[LON-CAPA-users] Time-Limit (interval)

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Lars,

> This is great. Obviously, one has to be careful allowing the students to 
> open anything early by accident, but I assume I can prevent this with IP 
> access (acc) and hiddenresource, right?

You can't start the ticking before opendate has passed.

Also when the interval is set the student is actaully shown the
problem, they are first shown a screen that says

The resources in "<folder name>" are open for a limited time. Once you
click the 'Show Resource' button below you have <length of interval>
to complete all resources "<folder name>".

They will need to clcik the 'Show Resource' button, and click a 'Start
Timer' button in a popup window to extra confirm they really really
want to start.

But  you can if you want to use the IP acc and hidden resource to hide
the existance of the resource completely.


> 
> Lars.
> 
> Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> > Hi Lars,
> > 
> >> When does time begin ticking for the interval parameter? For example if 
> >> I have,
> >>
> >> opendate set to 5/1
> >> due date set to 5/8
> >> interval set to 3 hours
> >>
> >> Will time begin ticking when the student looks at any problem in the set 
> >> for the first time?
> > 
> > Correct.
> > 
> > Note that the duedate is a hard deadline though, If they look at the
> > problems an hour before the duedate, then they will only have 1 hour
> > to do it.
> > 
> >> If not, is there a way to have an exam open for an extended number of 
> >> days, but only allow the student to work on the set for a shorter amount 
> >> of time, like 3 hours?
> > 
> > That is exactly what the interval is there for.
> > 
> > 
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