[LON-CAPA-users] instructor-assigned slots

Mills, Douglas G dmills at illinois.edu
Wed Jul 6 19:50:40 EDT 2016


Thanks Stuart!

Doug

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> On Jul 6, 2016, at 5:58 PM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Doug,
> 
>> 
>> ...The Exam is a single multi-part problem so I'm assuming
>> "an enclosing map level" in this case can be the exam itself, right?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> If the exam consists of just one problem (albeit multi-part) then you could also set the "Slots of availability [Part: 0] (available)" parameter at a Resource level for a particular student, or at a Resource level for a group (for that specific problem).
> 
> On thing to be aware of when using groups for this is that once a student has been added to a group, then for the student's session to reflect that he/she would need to:
> 
> (a) Click the "Check for Changes" link in the Functions menu on the Courses/Roles page.
> 
> or
> 
> (b) Click the "Re-select" button for the particular course on the Courses/Roles page.
> 
> or
> 
> (c) Log-out and log-in again.
> 
> 
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
> 
> 
> Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu>:
> 
>> Thank you Stuart.  The Exam is a single multi-part problem so I'm assuming
>> "an enclosing map level" in this case can be the exam itself, right?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Doug
>> 
>> Douglas Mills
>> Director of Instructional Technology
>> Department of Chemistry
>> University of Illinois
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/5/16, 7:03 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:
>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> Douglas Mills
>>>> Director of Instructional Technology
>>>> Department of Chemistry
>>>> University of Illinois
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