[LON-CAPA-users] proctor password

Lars Jensen lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:50:50 -0700


Hi Guy,

When I do the below, a student who accesses a resource in the folder 
just sees a button "Sign up for time to work." (And when the button is 
clicked lon-capa states "No available times.")

Why does this button pop up?

Lars.

Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
>> Is it possible to set a proctor password for a folder of problems 
>> (homework set/exam) for a student? I tried to do this with slots, but I 
>> wasn't able to...
> 
> Yes, you should be able to do this using slots.
> 
> The process should be
> 
> - create the slot
>    - PARM -> Mange Course Slots -> Create A New Slot
>    - Fill in the information, From what you say here, I'm guessing you
>      want an instructor assigned slot
> 
> - nav to a resource in the folder
> 
> - click on PPRM and set folder wide
>     - Open Date, Due Date, Answer Date (The opendate and duedate
>     should be at least a large a scope as the dates on the slot)
> 
>     - "Use slot based access control" to 
>       "Yes, and the scope of student selected slot is the enclosing
>       map/folder. When checking in, all resources in the map/folder
>       are checked in.."
>     - "Slots of availability" to the name of the slot you created
> 
> 
> When Viewing the problem after the open date but before the slot's
> start time, you will see the text
> 
> "Not open to be viewed, Will be next available: <description text that
> you set on the slot>"
> 
> 
> - You can modify any aspects of a slot at any time by going through
>   PARM -> Mange Course Slots and clicking the Edit link next to the
>   slot's listing in the table. 
> 
> 
> - If you have created multiple slots, you can have all of these be
>   available for use by listing them in the 
>    "Slots of availability" as a colon separated list
>   Students will be allowed to only use one of these slots. Once they
>   are checked in they will need to complete the problems.
> 
> 
> 
>