[ZendTo] Predefined Drop Offs

[Jules]

Gregg,

You can basically do all of this now.

Your "Predefined Drop Off(PDO)" is what ZendTo calls a "request for a 
drop-off". There is a button on the main menu to do exactly this.
You can send these to multiple recipients by putting multiple email 
addresses in the "Request a drop-off" form, just separate them with 
commas or spaces.

The rest of it you can do with ZendTo's automation feature, where you 
can create a "request for a drop-off" from the command-line, and hence 
from a script. You would need to write something to tie that in to your 
existing coursework management system, but the scripts that drive ZendTo 
automatically are actually nothing more than a long "curl" command to do 
an HTTP POST operation that supplies all the information in 1 hit.

The automation stuff is documented here
     zend.to/automation
and there is a script called "autorequest" which automates the "request 
a drop-off" process.

Any more questions, problems, or any other way I can help, please do no 
hesitate to get in touch.

I work for a University myself, and have written coursework submission 
systems before. A few of our academics use our instance of ZendTo to get 
coursework submissions from students, especially when they are large 
submissions like videos of interviews.

Hope that helps,
Jules.

On 08/07/2020 18:08, Gregg Douglas via ZendTo wrote:
>
> Hey Jules,
>
>
> I hope you are keeping safe and healthy.
>
>
> I would like to bounce an idea with you?
>
> Take a Lecturer or Tender Officer, they need to request students to 
> submit assignments or suppliers to submit tenders.
>
> This person (Lecturer or Tender Officer) would then access ZendTO and 
> create a “Predefined Drop Off(PDO)”. In this PDO, one would preselect 
> or predefine all the fields and options. The Subject, would also be 
> predefined, but would be used as a field to group the PDOs. So, for a 
> Lecturer they would use the Subject to define the name of the 
> assignment that the students must submit. A Tender Officer would use 
> the Subject to define the Tender Reference. The Short Note Field could 
> be left as a free text block, allowing the Student or Supplier to 
> include a note. There would also need to be Start and End Date fields, 
> which would define the period the PDO will be active for.
>
> Then, there would need to be an “Alternative” Interface for ZendTO. In 
> this “Alternative” Interface a student or supplier could select the 
> relevant active Assignment or Tender form a list of all active ones. 
> On selecting the required item from the list, the normal process of 
> “Requesting a Drop Off” would follow, like confirming the email 
> address of the student or supplier via the verification email. The 
> link in this email would open the PDO with all the predefined fields 
> and the student or supplier can then upload and submit the information.
>
>
> It was a thought I have for a future feature.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Gregg
>
>
>
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Jules

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