[LON-CAPA-users] Questions on Slots

[Mills, Douglas G]

Thank you as always, Stuart. Immensely helpful.

Doug

Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technology
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois







On 6/30/15, 1:45 PM, "lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org on behalf
of Stuart Raeburn" <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of
raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

>Hi Doug,
>
>> I'm not finding much documentation on Slots, so if it's out there,
>> can someone point me in the right direction?
>
>To find a number of posts to the LON-CAPA mailing lists over the years
>to do with slots, visit the mailing list search page:
>
>http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/swish.cgi
>
>(referenced in section 2.2 of the PDF versions of both the course
>coordination manual and the authoring manual -- "Where to Find
>Additional Help")
>
>and search using the term: Slots
>
>> (1) To create slots via csv file upload, what needs to be in the csv
>>  file?  Is there a sample file somewhere?
>
>To find out what needs to be in there create a csv file (e.g.,
>slotdefs.csv containing:
>
>examone,dmills:uiuc
>
>Then log-in to a course as Course Coordinator, and use:
>Settings > Slots > Upload Slot List
>
>Click "Browse" to locate the slotdefs.csv file and click "Next".
>In the Functions box click "Reverse Association".
>
>This will show you a table with a list of attributes you might
>associate with columns from your CSV file.  (For the two column file,
>examone might be the Slot name, and dmills:uiuc might be the "List of
>proctor ids".
>
>If you will upload multiple proctor IDs, use a comma separator, but
>enclose the entry in quotes.
>
>The attributes supported for CSV upload are:
>
>Slot name
>Type of slot
>Start Time of slot
>End Time of slot
>Reservation Start Time
>Reservation End Time
>Message when reservation changed
>IP or DNS restriction
>List of proctor ids
>Slot Description
>Maximum number of reservations
>Resource Restriction
>Date range of slot exclusion
>Secret word proctor uses to validate
>Sections slot is restricted to
>Users slot is restricted to
>
>> (2) How do you connect a given resource to a given set of potential
>>slots?
>
>Display the resource, and click on "Content Settings".
>Set the parameter: "Use slot based access controls" (useslots) to one
>of the "Yes" options.
>
>If you have created student-schedulable slots, for which the start
>date and end date have yet to be reached, then students will be able
>to self-schedule access to resource(s) which have useslots set to one
>of the "Yes" options, using one of those slots.
>
>If you have created instructor-assignable slots, then you can click
>the "Slots of availability" (available) parameter, and enter the name
>of the slot (or a : separated list of slot names, if more than one is
>to be assigned).
>
>> (3) What is the function of the "secret word" ?
>
>This can be entered on the Proctor Validation screen in the "Password"
>field,  by the Proctor instead of needing to enter the proctor's own
>LON-CAPA password.
>
>The Proctor Validation screen is displayed when a student attempts to
>access a resource with slot-based control between the start date/time
>and end date/time for the slot being used for the resource, if not
>previously checked into that slot by the proctor.
>
>> (4) In setting up the slots, there are options for "Period of Time
>> when this slot can only be uniquely chosen"  -- the meaning of this
>> and what it does is not clear to us.
>
>Use this to ensure that a student does not reserve multiple slots in a
>given time period.
>
>For example, say you have five labs available in a given week, but
>each student should only attend one of them, to complete a particular
>assignment.  You would create a student-schedulable slot for each lab
>opportunity, and set the "Period of Time when this slot can only be
>uniquely chosen" (also known as "Date range of slot exclusion") to
>cover the entire week, for each of the five slots.
>
>This would mean that a student could only hold a reservation for one
>of the five at any time, and if he/she wanted to attend at a different
>time from the one he/she had currently reserved, would need to drop
>the current one in order to be able to reserve another.
>
>Stuart Raeburn
>LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu>:
>
>> HI All,
>>
>> I'm not finding much documentation on Slots, so if it's out there,
>> can someone point me in the right direction?
>>
>> Here are some questions we are uncertain about:
>>
>> (1) To create slots via csv file upload, what needs to be in the csv
>>  file?  Is there a sample file somewhere?
>>
>> (2) How do you connect a given resource to a given set of potential
>> slots? We know there are the two interfaces -- the slot creation
>> interface and the resource parameter interface, but is there
>> somewhere where you say that Exam 1 can be taken in these particular
>>  slots and no others?  Is that simply a byproduct of when Exam 1
>> opens and closes and the slots that are available in that timeframe?
>>   Or is there something else somewhere that helps control that?
>>
>> (3) What is the function of the "secret word" ?  In my testing I
>> found that if I assigned a proctor from the course, I wasn't seeing
>> that there was any need for the secret word. I had imagined that
>> perhaps a blank in which to enter the secret word would appear when
>> a student attempted to access a resource and an onsite (or online in
>>  a case like ProctorU) proctor would type the word in for the
>> student  and the student would continue from there.
>>
>> (4) In setting up the slots, there are options for "Period of Time
>> when this slot can only be uniquely chosen"  -- the meaning of this
>> and what it does is not clear to us.
>>
>> Thanks as always!
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> Douglas Mills
>> Director of Instructional Technology
>> Department of Chemistry
>> University of Illinois
>
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