Add student special needs information and surface additional info in Roster

This feature has been sponsored and contributed by UDL - Universitat de Lleida

It allows surfacing special needs information for users in the Roster, instructors can see this information but students' not. It’s very important for the instructors to know more information about specific students with special needs, instructors may take into consideration some additional instructions in order to grade, or create materials, or communication, for this reason the Roster tool will surface this private information about users'.

From the technical perspective, this information must be inserted into ‘a user property’, it can also be populated via DB, via providers like LDAP, etc

The properties are:

• specialNeeds

• candidateID

• additionalInfo

The data is expected to be encrypted by default, which can be disabled with following properties:

• encryptInstitutionalNumericID

• encryptCandidateDetails

See more information here

1. Add special needs information to CandidateDetailProvider

   • SampleCandidateDetailProvider will provide demo data for special needs, as it does already for additional notes and student numbers

   • Add new property, enabled by default displaySpecialNeeds

2. Change following properties to be enabled by default

   • displayAdditionalInformation

   • useInstitutionalNumericID

3. Surface Student Number, and “Additional Information” - special needs and notes in Roster tool

   • Special needs and notes can have multiple values (list), and might be lengthy, that's why an button is added to display the additional information

   • In the print view the information is displayed instead of the button

   • Add new permission roster.viewcandidatedetails

     • Active by default for maintain and Instructor

To enable this feature with sakai.demo=false uncomment <import resource="candidate-details.xml" /> in the file providers/component/src/webapp/WEB-INF/components.xml