Organize by group member submissions

Hi, I am using a zotero group library in my history class. I am asking each student to submit one entry to the group library per week. I see that I can organize the library by most recent submissions, but I don't see how I can organize the library by who submitted the item. Being able to do so would be very helpful in reviewing student work and giving credit to where it is properly due.

At the moment, I am asking students to sign their names at the end of notes that they are required to attach to bibliographic entries. But students often forget to do so (their loss, I suppose). But there is also room for mischief (someone editing someone's note to erase their name and add their own). I can set up an individual collection for each student in the class within the group library and ask that when they submit to the group library they also copy it to their individual collection, but again, there is room for mischief (people copying other people's submissions into their own collection).

Is it possible, therefore, to look at an item submitted to a group library and see which group member submitted it? Would it then be possible to organize the library according by member submissions?
  • This would be helpful for me, too, as I give similar assignments.
  • Perhaps I have posted this to the wrong forum, but if someone from Zotero could reply to this post, I would be most appreciative.
  • I'm not from Zotero, but I can answer that no, this is not possible at this time.

    I'm not sure if this is ever going to happen - what you want is essentially full version control - i.e. to be able to trace every edit and its history - and I'm not sure if Zotero is the right tool for that at all (some wiki based solution comes to mind).
    While I think the teaching-tool scenario _should_ also be very low priority, I would think that some type of edit history would also be useful for collaborative projects, so I don't think this is entirely out of the question.
    But if it is going to happen, it's relatively distant future (unless, of course, a third party developer steps in).
  • While edit history may be out of the question for now, sorting by who submitted is presumably coming with the general overhaul of the website. As you know, right now sorting is pretty much nonexistent. When it comes, sorting should cover every field.
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