[LON-CAPA-users] Why the label "will be reservable later" is displayed for some questions after an expired time slot?

[Stuart Raeburn]

Amos,

>
> I am not sure I understand why some questions are still tagged as "will be
> reservable later" when their associated July time slot has already passed.
>

The idea is to potentially allow future slot(s) to be reserved where a  
resource requires slot access, when the resource is still  
"completable" by the student (i.e., not past due, there are tries  
left, and it has not been answered correctly).

>
> I also noticed that those questions that are labelled as such are precisely
> the ones that the student had answered wrong.
>

Once a question is answered correctly it is no longer "completable".

Anyway, I have made some changes to the code used to determine if  
there are reservable slots for a resource for both the Course Contents  
screen and the Reservations screen.

With those changes, LON-CAPA will now use information about time  
periods when slots are to be uniquely chosen for both the consumed  
slot (now past end-date) and future (reservable) slots, when  
determining the text to display.


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

Quoting Amos Lee <lee at math.usask.ca>:

> Hi,
>
> Need some clarification on why some questions are labeled as "Reservation
> needed: will be reservable later" after the time slot has already expired.
>
> We ran our July Math Placement Test sessions on July 7th and July 9th using
> student-selectable time slots.  The next reservation for our MPT will open
> on July 25th for students to sign up for the August test sessions (Aug
> 2-6).  All our July, August and September time slots that we have created
> are within the same period where time slot is unique (no one can choose
> more than one time slot within that period).
>
> After all the July time slots have expired, I noticed that for some
> students that have attended those time slots, if they logged back in and
> clicked on [Reservations], they would see a list of Questions tagged as
> follows:
>
> Example for one student who wrote on July 7th.
> Question 1: Problem is unavailable
> Question 2: Reservation needed: will be reservable later
> Question 3: Problem is unavailable
> ...
> Question 17: Problem is unavailable
> Question 18: Reservation needed: will be reservable later
> Question 19: Reservation needed: will be reservable later
> Question 20: Problem is unavailable
> ...
> Question 24: Problem is unavailable
> Question 25: Reservation needed: will be reservable later
> Question 26: Problem is unavailable
> ...
> Question 29: Problem is unavailable
> Question 30: Reservation needed: will be reservable later
>
> I am not sure I understand why some questions are still tagged as "will be
> reservable later" when their associated July time slot has already passed.
>
> I also noticed that those questions that are labelled as such are precisely
> the ones that the student had answered wrong.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Amos Lee
> Math and Stats
> Univ of Sask
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