OnTask documentation

Version 11.1

• 1. What is OnTask
  • 1.1. Research
  • 1.2. License
• 2. Installation process
  • 2.1. Requirements
    • 2.1.1. Install and Configure Redis
    • 2.1.2. Install and Configure PostgreSQL
    • 2.1.3. Install Python 3
  • 2.2. Download, install and configure OnTask
    • 2.2.1. OnTask Configuration
    • 2.2.2. OnTask Installation
    • 2.2.3. Configure the Distributed Task Queue
  • 2.3. Upgrading OnTask
    • 2.3.1. Are you upgrading from version < 4.0 to 4.2?
    • 2.3.2. Are you upgrading from version < 4.3 to 4.3?
    • 2.3.3. Are you upgrading to version 5.2?
    • 2.3.4. Are you upgrading from a version prior to 9.0?
    • 2.3.5. Upgrade Steps
  • 2.4. The Administration Pages
  • 2.5. Authentication
    • 2.5.1. LDAP Authentication
  • 2.6. Email Configuration
    • 2.6.1. Tracking Email Reads
  • 2.7. Canvas Configuration
  • 2.8. Plugins
  • 2.9. SQL Connections
  • 2.10. Creating users in Bulk
  • 2.11. Creating a Development Server using Docker
• 3. Using OnTask
  • 3.1. Workflow
  • 3.2. Data
    • 3.2.1. Upload Data
    • 3.2.2. Data Merge
  • 3.3. Table
    • 3.3.1. Table Views
  • 3.4. Actions
    • 3.4.1. Personalized Text
    • 3.4.2. Personalized Rubric Feedback
    • 3.4.3. Surveys
    • 3.4.4. Personalized JSON Object
    • 3.4.5. Send a data report in Email
    • 3.4.6. Send Column data as Report in JSON
    • 3.4.7. Personalized Canvas Email
  • 3.5. Running actions
    • 3.5.1. Sending personalized emails (Personalized Text Actions)
    • 3.5.2. Making personalized content available to learners
    • 3.5.3. Running a survey
    • 3.5.4. Sending personalized emails in Canvas
    • 3.5.5. Sending personalized JSON objects to another platform
    • 3.5.6. Creating a ZIP file with the personalized text (for Moodle)
  • 3.6. Additional Workflow Operations
    • 3.6.1. Workflow Operations
    • 3.6.2. Column Operations
    • 3.6.3. Scheduled Actions
    • 3.6.4. View logs
  • 3.7. Transforming the data with your own code
    • 3.7.1. Transformation requirements
• 4. Use Scenarios
  • 4.1. Scenario? I don’t even know what the tool does
  • 4.2. Scenario 2: Send email to all students with tailored text
  • 4.3. Scenario 3: Send email to some students with personalised text
• 5. Tutorial
  • 5.1. The Scenario
  • 5.2. The Dataset
    • 5.2.1. Key columns
  • 5.3. Exploring the data with a spreadsheet
    • 5.3.1. Questions
  • 5.4. Main elements in OnTask
  • 5.5. Create an empty workflow
  • 5.6. The Top Menu
  • 5.7. Data Upload
  • 5.8. Browsing the data table
    • 5.8.1. Table Views
    • 5.8.2. Column and Row Statistics
  • 5.9. Actions
  • 5.10. Personalized text action
    • 5.10.1. Selecting only a subset of learners
  • 5.11. Sending Personalized Text through Email
    • 5.11.1. Final look before pushing the GO button
  • 5.12. Example of Personalized Messages
  • 5.13. Making content available through OnTask
  • 5.14. Personalized Rubric Feedback
  • 5.15. Surveys and/or Polls
  • 5.16. Run a survey
  • 5.17. Combining personalized text and surveys
  • 5.18. Import a pre-defined survey
  • 5.19. Workflow operations
  • 5.20. Column operations
    • 5.20.1. Adding columns
  • 5.21. Personalized JSON action
  • 5.22. Scheduling Actions
    • 5.22.1. Scheduling Personalized Text Actions
    • 5.22.2. Scheduling Personalized JSON Actions
    • 5.22.3. Checking the scheduled execution
  • 5.23. Merging Data
  • 5.24. Download a ZIP (and upload it in Moodle)
    • 5.24.1. Use the ZIP file to upload feedback in Moodle
  • 5.25. Uploading Data from a Remote Database
  • 5.26. Write your own data processing code
    • 5.26.1. Example: A Predictive Model
  • 5.27. Browsing the API
    • 5.27.1. Workflow API
    • 5.27.2. Table API
• 6. Advanced Features
  • 6.1. The API (Application Programming Interface)

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