[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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