[LON-CAPA-users] instructor-assigned slots

[Stuart Raeburn]

Carl,

>
> Would this be solved by setting the 'time that students can no longer
> reserve' to the same as the 'slot end time'?
>

No, that is not currently supported.

The slot "helper" used to configure a slot will not allow you to set  
the "Time students can no longer reserve" to a value that is after the  
start time of the slot.

(A message will be displayed: "Reservation end time must come before  
the slot has started", if you try to do that).

In addition, the list of selectable slots displayed to a student  
excludes any slots for which the slot start time is in the past.

LON-CAPA could. however, be modified to allow an end "reservation  
date/time" after a slot's start time, and also to allow new  
reservations on slots which had already started. (The option to  
specify a "Time students can no longer reserve" is itself a relatively  
new feature -- added in LON-CAPA 2.11).


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

> I have a related 	question. In my use of slots, I left the 'time that
> students can no longer reserve blank'. However, I found that if the slot
> 'start time' passes, students can no longer access the slot to sign up, and
> they also are blocked from the resource. Thus, in order to enable them to
> access the resource, I had to delete the association of the resource and
> wait for that to propogate so that they could use the resource. Fortunately,
> this was for a computer location for an in-class assignment so it was not an
> exam.
>
> Would this be solved by setting the 'time that students can no longer
> reserve' to the same as the 'slot end time'?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl Lira
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org
> [mailto:lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of Stuart
> Raeburn
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 8:04 PM
> To: lon-capa-users at mail.lon-capa.org
> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] instructor-assigned slots
>
> Doug,
>
> To assign an instructor-assignable slot to a specific student for an exam
> you need to set the "Slots of availability [Part: 0] (available)"
> parameter at an Enclosing Map level for a particular student.
>
> However, if there are more than a handful of students you might want to
> create a group, and make those students who will be assigned to the specific
> slot members of that group. Then you would set the "Slots of availability
> [Part: 0] (available)" parameter at an Enclosing Map level for the group to
> which they belong.
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>
> Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu>:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We're using student-selected slots for students to schedule
>> themselves into online ProctorU proctored Lon-Capa exams vs.
>> face-to-face proctored Lon-Capa exams. Some students, of course, did
>>  not make the deadline for choosing slots, and the instructor does
>> not want to extend the slot deadline, so I've cloned the existing
>> student-selectable slots into exact copies that are
>> teacher-assignable slots. However, I'm having a hard time seeing how
>>  to actually assign the errant students into those slots.  I know
>> that the new slot names need to be added to Slots of Availability
>> (separated by : for more than one slot) but then wondered if the way
>>  slots are assigned is to do that with specific slots for specific
>> students -- is that how the slots are assigned for a resource for a
>> student?  Or is that added generally for the resource and in some
>> other interface the students are assigned to the slots for that
>> resource?  We're good now with the student-selected slots, but this
>> is eluding me. Thank you as always!
>>
>> Doug