[LON-CAPA-admin] changing time limit problems?

[lucasm at ohiou.edu]

Argh - I haven't seen anything like this before.

Was this a cloned course? Had the warmups been used before?

There is a progression of parameters (for specific sections, specific 
users, etc...) that can be set for the folder. Could some of these have 
been overriding things?

Mark

 On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Peter Kovac wrote:

> Greetings~
> 
>     In prep for the start of this semester, one of our prof's was trying 
> to set up some timed problems (e.g., 30 minutes to solve a problem 
> set).  Apparently he was unable to change some of them from their 
> default (3 months+) to the desired value (30 minutes) directly.  His 
> description:
> 
> > The time limit for the WarmUps is supposed to be
> > 30 minutes.  Some of the WarmUps were set to this, but many were set to
> > something like 3 months, x hours, y minutes.  If I tried to change it
> > directly to 30 minutes, it would not budge.  I had to set it to 1 day
> > and 30 minutes and then delete the 1 day. 
> 
> 	The guy is fairly new to L-C so it could well be a PEBCAK but the error seems strange.  I haven't reproduced it and haven't seem him yet to get more details but... anyone seem something like this before?  Obvious answers/solutions?
> 
> 	-P
> 
> 
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