[LON-CAPA-users] access to Time Interval parameter?
Stuart Raeburn
raeburn at msu.edu
Thu Jan 30 12:58:13 EST 2014
Doug,
> First off, I've lost track -- is there now a countdown timer
> available for display to students in Lon-Capa for timed quizzes and
> such? I recall hearing talk of one but am not seeing it at this
> point. Still coming?
A countdown timer (which uses jQuery.countdown) will be available in
2.11.0 (see: http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5891 ).
A 2.11 release candidate (2.11.0.RC2), which includes the countdown
timer, is installed in the LON-CAPA testdrive cluster:
https://testdrive.loncapa.org
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu>:
> HI All,
>
> First off, I've lost track -- is there now a countdown timer
> available for display to students in Lon-Capa for timed quizzes and
> such? I recall hearing talk of one but am not seeing it at this
> point. Still coming?
>
> Secondly then, if this is not yet built in, I implemented a
> count-down timer a couple years ago in JavaScript which seems to
> work well but at this point requires that the instructor set a
> variable to match the time limit set in the parameters for the quiz.
> One more thing for the instructor to do, and in the case where a
> given group of students have permission for extended access to the
> quiz, this requires as set up that there be a second instance of the
> quiz so that the length of time variable can be set to match the
> extended amount of time for those students. How sweet it would be if
> there were a way to access the value of the parameter set in
> Lon-Capa so that the JavaScript timer automatically matched the time
> limit set there. I'm not seeing it in the list I always work from at
>
> https://s10.lite.msu.edu/res/msu/albertel/test/ext_examples.problem#0
>
> but I'm not assuming that that means it doesn't exist. Does this
> variable exist in such a way that it can be accessed via an EXT()
> function or something? Thanks!
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Mills
> Director of Instructional Technologies
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Illinois
> dmills at illinois.edu<mailto:dmills at illinois.edu>
> (217) 244-5739
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