[LON-CAPA-users] Please Assist with LON-CAPA assessment module

[Lisa Hayden]

Hello Guy,

My name is Lisa Hayden and I am working with Tanieth Dale on this pilot 
project. I would first like to thank you for your quick response, as our 
deadlines for the pilot are fast approaching.

I was wondering if it might also work to edit the html source code for 
the test page by deleting the lines that reference these buttons and 
then uploading the new html file as a document for the course?

Thank you,
Lisa

Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> Hi Tanieth,
>
>   
>> We are attempting to run a pilot with LON-CAPA with the simple requirements
>> of creating an assessment and have been very impressed with the process till
>> now. We have very limited knowledge of all the functionality of LON-CAPA and
>> hope that someone could assist.
>>
>> Our concern is that when a student logs in to take the test, there are all
>> kinds of buttons they can click on to navigate away from the page.
>>
>> We do not want the students to have these various buttons (eg.CAT, EVAL and
>> more specifically PRT) Is it possible to remove these links on the
>> assessment. 
>>     
>
> There is no configuration mechanism to turn these off right now.
>
> The only means to do this would be to modify lon-capa itself, which
> should be fine for a short-term solution if this stays a standalone
> machine, but probably not a good long-term solution.
>
>
> The existance of the buttons is controlled in two locations, the file
> mydesk.tab (located in /home/httpd/LonTabs) and the perl-module
> lonmenu.pm (located in /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache) in the middle of
> the subroutine 'innerregister' near the comment 'Prepare the rest of
> the buttons'
>
> For the The PRT button can be hidden by removing the line
> s&8&3&prt.gif&prepare[_1]&printout[_1]&gopost('/adm/printout',currentURL)&Prepare a printable document
>
> in lonmenu.pm, but this would remove it for all users.
>
> For the long-term filing this as an enhancement request at
> bugs.loncapa.org we can figure out what the best solution for this
> would be.
>
>