From raeburn at msu.edu  Mon Apr  1 09:12:17 2019
From: raeburn at msu.edu (Raeburn, Stuart)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 13:12:17 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop Registration Open
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Hello,

Registration for the 2019 LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop is now available.

https://support.loncapa.org/events/conf2019/

Stuart Raeburn
on behalf of the LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

From raeburn at msu.edu  Wed Apr  3 10:49:48 2019
From: raeburn at msu.edu (Raeburn, Stuart)
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 14:49:48 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] .sty file magic?
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Doug,

In course context all files for which the content handler in LON-CAPA is either lonxml.pm or lonhomework.pm have access to styles defined in a published .css file set via a cssfile parameter, made applicable to the current resource.

Those files include uploaded or published files with an html, htm, xhtml, xhtm, or xml extension, and published resources with a task, problem, exam, or survey extension (or indeed the "simpleproblem" template item in a course).

Those same files will also be impacted by styles defined in any published .sty files associated with a course via Settings > Course Settings >  Display (Display of resources checked), and included in a comma separated list of paths to style files entered in the "Default XML style file" textbox.

Standard LON-CAPA pages such as /adm/navmaps (for a Course Contents listing) do not currently include links to published .css files, and do not support modification (based on target and tag) using a published .sty file. 

I have added an enhancement request 
(see: bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6904 ) to add a course setting to allow a Course Coordinator to choose which columns should be displayed in the Contents listing. (The "Due in less than 24 hours" warning is in the "long_status" column).

On a related note, LON-CAPA 2.12 will include the ability to suppress menu links to, and display of /adm/navmaps in specific contexts, i.e., the Placement Test course container, and when LON-CAPA is launched as an LTI Provider, (when the LTI scope is a folder, or a single resource).

Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

________________________________________
From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Mills, Douglas G <dmills at illinois.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 2:58:29 PM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
Cc: Mills, Douglas G
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] .sty file magic?

HI All,

I'm probably in over my head on this one, but I'm looking at a very nice sty file example and attempting to work from that to create a sty file that simply inserts a style sheet that will not display the remaining time on a timed assessment on the content page.

I know that doesn't sound like a very good idea, but the use is very specific. We are experimenting with a stand-alone instance of Lon-Capa as an exam server. The testing facility we are using likes their proctors, not the LMS, to be in charge of the time, so ideally perhaps we would not use a timer at all for these exams. However, there are a couple of logistical reasons that push the user of the timer for these. I have hidden all evidence of the timer on the problem page itself using css, but as far as I know (and think I've been told) there is no "natural" way to attach a style sheet to the contents page.  Because the only thing in these instances of the course are the exams themselves, it looks to me like the following should hide the time remaining information that displays once the timer has been started:

<style type="text/css">
td span[title="Due in less than 24 hours!"]{display:none;}
</style>

However, so far my feeble attempts to get that inserted into the contents page via a sty file are coming up empty. I added some more obvious css into my attempted style file injection that have no effect either, so I'm guessing I'm failing so far to get the style code inserted into that (or any other) page.

If it can't be done it's not the end of the world, but there are so few things that can't be done in Lon-Capa, I thought it was worth asking about.  Thanks!

Doug

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

From dmills at illinois.edu  Wed Apr  3 11:25:34 2019
From: dmills at illinois.edu (Mills, Douglas G)
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 15:25:34 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] .sty file magic?
Message-ID: <4A1C7264-A016-47EC-A282-E1BDA9B337B2@illinois.edu>

Great!  Thank you Stuart.

Also somewhat related, what is the status of deep linking? One of our upcoming scenarios involves using another campus LMS LTI integration with ProctorTrack for authentication with a call back to Lon-Capa to take an exam. How sweet it would be with SSO in place to land the student directly on the exam page rather than on the Lon-Capa courses page.

 Thanks,
Doug

 

Douglas Mills

Director of Instructional Technology

Department of Chemistry

University of Illinois


 

?On 4/3/19, 9:51 AM, "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,
    
    In course context all files for which the content handler in LON-CAPA is either lonxml.pm or lonhomework.pm have access to styles defined in a published .css file set via a cssfile parameter, made applicable to the current resource.
    
    Those files include uploaded or published files with an html, htm, xhtml, xhtm, or xml extension, and published resources with a task, problem, exam, or survey extension (or indeed the "simpleproblem" template item in a course).
    
    Those same files will also be impacted by styles defined in any published .sty files associated with a course via Settings > Course Settings >  Display (Display of resources checked), and included in a comma separated list of paths to style files entered in the "Default XML style file" textbox.
    
    Standard LON-CAPA pages such as /adm/navmaps (for a Course Contents listing) do not currently include links to published .css files, and do not support modification (based on target and tag) using a published .sty file. 
    
    I have added an enhancement request 
    (see: bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6904 ) to add a course setting to allow a Course Coordinator to choose which columns should be displayed in the Contents listing. (The "Due in less than 24 hours" warning is in the "long_status" column).
    
    On a related note, LON-CAPA 2.12 will include the ability to suppress menu links to, and display of /adm/navmaps in specific contexts, i.e., the Placement Test course container, and when LON-CAPA is launched as an LTI Provider, (when the LTI scope is a folder, or a single resource).
    
    Stuart Raeburn
    LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
    
    ________________________________________
    From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Mills, Douglas G <dmills at illinois.edu>
    Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 2:58:29 PM
    To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
    Cc: Mills, Douglas G
    Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] .sty file magic?
    
    HI All,
    
    I'm probably in over my head on this one, but I'm looking at a very nice sty file example and attempting to work from that to create a sty file that simply inserts a style sheet that will not display the remaining time on a timed assessment on the content page.
    
    I know that doesn't sound like a very good idea, but the use is very specific. We are experimenting with a stand-alone instance of Lon-Capa as an exam server. The testing facility we are using likes their proctors, not the LMS, to be in charge of the time, so ideally perhaps we would not use a timer at all for these exams. However, there are a couple of logistical reasons that push the user of the timer for these. I have hidden all evidence of the timer on the problem page itself using css, but as far as I know (and think I've been told) there is no "natural" way to attach a style sheet to the contents page.  Because the only thing in these instances of the course are the exams themselves, it looks to me like the following should hide the time remaining information that displays once the timer has been started:
    
    <style type="text/css">
    td span[title="Due in less than 24 hours!"]{display:none;}
    </style>
    
    However, so far my feeble attempts to get that inserted into the contents page via a sty file are coming up empty. I added some more obvious css into my attempted style file injection that have no effect either, so I'm guessing I'm failing so far to get the style code inserted into that (or any other) page.
    
    If it can't be done it's not the end of the world, but there are so few things that can't be done in Lon-Capa, I thought it was worth asking about.  Thanks!
    
    Doug
    
    Douglas Mills
    Director of Instructional Technology
    Department of Chemistry
    University of Illinois
    _______________________________________________
    LON-CAPA-users mailing list
    LON-CAPA-users at mail.lon-capa.org
    http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
    


From sshunnic at vcu.edu  Thu Apr  4 22:15:14 2019
From: sshunnic at vcu.edu (Sally S Hunnicutt)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 22:15:14 -0400
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Odd issue: Answers available for every open
 problem in course for Students, but not Course Coordinator
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References: <2C6C6C3AF1C3624B96B10D9F7FC0B93B6504C02C@CAE145EMBP03.ds.sc.edu>
 <4C058EEF-9029-40B8-9A06-7E75C6FB1130@msu.edu>
 <2C6C6C3AF1C3624B96B10D9F7FC0B93B6504C19B@CAE145EMBP03.ds.sc.edu>
 <95071A0F-F431-4A05-98A8-BE272A9C6B1D@msu.edu>
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Good evening,

We are having an issue with one course. Every problem in the course shows
the answer available for students. For the course coordinator, the problems
do not show the answer - the answer can still be input. This happens for
practice problems and regular problems. Specifically, we have folders with
practice type problems from earlier in the semester. For the course
coordinator, the new problem variation brings up a new version of the
problem and no answers showing. For the student, new problem variation
immediately gives the correct answer with no option for entering an answer.

When I look at the parameters, each looks good with the correct dates and
types of questions, with everything seemingly entered in the correct table
cell. Prior to this week, we had no issues.

Has anyone seen this issue or have any ideas to try?

Sally Hunnicutt
VCU Department of Chemistry
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From raeburn at msu.edu  Fri Apr  5 06:18:37 2019
From: raeburn at msu.edu (Raeburn, Stuart)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 10:18:37 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Odd issue: Answers available for every open
 problem in course for Students, but not Course Coordinator
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References: <2C6C6C3AF1C3624B96B10D9F7FC0B93B6504C02C@CAE145EMBP03.ds.sc.edu>
 <4C058EEF-9029-40B8-9A06-7E75C6FB1130@msu.edu>
 <2C6C6C3AF1C3624B96B10D9F7FC0B93B6504C19B@CAE145EMBP03.ds.sc.edu>
 <95071A0F-F431-4A05-98A8-BE272A9C6B1D@msu.edu>,
 <CANPE2mh9KaJ5p0KXDrSr97c-fjtB3hS56Cru_Q8RggkiVJMVCA@mail.gmail.com>
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Sally,

One explanation for what you describe would be if a due date and an answer date were both set to a date at the start of this week for specific sections, at course level, i.e., in Content Settings, in table mode, with 
a section selected in the Additional Display Specification box, there would be dates set in the In course (general)  table cells for that section (at the right side of the table).  

Settings > Content Settings > "Modify Resource Parameters - Overview Mode" will show all parameters set in a course (including any inherited from a cloned course, if the course had been created by cloning an existing one).

Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

________________________________________
From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Sally S Hunnicutt <sshunnic at vcu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:15 PM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Odd issue: Answers available for every open problem in course for Students, but not Course Coordinator

Good evening,

We are having an issue with one course. Every problem in the course shows the answer available for students. For the course coordinator, the problems do not show the answer - the answer can still be input. This happens for practice problems and regular problems. Specifically, we have folders with practice type problems from earlier in the semester. For the course coordinator, the new problem variation brings up a new version of the problem and no answers showing. For the student, new problem variation immediately gives the correct answer with no option for entering an answer.

When I look at the parameters, each looks good with the correct dates and types of questions, with everything seemingly entered in the correct table cell. Prior to this week, we had no issues.

Has anyone seen this issue or have any ideas to try?

Sally Hunnicutt
VCU Department of Chemistry

From raeburn at msu.edu  Fri Apr  5 07:31:40 2019
From: raeburn at msu.edu (Raeburn, Stuart)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 11:31:40 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] .sty file magic?
In-Reply-To: <4A1C7264-A016-47EC-A282-E1BDA9B337B2@illinois.edu>
References: <4A1C7264-A016-47EC-A282-E1BDA9B337B2@illinois.edu>
Message-ID: <SN1PR12MB2509ECB68B7640FE5C7AF008B6510@SN1PR12MB2509.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

Doug,

>
> How sweet it would be with SSO in place to land the student directly on the exam page rather than on the 
> Lon-Capa courses page.
>

A URL of loncapa.msu.edu/adm/roles?role=$role&symb=$symb
replacing $role with st./$domain/$courseid, and $symb with the unique identifier for the resource (available from: Course Editor > Content Utilities > List Resource Identifiers) works at MSU with the SSO service in use here.  (See: bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3987 )

However, use of a more elegant short url of the form: /tiny/$domain/$key, where $domain is course domain, and $key is a unique six character key has now been implemented. (The tiny urls in a course are managed via: Course Editor > Content Utilities > "Display/Set Shortened URLs for Deep-linking").

There are three enhancement requests in bugs.loncapa.org, all with a target milestone set to 2.12, related to the use of deep linking to a specific resource or folder in a LON-CAPA course.

For more information see:
bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6400 (Tiny URL for deep linking)
bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6906 (Option for LON-CAPA load balancer to record offload node)
bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6907 (Content in a course can be set to be deep-link only)

The state of both 6400 and 6906 is currently set to resolved, whereas 6907 is set to assigned (and is 95% complete).

The "deep-link only" functionality (bug 6907) is flagged for 2.12, because if it is enabled in a course, selecting a role in the course will require that the user session is hosted on a 2.12 LON-CAPA server/VM.  

As usual that is enforced by an entry in the /home/httpd/lonTabs/releaseslist.xml file, which in this case is:
<parameter name="deeplink" valuematch="on">2.12</parameter>

Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

________________________________________
From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Mills, Douglas G <dmills at illinois.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:25 AM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
Cc: Mills, Douglas G
Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] .sty file magic?

Great!  Thank you Stuart.

Also somewhat related, what is the status of deep linking? One of our upcoming scenarios involves using another campus LMS LTI integration with ProctorTrack for authentication with a call back to Lon-Capa to take an exam. How sweet it would be with SSO in place to land the student directly on the exam page rather than on the Lon-Capa courses page.

 Thanks,
Doug



Douglas Mills

Director of Instructional Technology

Department of Chemistry

University of Illinois




?On 4/3/19, 9:51 AM, "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,

    In course context all files for which the content handler in LON-CAPA is either lonxml.pm or lonhomework.pm have access to styles defined in a published .css file set via a cssfile parameter, made applicable to the current resource.

    Those files include uploaded or published files with an html, htm, xhtml, xhtm, or xml extension, and published resources with a task, problem, exam, or survey extension (or indeed the "simpleproblem" template item in a course).

    Those same files will also be impacted by styles defined in any published .sty files associated with a course via Settings > Course Settings >  Display (Display of resources checked), and included in a comma separated list of paths to style files entered in the "Default XML style file" textbox.

    Standard LON-CAPA pages such as /adm/navmaps (for a Course Contents listing) do not currently include links to published .css files, and do not support modification (based on target and tag) using a published .sty file.

    I have added an enhancement request
    (see: bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6904 ) to add a course setting to allow a Course Coordinator to choose which columns should be displayed in the Contents listing. (The "Due in less than 24 hours" warning is in the "long_status" column).

    On a related note, LON-CAPA 2.12 will include the ability to suppress menu links to, and display of /adm/navmaps in specific contexts, i.e., the Placement Test course container, and when LON-CAPA is launched as an LTI Provider, (when the LTI scope is a folder, or a single resource).

    Stuart Raeburn
    LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

    ________________________________________
    From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Mills, Douglas G <dmills at illinois.edu>
    Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 2:58:29 PM
    To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
    Cc: Mills, Douglas G
    Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] .sty file magic?

    HI All,

    I'm probably in over my head on this one, but I'm looking at a very nice sty file example and attempting to work from that to create a sty file that simply inserts a style sheet that will not display the remaining time on a timed assessment on the content page.

    I know that doesn't sound like a very good idea, but the use is very specific. We are experimenting with a stand-alone instance of Lon-Capa as an exam server. The testing facility we are using likes their proctors, not the LMS, to be in charge of the time, so ideally perhaps we would not use a timer at all for these exams. However, there are a couple of logistical reasons that push the user of the timer for these. I have hidden all evidence of the timer on the problem page itself using css, but as far as I know (and think I've been told) there is no "natural" way to attach a style sheet to the contents page.  Because the only thing in these instances of the course are the exams themselves, it looks to me like the following should hide the time remaining information that displays once the timer has been started:

    <style type="text/css">
    td span[title="Due in less than 24 hours!"]{display:none;}
    </style>

    However, so far my feeble attempts to get that inserted into the contents page via a sty file are coming up empty. I added some more obvious css into my attempted style file injection that have no effect either, so I'm guessing I'm failing so far to get the style code inserted into that (or any other) page.

    If it can't be done it's not the end of the world, but there are so few things that can't be done in Lon-Capa, I thought it was worth asking about.  Thanks!

    Doug

    Douglas Mills
    Director of Instructional Technology
    Department of Chemistry
    University of Illinois
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From sshunnic at vcu.edu  Fri Apr  5 10:19:03 2019
From: sshunnic at vcu.edu (Sally S Hunnicutt)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 10:19:03 -0400
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Odd issue: Answers available for every open
 problem in course for Students, but not Course Coordinator
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References: <2C6C6C3AF1C3624B96B10D9F7FC0B93B6504C02C@CAE145EMBP03.ds.sc.edu>
 <4C058EEF-9029-40B8-9A06-7E75C6FB1130@msu.edu>
 <2C6C6C3AF1C3624B96B10D9F7FC0B93B6504C19B@CAE145EMBP03.ds.sc.edu>
 <95071A0F-F431-4A05-98A8-BE272A9C6B1D@msu.edu>
 <CANPE2mh9KaJ5p0KXDrSr97c-fjtB3hS56Cru_Q8RggkiVJMVCA@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks, that fixed it.

Sally

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 6:21 AM Raeburn, Stuart <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

> Sally,
>
> One explanation for what you describe would be if a due date and an answer
> date were both set to a date at the start of this week for specific
> sections, at course level, i.e., in Content Settings, in table mode, with
> a section selected in the Additional Display Specification box, there
> would be dates set in the In course (general)  table cells for that section
> (at the right side of the table).
>
> Settings > Content Settings > "Modify Resource Parameters - Overview Mode"
> will show all parameters set in a course (including any inherited from a
> cloned course, if the course had been created by cloning an existing one).
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
> ________________________________________
> From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf
> of Sally S Hunnicutt <sshunnic at vcu.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:15 PM
> To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
> Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Odd issue: Answers available for every open
> problem in course for Students, but not Course Coordinator
>
> Good evening,
>
> We are having an issue with one course. Every problem in the course shows
> the answer available for students. For the course coordinator, the problems
> do not show the answer - the answer can still be input. This happens for
> practice problems and regular problems. Specifically, we have folders with
> practice type problems from earlier in the semester. For the course
> coordinator, the new problem variation brings up a new version of the
> problem and no answers showing. For the student, new problem variation
> immediately gives the correct answer with no option for entering an answer.
>
> When I look at the parameters, each looks good with the correct dates and
> types of questions, with everything seemingly entered in the correct table
> cell. Prior to this week, we had no issues.
>
> Has anyone seen this issue or have any ideas to try?
>
> Sally Hunnicutt
> VCU Department of Chemistry
> _______________________________________________
> LON-CAPA-users mailing list
> LON-CAPA-users at mail.lon-capa.org
> http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
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From leebynum at illinois.edu  Fri Apr  5 12:43:44 2019
From: leebynum at illinois.edu (Bynum, Lee Hamilton)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 16:43:44 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users]  Linked PDF access after reentering course
Message-ID: <DM6PR11MB2954C2A43CC647BBDC51B9C1BA510@DM6PR11MB2954.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

Hello Everyone,

I am looking into an odd case that I'm hoping for some insight into.

Out of hundreds of students taking an exam we have two instances of access being denied to a linked pdf.  The link eventually worked for both students, within about six minutes for one.  A commonality between the cases is that they appear to have reentered the course just prior to the pdf being unavailable for them.  It is unclear if this is another symptom or the cause.

At least one of the students encountered the following message:

"Access  : Browse resources
Resource : The PDF
Action : Access Denied

Sorry ...
This action is currently not authorized."

I am also seeing access denied messages for the resource/user combination in ssl_error_log

My current theory is that the students somehow reinitialized their role in the course while taking the exam.  This then resulted in them temporarily not having access to the pdf resource.


Potential complications:


-          This course has it's resources' links encrypted.

-          This course is restricting access by ip address using the next version's restricted list.

-          The resource being linked to is in the authoring space rather than the course space.  This doesn't normally cause any trouble, but I'm listing it in case it interacts with something else.

Thank you in advance,

Lee
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From kortemey at msu.edu  Tue Apr 16 10:40:54 2019
From: kortemey at msu.edu (Kortemeyer, Gerd)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:40:54 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] 2019 LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop
Message-ID: <F74039A4-DF6D-492D-9D4C-593751A3960F@msu.edu>

Hi,

If you plan on joining us for the 2019 LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop at Illinois,

https://support.loncapa.org/events/conf2019/

just a reminder to please register soon. We need numbers for planning purposes.

We hope to see you soon,

- Gerd.