[LON-CAPA-users] "lock and unlock assessments"

[Mills, Douglas G]

Good suggestions William and John but we’re looking for a solution we can put in the hands of the TAs. I know we could give them access to the parameters, but we’d prefer not to get the TAs into the parameter interface if at all possible — seems like that would open a larger can of worms.  All of these courses are large. One of them is typically 70+ sections with not sure how many TAs in the Fall semesters, so something more straightforward for the TAs would be much preferred. Our ideal scenario would be for the TA to view a list of students in their section and 10 minutes into lab click a checkbox next to each student who is not physically present in the lab with that locking the lab for that student.

We know there is the proctor password, but that would require the TA entering the password on 30+ devices. Simply announcing “today’s password is…” at the start of the lab means that students can text it to friends, so no benefit really gained.   The “lock and unlock assessments” privilege in the custom roles set up sounds promising but I suspect this is not what it does — if it DOES do what we want, we haven’t figured out how a TA exercises that power.

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


From: John Plough <jwplough at gmail.com<mailto:jwplough at gmail.com>>
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Date: Friday, February 28, 2014 at 6:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] "lock and unlock assessments"

Seems like you could hide the resource from absent students, as well.

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On Feb 28, 2014, at 6:53 PM, "William Paddock" <paddock_wa at elps.k12.mi.us<mailto:paddock_wa at elps.k12.mi.us>> wrote:

I'm not familiar with the "lock and unlock" parameter, but in situations like the one you describe, I simply change the absent students' due date to some time in the past (or open date to some time after the due date). This is similar to what you suggest the TA might do with locking. Would that take care of the issue?

Will

On Feb 28, 2014, at 5:54 PM, "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu<mailto:dmills at illinois.edu>> wrote:

HI All,

Can anyone enlighten me as to what exactly the privilege to “lock and unlock assessments” is and how one uses it?  Can it be used on a per-student level?  Use case: students are required to enter their lab data while in the lab (I.e. actually do the experiments and enter their actual data).  However, inevitably despite numerous stern warnings about failing the course if data is entered from anywhere but the lab itself, there are always a handful of students each semester who oversleep or whatever, get up panicked and start making up and entering data from their dorms. I’d love for the IP-based restrictions to be workable as that would be a wonderfully elegant solution, but at this point anyway the campus wireless is all one big pool of IP numbers (how about GPS-based restrictions? :-).  So failing that, we’re thinking if there were an easy way for a TA ten minutes into the class to take note of absent students and simply lock their labs. Can that be done with this privilege and if so, how?  I’m guessing that’s not what it’s intended for, but thought it was worth asking. Thank you!

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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