environment: bb 5.5.1 level 3 (linux + oracle)
Haven't worked out all the details, and only just now logged the problem,
but figured this is important enough to give you a head warning: deleting
users that are instructors on a course, or removing instructors from a
course (including "Quick Enroll"-ed admin accounts) *may* make drop box
entries invisible.
It looks like when a drop box entry is sent to the instructors, it gets
assigned to one, and only one, of the instructors of the course. When you
remove that user from the system or from the course, you also remove the
record that makes the drop box entry visible.
We just finished a massive cleanup operation (deleted over 13,000 unused
accounts, and cleaned up a bunch of "Quick Enroll" entries from our admin
accounts), and got complaints from instructors who noticed that exam tasks
were lost. Fortunately, the files are still present at filesystem level.
(At least, we found a bunch of them back - no way of telling whether we
found them all.)
Not pleased. We were at the end of the exam period, and had planned a bunch
of other tasks for this between-term period, which now get delayed because
there was insufficient time to prepare properly.
Not sure if this only affects "instructors" or also teaching assistants,
course builders, ...
Herta
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