[LON-CAPA-users] proctor password

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Lars,

> Thanks! -This did it. It functions well. Only problem is that the setup 
> is unintuitive - it requires 4-5 actions to set up. I'm sure I'll forget 
> how to do this between semesters. Is it documented somewhere?

In progress, should be in the next release.

> Is the way to set up a proctor password documented somewhere?

That would be part of the above.

> Would it be hard to add a password parameter to PARM? It seems like this 
> would be the natural way to password protect a folder/resource - just a 
> single action. The advantage is that PARM is intuitive, and it is 
> something that most of us are already familiar with.

Slots were generated as something differnet mainly to address some
aspects that PARm could never address in it's current state.

One aspect is they do a good job of packging together a collection of
paramters into one thing that can get assigned to a variety of
different items.

Also they can be made (as you saw) into somethign students can self
select, and thus schedule themselves into.

So they have their own features.

You description of PARM as intuitive is... uncommon. :-)

I can think about some way of doing the checkin procedure without
slots. It could make some users in some situations happy but, I think
most users will end up wanting more aspects of the slots then...


> 
> Lars.
> 
> > 
> >> Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> >>> Hi Lars,
> >>>
> >>>> 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?
> >>> To support the possibility of 'Student Schedulable' slots ( so that
> >>> the student can be presented with a list of possible slots and pick
> >>> when and where they want to do it.)
> >>>
> >>> In the case of there being no possible slots I agree the button
> >>> shouldn't show up.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure how to control this. (Detecting the existance of student
> >>> schedulable slots is likely one way, another might be to just give the
> >>> control to the instructor.)
> >>>
> >>> But currently I believe it always shows.
> >>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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