[LON-CAPA-users] Access to Resource Discussions after Answer Accepted?

Mills, Douglas G dmills at illinois.edu
Mon Nov 7 11:05:47 EST 2016


Thank you Stuart!  Much appreciated as always!

Doug

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




On 11/4/16, 5:01 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,
    
    The discussend parameter (which expects a date/time) can be used to  
    permit a student to post to a discussion board attached to a resource  
    regardless of the  resource's status (e.g., "SHOW_ANSWER") for that  
    student.
    
    If you set discussend to a date in the future, then students will be  
    able to continue to post to the discussion until the discussend date  
    is reached.
    
    In the case where discussend has not been set, discussion posts cannot  
    be made if a student's status for the problem is other than  
    CAN_ANSWER, CANNOT_ANSWER, or OPEN.
    
    If a student has answered a problem correctly, then prior to the  
    answer date the resource's status for that item will be CANNOT_ANSWER,  
    if the problemstatus parameter is not explicitly set (or is set to the  
    default -- "yes"), so discussion posting will be allowed.
    
    However, if problemstatus is set to "Yes, and show correct answer if  
    they exceed the maximum number of tries.", then once the student has  
    answered correctly, then the status becomes "SHOW_ANSWER", and posting  
    by that student to the contextual discussion board is not permitted.
    
    There is another parameter -- discusshide -- which controls whether or  
    not existing posts are displayed in the case where the current user  
    may not post new discussion.
    
    
    Stuart Raeburn
    LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
    
    > Hi All,
    >
    > We are surmising that once a student has submitted a correct answer to
    > a problem that for them the discussion connected to that resource is
    > closed(?)  Is that correct? If so, is that modifiable somewhere?  I'm
    > not seeing it if so.  Thank you!
    >
    >
    > Doug
    >
    > Douglas Mills
    > Director of Instructional Technology
    > Department of Chemistry
    > University of Illinois
    
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