[LON-CAPA-users] checking for SHOW_ANSWER status in a Sequence Conditional?

[Mills, Douglas G]

Thank you Stuart. There is always a way in Lon-Capa!
 
Doug

 

Douglas Mills

Director of Instructional Technology

Department of Chemistry

University of Illinois


 

On 12/11/18, 5:07 PM, "LON-CAPA-users on behalf of Raeburn, Stuart" <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

    Doug,
    
    Use conditions of the following type (for each link between resources in your conditional sequence)
    
    ((&EXT('resource.0.answerdate','alias') > 0) && 
    (&EXT('system.time') > &EXT('resource.0.answerdate','alias')))
    
    with "Blocking this link if false" checked, where alias is the appropriate mapalias for each problem for which the answerdate should be checked.
    
    If you already have an existing condition for each link of type: "Blocking this link if false", you could use ||  (i.e. OR) between the two conditions, such that the link will be unblocked if either the existing condition, or this new one, (based on answerdate), evaluates to true.
    
    Stuart Raeburn
    LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
    
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    From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Mills, Douglas G <dmills at illinois.edu>
    Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 2:03 PM
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    Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] checking for SHOW_ANSWER status in a Sequence Conditional?
    
    Hi All,
    
    I know that within a problem you can use $external::datestatus to check for "SHOW_ANSWER" status. Is there any way to do this within a conditional in a sequence?  I'm thinking there must be a way to allow students who did not complete a conditional sequence to see all the parts of the sequence once answers become available but I'm not finding a way to embed $external::datestatus successfully into the conditional in a sequence and I'm not seeing another way to check for that. Guidance as always appreciated!
    
    Doug
    
    Douglas Mills
    Director of Instructional Technology
    Department of Chemistry
    University of Illinois
    
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