When using Student Content pages in Lessons to allow students to post their own content - and leverage the comments function - it's not possible to use the add section/column features of the student added content page - either by the student who created the page or by the instructor.
Interestingly the Add Column break and Add Section break appear - but only when selecting the add content item PLUS sign along the right side of the page. These options do not appear in the Add Content menu. When using the PLUS sign along the right side of the page as the student or as the instructor in the course, the column and section breaks can be added, but do not remain. Leaving the page and coming back to it shows the page w/o the breaks - as if they'd not been added.
Create a site with Lessons tool and with at least one instructor and one student
As the instructor, on the Lesson page add a Student Content area - selecting the following as features of the Student Content pages:
"Add a Comments Section to each page"
Log out and then login as a student in the course - go to the Lesson page
Select to "Add Your Own Page" and add a Text area using the Add Content menu > Add Text - enter some arbitrary text and save the added text to the page
Once the page reloads - as the student attempt to use the Add Content menu to add a column or section break
Once added navigate to some other tool in the course and then come back to the Lesson page and view your student content page and see if the column/section breaks remain
EXPECTED RESULT: column and section breaks remain as the student authored them
Go back to step 6 but login as the instructor and make modifications to the layout of student content page reflecting column and/or section breaks.
Repeat step 7
EXPECTED RESULT: column and section breaks remain as the instructor modified them
ANOTHER option is to completely remove the Add Content>column/section break option from the PLUS sign access for Student Content pages.
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Shawn Foster August 1, 2019 at 8:51 AM
Thanks for confirming, @Thomas Kelsey.
Thomas Kelsey July 30, 2019 at 2:30 PM
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@Shawn Foster, I found that breaks worked on 19(https://qa1-us.nightly.sakaiproject.org) and 20 (https://trunk-mysql.nightly.sakaiproject.org), as long as you don't try to separate the comments section from the text the comment is supposed to be about. @Dave Eveland, is this the issue you encountered, or were section breaks not working even if added above the text itself?
EDIT
After watching the attached screencast, I realized that this is the issue you are describing. This issue is also present in 19 and 20
Shawn Foster April 1, 2019 at 2:03 PM
Thanks, @Dave Eveland!
Dave Eveland April 1, 2019 at 1:21 PM
@Shawn Foster I have not checked this on 20. I will do so.
Shawn Foster April 1, 2019 at 1:19 PM
@Dave Eveland, is this an issue on Sakai 20 (master) and Sakai 19?
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When using Student Content pages in Lessons to allow students to post their own content - and leverage the comments function - it's not possible to use the add section/column features of the student added content page - either by the student who created the page or by the instructor.
Interestingly the Add Column break and Add Section break appear - but only when selecting the add content item PLUS sign along the right side of the page. These options do not appear in the Add Content menu. When using the PLUS sign along the right side of the page as the student or as the instructor in the course, the column and section breaks can be added, but do not remain. Leaving the page and coming back to it shows the page w/o the breaks - as if they'd not been added.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cqetFN08jK
TEST PLAN:
Create a site with Lessons tool and with at least one instructor and one student
As the instructor, on the Lesson page add a Student Content area - selecting the following as features of the Student Content pages:
"Add a Comments Section to each page"
Log out and then login as a student in the course - go to the Lesson page
Select to "Add Your Own Page" and add a Text area using the Add Content menu > Add Text - enter some arbitrary text and save the added text to the page
Once the page reloads - as the student attempt to use the Add Content menu to add a column or section break
Once added navigate to some other tool in the course and then come back to the Lesson page and view your student content page and see if the column/section breaks remain
EXPECTED RESULT: column and section breaks remain as the student authored them
Go back to step 6 but login as the instructor and make modifications to the layout of student content page reflecting column and/or section breaks.
Repeat step 7
EXPECTED RESULT: column and section breaks remain as the instructor modified them
ANOTHER option is to completely remove the Add Content>column/section break option from the PLUS sign access for Student Content pages.