[LON-CAPA-users] Using Slots - Problem Due Date and Time Limit parameters

[Amos Lee]

Hi,

We are testing time slot control in Lon Capa 2.10.0-2011060317 (which we 
have just installed on a virtual server a couple of days ago).  The time 
limits appear to count down correctly now for each time slot.  However, I'm 
having trouble setting bounds for the end of the reservation period.

    I would like to set a deadline for reserving or changing a time slot to 
12 hours before the earliest time slot.  How do I go about that?  I tried 
setting the "End" time parameter of "Period of time slot is unique" 
appropriately:

Period of time when this slot can only be uniquely chosen:
    Start: , , : CST  or Any time
    End  : , , : CST  or Any time <-- I set this appropriately.

But I found that after the End time has passed, a student is still able to 
reserve a slot or switch from one slot to another available slot.

Thanks,
Amos Lee
Math & Stats
Univ of Sask




On 6/2/2011 3:53 PM, Stuart Raeburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> But when I tested this, the timer for student005 (who was assigned to
>> Time Slot 1) did not appear to be counting down 1800 seconds;
>
> Yes, there was a bug which meant time limits were not in effect for
> resources on which access was slot-controlled. (See:
> http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5497 )
>
> The fix for that bug is included in LON-CAPA 2.10.0. It looks as though
> the LON-CAPA server in your domain is currently running LON-CAPA 2.5.0.
>
> Stuart Raeburn MSU LON-CAPA group
>
>
>
> Quoting Amos Lee<lee@math.usask.ca>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having trouble getting the timer to count down correctly for time
>> slots. Say, I have the following scenario with two 1-hour slots:
>>
>> Time Slot 1: Start Time: Wed Jun 1 10:00:00 2011 (CST) End Time  : Wed
>> Jun 1 11:00:00 2011 (CST) Scheduled Student: student005
>>
>> Time Slot 2: Start Time: Thu Jun 2 10:00:00 2011 (CST) End Time  : Thu
>> Jun 2 11:00:00 2011 (CST) Scheduled Student: student006
>>
>> Within each time slot, I want to deliver a 30-min test as timed by
>> Lon Capa's timer after the student clicks on the Show Resource button
>> to confirm.
>>
>> In the list of resource parameters, I'm not exactly sure how to set
>> "Problem Due Date", so I set it to be the same as the End Time of
>> Time Slot 2. The parameter "Time Limit" is set to 1800 (seconds).
>>
>> But when I tested this, the timer for student005 (who was assigned to
>> Time Slot 1) did not appear to be counting down 1800 seconds; it
>> appeared to be counting down towards the End Time of Time Slot 2.
>>
>> How do I set these parameters correctly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Amos Lee Math&  Stats Univ of Sask
>>