[LON-CAPA-users] Collaboration tag?

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Brew,


> OK, I have been playing with the maxcollaborators parameter. Pretty cool.
> 
> 1) It only seems to affect Essay and DropBox problems. Is there a way to
> turn it on for other problem types? I tried doing a parameter statement in
> the problem, no luck, although I am guessing at the options.

Currently no. This only works for problems where it is being hand
graded.

(The bug requesting this feature to be extended to other problem types
would be http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1673 )

> 2) Logging in as Bubba, the Navigate Contents shows he has completed the
> problem; good. When he looks at the problem, it just says he was correct
> (Helga's page showed the completed essay). There is no indication that
> Helga's page shows the answer, and the collaborated answer is not shown. Is
> there some way Bubba can see the answer (or at least that it is in Helga's
> area)?

Nope. He has to bother Helga as of right now.


> This is very close to what I need, except that the other response types
> don't use it. Any possibility of getting this in the other responses?

Always the possiblity.

Let me take a look at what it'd entail.

> 
> brew
> 
> -----lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org wrote: -----
> 
> To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
> From: Guy Albertelli II <guy@albertelli.com>
> Sent by: lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org
> Date: 07/30/2007 06:14PM
> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Collaboration tag?
> 
> Hi Brew,
> 
> > A vicious rumor :) claims that there is some type of
> > <collaboration> tag in LonCapa.
> 
> No tag rather just:
> 
> > I found a reference to Maximum Number of Collaborators, which
> > apparently is a parameter (PPRM) for an essay question only.
> 
> 
> > Is there some other collaborator tag? Has anyone used it? My
> > situation: I am putting labs online in LonCapa. New York
> > State requires we keep the labs for a period of time, for auditing
> > purposes. So, when students work in pairs (typical situation), Fred
> > logs in to LonCapa, then he and Sally work questions, enter data,
> > etc. Then, Sally has to log in later and re-enter everything under
> > her own account.
> >
> > I am looking for a way that the LonCapa
> > answers are somehow credited to both Fred and Sally for grading
> > purposes. In addition, both Fred and Sally could go to her
> > Navigate Contents and pull up the resulting completed
> > problems.
> 
> The collaborators PPRM when flipped on, adds the ability for Fred when
> submitting his answer to an essay problem to specify that sally should
> also receive credit. When grading this will be pointed out to you and
> will assign the correct credit.
> 
> Grading also detects the  if Fred says Sally should get credit, but
> Sally also goes ahead and submits her own answer.
> 
> 
> It doesn't however save the answer fred submitted to Sally's record
> (only that Sally's answer was submitted by fred) so Sally would need
> to bug Fred to see what they submitted again.
> 
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