[LON-CAPA-users] disabling PRT
Todd Ruskell
lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Thu, 09 Sep 2004 16:59:41 -0600
Ray,
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:52, Ray Batchelor wrote:
> Hi Todd,
> The endgame is this:
>
> Running online quizzes; only one try each question;
But here students could still use the browser print function or do a
screen capture.
> for some problems there
> are always issues with the PRT and therefore I just don't want to be bothered
> with it (for example problems with multiple in-line textline boxes inside a
> table and with images). In this particular instance we are already
> discouraging the students from printing. Hiding the PRT option would simplfy
> this and make problem creation less tedious. A possible practical solution
> is to hard code in a "No PRT" argument to the <problem>? The reason I say
> this is because if they really are unprintable then we don't really want
> anyone printing them.
I can certainly see this argument. Apparently I haven't created
fancy-enough problems :/.
> The question is: "Should all resources be functional wrt to PRT? or is there a
> category of resources which could be intended as web-only."
> Which makes me realize that I could have coded everything inside <web>
> </web>tags, but it was not obvious to me at the time that this is what I
> would always want (nor is it now).
>
> On the other hand allowing people to switch off PRT from within PARM would
> allow all users to decide whether they want PRT available in their course
> resources.
>
> Comments?
Given your arguments, I'd go with author control, so each cc wouldn't
have to determine whether or not a resource would blow up when printed.
Can resources like movies be PRTed? What happens? I've never tried.
But being of two minds, I would argue that a truly compliant resource
would be both web and print compatible. Just how compatible, I'm not
sure. ie: In print mode a simple message "Cool video clip here" or
some such would, I suppose, technically be compatible.
Or maybe a compromise. Stuff that looks "printable", ie: problems, web
pages, graphics, really should be print compatible, while other
resources, like movies, shouldn't.
I'll stop rambling now.
Todd
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