[LON-CAPA-users] how to force new randomization for student

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Jay,

One option is to create an extra folder that has all the same problems. 
The challenge is hiding it so only he can see it, etc....

Mark
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Ray Batchelor wrote:

> Hi  Jay,
>              Good question.  This has been something that has come up since
> the early CAPA days.  There may be several ways to approach this and I
> believe none of them is formally instituted in either PARM or PGRD (which
> would be a good enhancement request  ;-)
>
> Guy will correct me, at this point.
>
> :-)
>
> Anyway  I can tell you a somewhat less-than-leasant workaround if you need an
> immedite  solution.
>
> Cheers,
> Ray
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 08:23, James Sullivan wrote:
>> Scenario:
>>
>>
>>
>> Deadline for assignment 1 has passed and the answers are displayed. Student
>> X comes to the instructor with medical documentation suggesting that
>> student was not able to complete assignment 1 because of some medical
>> issue. The instructor agrees to consider the extenuating circumstances and
>> extend the deadline for that particular student. However, since the answers
>> for the version of the problem that Student X had before the deadline have
>> been displayed, a new random version of the problem should be generated as
>> well.
>>
>>
>>
>> Extending the deadline and/or number of tries is easy. How does the
>> instructor force a new random version of the problem to be generated?
>> Extending the deadline and/or doing a "reset_status" in the grading rubric
>> seems to have no effect. Is there some trick to making this happen?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> James M. Sullivan, Assistant Professor
>> <mailto:jmsullivan@vcu.edu> jmsullivan@vcu.edu
>>
>> Department of Physics                                    Virginia
>> Commonwealth University
>>
>> tel: 804/828-6343
>> fax: 804/828-7073
>>
>>
>>
>> 1020 W. Main St.
>>
>> PO BOX 842000
>>
>> Richmond, VA 23284-2000
>>
>>
>>
>> *
>>
>> "If you can drive a nail, and if you have any nails to drive, drive them."
>>
>>           - H. D. Thoureau, 1850
>>
>> *
>
> -- 
> Raymond J. Batchelor, PhD
> LON-CAPA SFU Domain Coordinator
> Senior Lecturer
> Department of Chemistry
> Simon Fraser University
> Burnaby, BC
> Canada
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