XP Grants tracking system
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 6:46 pm
The RPMod section of our website already allows us to track XP grants in a different way than the traditional "check all XP grant posts in a person's journal".
Specifically, I'm referring to RPMod section > Characters > Click on the blue "info" button that corresponds to the character we want to check > scroll down to the "Activity" section.
I think login is required in order to view XP grants, but basically what the page shows is this:
In this page, the list of XP grants is sadly alternated with other messages, mainly force template changes, but as you can see each XP grant is detailed with a comment and the date&time in which the XP was given.
So my idea is simple: if a clean list of XP grants could be generated in a similar fashion to the one shown up here, it may prove an easier and more reliable way to track XP grants than the old "journal XP grant posts".
Let me list the downsides of tracking XP grants via Journal posts:
I'd like to underline that generating an easily accessible automatically compiled list of XP grants, similar to the one we already have, but with the edits I suggested and with a more accessible location, wouldn't prevent any master from posting a comment or an observation in a student's personal journal. On the other hand, such entries would gain more value, since they wouldn't be as common as "yet another Xp granting post".
However, there is an issue: "XP grants pending approval".
In order to completely avoid OOC XP granting posts, we'd pending XP messages to be shown in the automatic generated XP granting list, either by editing the /rpgivexp command, adding another field that adds the condition "Pending approval", or allowing masters to add it as a note on the same list from wherever the list is shown.
In either case, this XP grants list would require a more accessible location than the one it currently holds, in my opinion, and should ultimately replace the journal XP grant posts.
Specifically, I'm referring to RPMod section > Characters > Click on the blue "info" button that corresponds to the character we want to check > scroll down to the "Activity" section.
I think login is required in order to view XP grants, but basically what the page shows is this:
In this page, the list of XP grants is sadly alternated with other messages, mainly force template changes, but as you can see each XP grant is detailed with a comment and the date&time in which the XP was given.
So my idea is simple: if a clean list of XP grants could be generated in a similar fashion to the one shown up here, it may prove an easier and more reliable way to track XP grants than the old "journal XP grant posts".
Let me list the downsides of tracking XP grants via Journal posts:
- Huge amount of OOC posts in personal journals (often the majority of posts in journals are just XP grants)
- Time consuming for mentors, especially after classes, when one has to copy paste the message on each student who attended the class
- Increases the size of journals, making it hard to track older personal entries
- Makes it difficult to verify correct XP grants
- Opens to the possibility of mistakes correlated to manual posting
I'd like to underline that generating an easily accessible automatically compiled list of XP grants, similar to the one we already have, but with the edits I suggested and with a more accessible location, wouldn't prevent any master from posting a comment or an observation in a student's personal journal. On the other hand, such entries would gain more value, since they wouldn't be as common as "yet another Xp granting post".
However, there is an issue: "XP grants pending approval".
In order to completely avoid OOC XP granting posts, we'd pending XP messages to be shown in the automatic generated XP granting list, either by editing the /rpgivexp command, adding another field that adds the condition "Pending approval", or allowing masters to add it as a note on the same list from wherever the list is shown.
In either case, this XP grants list would require a more accessible location than the one it currently holds, in my opinion, and should ultimately replace the journal XP grant posts.