Hi Aaron,
I understood what you meant, that your idea was an alternative .
If the "Copy" process is faster then that would make a lot of sense.
It would be fair to say we have more issues with unlocking than locking, if a snapshot (of either type) could be used to expedite that process it would be a benefit. So, lock the page / collection until the snapshot is taken and unlock it once the snapshot is complete thus removing the direct dependency between grading and unlocking.
Do you think this would be possible?
If this were possible there would still be a number of complexities such as re-submission, or how the process may be applied in the case of an ongoing journal (though I guess worst case would be the lecturer sets up multiple assignments in Moodle for each week).
Would it be worth us providing some use cases?
If so is there a format Catalyst uses for these?
Jez