[LON-CAPA-users] Slots

Ray Batchelor lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 31 May 2006 13:58:13 -0700 

Thanks Todd,
   Some of those details would indeed be important to me.
I am interested in having students be able to reserve slots during which they 
would come to a specific room, and take an online test, to which access would 
also be restricted to the specific IPs of the computers in that room.   While 
the test would be proctored, we probably wouldn't use the proctor validation, 
as it would be too inconvenient when there are a significant number of people 
taking the test at the same time.  

I'll wait for news of further developments.

Ray

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 13:38, Todd Ruskell wrote:
> Ray,
>
> The slots did "work like a charm" for me.  But my use is currently
> extremely limited.  I am having students sign up for field trips, and
> created a different slot for each trip.  I set up a dummy problem and
> assigned it the slots.  That's all.  Students were, and currently still
> are, able to successfully sign up for a slot.  That's all I've done.  I
> haven't yet cared about other usually important details like properly
> opening/closing a problem, using a proctor, etc.
>
> Todd
>
> On Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:14 pm, Ray Batchelor wrote:
> > OK.  Todd and Guy,
> >                                  Does this mean that slots is already a
> > feature we can use to schedule online tests?  I had the impression that
> > there was still some functionality not yet in place.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ray
> >
> > On Wednesday 24 May 2006 14:20, Todd Ruskell wrote:
> > > Thanks Guy,
> > >
> > > It works like a charm.  Just so other's know:  the primary things for
> > > me were to make sure BOTH of the "Slots of availability . . ." parms
> > > were not set by me in the parms window, AND to set the "Use slot based
> > > access controls" to "resource", instead of yes.
> > >
> > > Todd
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 24 May 2006 12:33 pm, Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> > > > Hi Todd,
> > > >
> > > > > OK.  I've defined 2 slots:  slot1 and slot2
> > > > >
> > > > > They are both of type schedulable_student, which I assume means
> > > > > that students are allowed to do the scheduling.
> > > > >
> > > > > They have a start time and an end time a couple days in the future.
> > > > >
> > > > > Each has a maximum number of students, a proctor, and a secret
> > > > > word.
> > > > >
> > > > > All the other table entries on the "managing slots" page are empty.
> > > > > (I *think* this means I have set up students to register for slots
> > > > > at any time, and that currently, the slots are not unique)
> > > > >
> > > > > For the problem, the "Use slot based access controls" parm is set
> > > > > to "yes"
> > > > >
> > > > > For the problem, the "Slots of availability selected by student"
> > > > > parm is set to "slot1,slot2"
> > > >
> > > > This should be left blank, the student will fill this in.
> > > > (You should never modify this PARM in the normal PARM screen.)
> > > >
> > > > > For the problem, the "Slots of availability" parm is also set to
> > > > > "slot1,slot2"
> > > >
> > > > This should be left blank, as students will assign to themself a
> > > > slot. (Use this one when you want to as an instructor force a
> > > > particular slot onto a student)
> > > >
> > > > Not that this currently requires a : seperated list of slot names if
> > > > it is used. (I likely need to change that...)
> > > >
> > > > > Still, when I log in as student, I don't get a "select slot"
> > > > > screen.
> > > >
> > > > Have you
> > > > - set an opendate in the past?
> > > > - set a duedate in the future?
> > > > - navigated to the resources as the student?
> > > >    (there should be a "Sign up for time to work." button when viewing
> > > >    the resource.)
> > > >
> > > > > On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:40 am, Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Todd,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Anyway, I want to try to use slots to have students sign up for
> > > > > > > one of several field trips.  I think I've figured out how two
> > > > > > > define the slots, from the PARM page, but I'm not sure how to
> > > > > > > apply them.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Q1:  Can slots only be applied to bridge tasks?  If so, the
> > > > > > > rest of this can probably be ignored.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You can apply them to .problems in 2.1 but soemthings might act
> > > > > > oddly.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Q2:  I've tried to apply the two slots that I have to a "score
> > > > > > > upload form", to use as a placeholder.  Should this currently
> > > > > > > work, in principle?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ayup.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Q3:  Both slots should currently be open, and I've set them to
> > > > > > > "anytime" status for when students can reserve the slot.  But
> > > > > > > when I, as a student, select the resource, nothing interesting
> > > > > > > happens. As in, I don't get to choose a slot.  Any ideas?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm guessing have not modfied the 'useslots' PARM for the
> > > > > > .problem.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Additionally If you want to make the slots conflicting (students
> > > > > > must select only one) you'll need to set the 'unique period' part
> > > > > > of the slot.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Dr. Todd Ruskell
> > > > > Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics       Office:  Meyer Hall
> > > > > 326 Colorado School of Mines                     Phone:
> > > > > 303-384-2080 1523 Illinois Street                         Fax:
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-- 
Raymond J. Batchelor, PhD
LON-CAPA SFU Domain Coordinator
Senior Lecturer
Department of Chemistry
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC
Canada