[LON-CAPA-users] Section specific parameter settings when cloning

[Ray Batchelor]

So.... student-specific parameters would NOT be cloned, but Section
and Group specific parameters ARE cloned..

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Ray Batchelor <batchelo@sfu.ca> wrote:
>  Lars,
>
> I don't know about your version of loncapa, but from my experience,
> "students" are NEVER cloned, just  content, parameters,  group
> definitions, conditions.
>
> i.e the couse is complete except there are no students enrolled yet.
>
>
> Thus if you have, say, due dates set for section "D100" in the old
> course, you will have all those same parameter settings in the new
> course.
>
> What I meant was that, if there is no student enrolled in "D100" in
> the new course, then the parameter interface will not offer you "D100"
> in the "Section" dropbox.  So, enroll somebody.
>
> I would say:
>  Clone your course (taking care to specify an appropriate number of
> days to add to the old date parameters ) then, in the NEW course,
> enroll somebody in a section with the same designator as in the old
> course (such as my "D100").
>
> After you have someone enrolled in the sections then you will be able
> to choose, view and modify the parameters specific to that section in
> the PARM interface.
>
> Ray
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Lars Jensen <ljensen@tmcc.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Ray,
>>
>> This is strange. I'm using the 2.1 RC2 version of Lon-capa. I just
>> cloned a course from one a year old one, and during the cloning I
>> entered a student into an existing section (in the original course)
>> anticipating that the section would be re-created in the cloned course
>> and the student put in it. Neither the section, not the student turned
>> up to be in the cloned version of the course.
>>
>> Are you saying that if I had waited putting in the student until
>> later, then the section would have been created?
>>
>> Lars.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Ray Batchelor <batchelo@sfu.ca> wrote:
>>> Hi Lars,
>>> In my experience they ARE cloned.  But if you don't have any student
>>> enrolled in a particular section (as designated in loncapa) then it
>>> will not be offered in the parameters interface dropboxes.
>>>
>>> After cloning a couse, I always enroll students before I try to set parameters.
>>> You can, of course, enroll them so that they don't get access until
>>> sometime in the future, if you want.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Lars Jensen <ljensen@mail.tmcc.edu> wrote:
>>>> Hi Stuart,
>>>>
>>>> Are sections and section specific parameters cloned when cloning a
>>>> course? This doesn't seem to be the case.
>>>>
>>>> Another related issue: It seems that if I add a student to a section
>>>> when first cloning the course - the student is not added to the course
>>>> at all.
>>>>
>>>> Lars.
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>>>
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Raymond J. Batchelor, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC
Canada
V5A 1S6