[LON-CAPA-users] teacher-assigned vs. student-selected slots: can they be mutually exclusive

[Stuart Raeburn]

Doug,

>
> ... There does not seem to be
> any way to prevent a student in a teacher-assigned slot from also  
> selecting a student-selected slot. Am I missing something?
>

For each of the student-schedulable slots, set the start and end dates  
in the "Period of time when this slot can only be uniquely chosen"  
settings to bracket both the time period when the instructor-assigned  
slot is open, and also the time the student-schedulable slot is open.

In that case a student will thereafter not be able to make a  
reservation for the student-schedulable slot for that resource (as the  
instructor-assigned one will already be in place). If a student tries  
to make a reservation a message: "Already have a reservation" will be  
displayed.

Note:
If a student has already made a reservation for the  
student-schedulable slot before the instructor-assigned slot is  
assigned to the resource, the instructor must remove the reservation  
for Settings > Slots for the particular slot (click "Edit" for  
particular slot, and use "Remove" in the "Scheduled Students" column).  
Setting the "Slots of availability [Part: 0] (available)" does not  
currently automatically remove any prior student-selected slots for  
the same resource.

If you prefer not to set "Period of time when this slot can only be  
uniquely chosen" for the student-schedulable slot you could also use  
the "Restrict slot availability" settings for the slot to restrict use  
to particular users.

Currently, you can only indicate which users should be included, so  
you must check checkboxes for all students who are permitted to use a  
particular slot (there is no allow all except ...).

As an alternative, you could create a group of users, and then not  
assign membership for the users who should not be able to reserve.  In  
the "Restrict slot availability" settings for the slot, the list  
checkboxes below "Select sections to limit slot availability to"  
includes both sections and groups. You would check the checkbox for  
the group you created.

Note: when you change group memberships for a user, if the user is  
currently logged in, he/she must click "Check for changes" on the  
Courses/Roles screen for the group change to be in effect in the  
user's session.


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu>:

> HI All,
>
> I understand the rationale for being able to limit students to  
> selecting only one student-selectable slot within a given timeframe  
> as well as the fact that that is not needed in the case of  
> teacher-assigned slots. However, we have a use case where most of
the
> students are using student-selected slots (and can only choose one
of
> a couple of options) but SOME students -- ones taking conflict exams

> or who require special accommodations are being assigned into  
> teacher-assigned slots for the same exam.  There does not seem to be

> any way to prevent a student in a teacher-assigned slot from also  
> selecting a student-selected slot. Am I missing something?  I guess  
> in the case of a timed exam, IF a student who requires special  
> accommodations  or a conflict exam signed up for a regular slot and  
> we didn't catch it and then somehow got a sneak preview before their

> special slot time, they would have run down their available time to  
> do the exam anyway. Still, it would be nice to be able to prevent  
> such things from occurring as honest or confused mistakes.  Is that  
> possible?  OR would you recommend handling this a different way?   
> Thanks!
>
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Mills
> Director of Instructional Technology
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Illinois