management Resource Administrator > Download
Download Self Service Password Reset Manager SSRPM > Download
Download Enterprise Single Sign On Manager > Download

If you want to learn the basics on how to connect to UMRA with its COM object, please see my original post on “Basics of UMRA COM”.

UMRA – Teacher Assignment Drop Box Management

To read about the other options in the Teacher Management Portal, please see these blog post

File Distribution -
http://umratips.blogspot.com/2009/08/umra-teacher-file-distribution.html

Teacher Bulk Management -
http://umratips.blogspot.com/2009/08/umra-teacher-bulk-student-management.html

So this will be the final blog about the UMRA based portal that allows for Teachers to fully manage their current schools roster, without giving them any type of elevated rights in Active Directory or other downstream systems. So as you’ve already ready about within the teachers portal, they have the ability to Send Files to selected students within a specific portal, they also have the ability to manage a student on any given rosters of theirs. So the final part is to create Assignment “Drop Box” to allow the students from within there “Student Portal” (we will cover this later) to submit assignments to within the Drop Box dead line date. Now the tuff part about this section of the portal was to give the Teacher the rights to create a “Drop Box” folder, that will have a date on it from when it expires, and won’t allow students to upload to these Drop Box’s anymore. Now, I knew with UMRA handling all my backend folder creation and editing files. This would be no problem. So below is a quick screen shot, and I will go over some of the functions that the teachers has in more detail.



Get Folders Button -
In the toolbar, when the Teacher clicks this, UMRA will grab their home drive path, and map it to the correct current roster file location, and display any Rosters that are active.

2010 TeacherName PeriodX:
This is built dynamically, with the data that is pulled from the button click to get the folders. When the teacher clicks on the actual Period name, or roster name, it will pull up any assignments that the teacher has created for this roster period. Right now, the client is looking for a Phase 2 where they will add in “edit” and “delete” options for each of these functions.

Create New Assignment -
When the Teacher clicks this, it will pull up a quick entry form, where the teacher can put the Assignment name, and click a date picker, then hit “create” when they hit create, UMRA will take all this data, and create a corresponding roster folder.

Now overall again this is just one part of the Teachers Portal, and as you can see with all the options that we’ve talked about in other posts, the Teachers have a complete place to manage their students, and manage file distribution and drop box creation in one area, all with having no special permission in active directory or downstream systems. Now, in my next post, I will cover some parts of the student portal, and show you how these options directly affect the student portal.