From ABERTR at tcc.fl.edu  Mon Jul  1 08:50:30 2019
From: ABERTR at tcc.fl.edu (Rex Abert)
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 12:50:30 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] "slider" as a question type?
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Sally-

I am replying off-list because I one time replied with a URL in the email, and the spam filter now blocks me. :-(

I've done some recent work using Javascript to do similar things.  Your slider is coded with javascript, so you can identify the script to the browswer with
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

Now simply add a variable that you want to store the slider's value in:

var confidenceLevel = slider.value;


You can also set a response in the LC problem that will store the student's response, whose data you should be able to harvest later, though it might be tedious.

In the loncapa problem create a response of some type, probably custom response, so that it can take any value as "correct."

<part id="2">
<customresponse id="100">
    <hiddenline />
        <answer type="loncapa/perl">
           return 'EXACT_ANS';
        </answer>
</customresponse>


Using the <hiddenline />, this response will not show up within the problem.

Add a function similar to the following to your javascript:

  function setAnswer(answerIn)
  {
      try{
        document.lonhomework.elements["HWVAL_100"].value = answerIn;
      } catch(e) {}
  }

Call the function (I guess it doesn't have to be a separate function; it depends on how often you need to call it.

setAnswer(confidenceLevel);

This will pass the slider value to Lon-Capa as a response, and the student response will then be saved on the server.

I hope this helps!

Rex Abert
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Tallahassee Community College
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From: LON-CAPA-users [lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org] on behalf of Sally S Hunnicutt [sshunnic at vcu.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 12:06 PM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] "slider" as a question type?

Follow up to my previous question.

Using the coding below, I can get a slider to appear in my problem. However, the script is not type="loncapa". I would like to be able to get the slider bar response and save it in a variable that I can use elsewhere in the problem. Also, I would like to be able to store the students' confidence levels for research reasons.

Thanks,
Sally

Code:
<part id="p3">

<p>How confident are you that your answer is correct? Move the slider bar to the right to indicate high confidence (100) and to the left to indicate low confidence (1).</p>
<input type="range" min="1" max="100" value="50" id="myRange"></input>
<p>Your confidence is <span id="x"></span></p>


<script>
var slider = document.getElementById("myRange");
var output = document.getElementById("x");
output.innerHTML = slider.value;

slider.oninput = function() {
  output.innerHTML = this.value;
}
</script>

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:32 PM Sally S Hunnicutt <sshunnic at vcu.edu<mailto:sshunnic at vcu.edu>> wrote:
Hello,

Has anyone developed a slider question as a type of question? For example, I would like to ask students to give their confidence, using a slider bar, that the question they have answered is the correct answer.

Thanks,
Sally Hunnicutt
VCU


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From bradfor3 at math.purdue.edu  Tue Jul  2 15:48:13 2019
From: bradfor3 at math.purdue.edu (Clinton Bradford)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 15:48:13 -0400
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Linked Resources?
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Hello LonCapa ,

Does anyone know how to get linked resources working?

I have copied the example given at
http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-users/2012-April/003965.html ,
changing the path urls appropriately, but even in a student account the
link reference does not work. Similarly, it did not fix it to set the
mapalias explicitly in the course contents.

EXT calls and submission calls both seem to be ignoring the $symbparm /
$mapalias parameter, returning information about the current exercise only.


Any help would be appreciated; has anyone managed to get linked exercises
working lately? This is on the Purdue server.


Best,
Clinton
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From lee at math.usask.ca  Tue Jul  2 20:07:24 2019
From: lee at math.usask.ca (Amos Lee)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 18:07:24 -0600
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Changing course coordinator status to a user for a
 large number of courses
Message-ID: <d9fa2a30-607a-843f-dca0-937399ee00ce@math.usask.ca>

Hello LonCapa,

We would like to give an instructor "course coordinator" access status to
several dozen of courses on our Lon Capa Server.  As the Domain
Coordinator, I know how to add such a status to that user by selecting one
course at a time.  But for several dozen courses, it is quite repetitive
and time consuming.  Is there a fast way to select all the desired courses
from a list, and then choose the status?

Thanks,

Amos Lee
math and stats
univ of sask




From raeburn at msu.edu  Tue Jul  2 23:12:55 2019
From: raeburn at msu.edu (Raeburn, Stuart)
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 03:12:55 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Linked Resources?
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Hello Clinton,

The posted example (from 2012) found at:

mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-users/2012-April/003965.html

also works with all versions of LON-CAPA released since 2012.

The first thing I would look at in your local instance of that example from the listserv is to confirm (in course context) that a mapalias is listed for the specific resource in the published sequence which you imported into your course.

The way to check if an alias (for a resource) is available in course context is to click "Content Settings" in the Functions menu when displaying the resource (e.g., p1.problem in the example in the earlier post).  

You should see the alias listed in the table cell for:

Row: "Resource alias name for conditions [Part: 0] (mapalias)"
Column: Any User -- Resource Level -- from Enclosing Map or Folder  (i.e., right column of the two pink columns).

If you do not see the alias name there ...

If you are author or a co-author for the published sequence, and your course session is on the library server that is also the home server for the the Authoring Space where the published sequence was created, you'll have access to an "Edit" link in the Course Editor.  Clicking the "Edit" link will take you to the Authoring Space, where you'll click "Advanced Edit" to launch the Advanced "RAT" which is used to set the mapalias for a resource in a map.

To set a mapalias for a resource you need to click on the square containing the particular resource in the linked set of resources, which will pop-up a window (the "edit" window).  Click on "Set Parameters",  which will open yet another window (with the title: LON-CAPA Set Resource Parameters in Map). You'll likely need to override pop-up blocking.

In the row: Custom Parameter parameter_0_mapalias you should see the mapalias you previously set listed in the "Default" column.  If it is not there, type the desired alias in the "Value" textbox, check the checkbox in the "Set" column, and push the "Save" button.  Then in the "Edit" pop-up click "Save changes" and in the main window click "Save map" (the first on the Save actions in the menu above the map of linked resources.  Lastly, click "Publish" in the Functions menu at the top of the page.

Currently you can only set a maplias for a resource by including a published map (i.e., a .sequence or .page) imported into a course.

For LON-CAPA 2.12 I have implemented the ability to set a mapalias for a problem within a course using the Course Editor.  A mapalias set there (via a "Set Alias" link) behaves the same way as one set in a published sequence, which therefore means you can use an alias without the requirement to use a published map when adding the resource to a course.

>
> EXT calls and submission calls both seem to be ignoring the $symbparm / $mapalias parameter, 
> returning information about the current exercise only.
>

If information is returned about the current problem, then that means that the mapalias is not being found in the user's course session file, most likely because it is absent from the published sequence file which references the problem.

>
> Similarly, it did not fix it to set the mapalias explicitly in the course contents.
>

Correct.  Although: 

Settings > "Edit Resource Parameters - Overview Mode" 

and 

Settings > " Edit Resource Parameters - Table Mode"

both include a checkbox for "Resource alias name for conditions" in the Miscellaneous box in "Parameter Specification", which permits you to set a parameter for mapalias in a course, any parameter you set there is not used.

See also the discussion here on re-usability:
mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-users/2015-December/005020.html

Note: the current implementation makes a separate call to retrieve the data from the user's home server each time an &EXT() call is used to retrieve data for a resource that is different from the one currently being rendered.  As a result, LON-CAPA is currently inefficient when you are acquiring multiple pieces of information for a single resource (distinct from the one being rendered).  Temporary storage of data retrieved by the first &EXT() call for a particular resource (for the duration of the user's request) would boost performance for that particular use case.

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 Clinton Bradford <bradfor3 at math.purdue.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 3:48:13 PM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Linked Resources?

Hello LonCapa ,

Does anyone know how to get linked resources working?

I have copied the example given at http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-users/2012-April/003965.html, changing the path urls appropriately, but even in a student account the link reference does not work. Similarly, it did not fix it to set the mapalias explicitly in the course contents.

EXT calls and submission calls both seem to be ignoring the $symbparm / $mapalias parameter, returning information about the current exercise only.


Any help would be appreciated; has anyone managed to get linked exercises working lately? This is on the Purdue server.


Best,
Clinton

From raeburn at msu.edu  Wed Jul  3 04:38:01 2019
From: raeburn at msu.edu (Raeburn, Stuart)
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 08:38:01 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Changing course coordinator status to a user
 for a large number of courses
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Hello Amos,

>
> Is there a fast way to select all the desired courses from a list, and then choose the status?
>

The Domain Coordinator's User Management interface does not currently support assignment of a Course Coordinator role in multiple courses all at once (you have to select them one at a time).  

However, in LON-CAPA 2.11.2, as Domain Coordinator, you could:

1. Assign a Domain Helpdesk role to this instructor, via "Create users or modify the roles and privileges of users".

2. Use: "Set domain configuration" > Display ("Support Settings" checked) to define an "ad hoc" helpdesk course role which could receive all privileges usually assigned to a Course Coordinator. When defining that ad hoc role, you can restrict its availability to specific user(s) with a Domain Helpdesk role.

3, After  steps 1 and 2 (above) have been completed, when the instructor next logs in to LON-CAPA the roles screen will contain a "Domain Helpdesk" row featuring a link: "Ad hoc course/community roles in domain -- Select Course/Community".  When the instructor clicks that link it will pop open a window, in which the user can search/select the course in which to acquire a temporary "ad hoc" role.  (This is similar to the ad hoc Course Coordinator role link, available to a Domain Coordinator from the roles screen).

If you were to adopt the approach in 1 and 2 then the specific user would be able to acquire a Course Coordinator role in *any* course in your domain, unless the course owner had explicitly denied it (in each course) via: People > Users >  Helpdesk Access > Role usage (set in a course).

Whether that is more time consuming than assigning a Course Coordinator role one course at a time depends on how many courses there are in your domain for which this user should have CC-like access, and how many there are for which this user should *not* have CC-like access.


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 Amos Lee <lee at math.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 8:07 PM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Changing course coordinator status to a user for a large number of courses

Hello LonCapa,

We would like to give an instructor "course coordinator" access status to
several dozen of courses on our Lon Capa Server.  As the Domain
Coordinator, I know how to add such a status to that user by selecting one
course at a time.  But for several dozen courses, it is quite repetitive
and time consuming.  Is there a fast way to select all the desired courses
from a list, and then choose the status?

Thanks,

Amos Lee
math and stats
univ of sask

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From gcrego at purdue.edu  Fri Jul 12 14:10:11 2019
From: gcrego at purdue.edu (Crego, Geoffrey R)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 18:10:11 +0000
Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Farewell to Purdue
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Hello all,

Just wanted to send a note of farewell. Today, is my last day with Purdue University. I am moving on to a better opportunity. It has been a pleasure getting to know you all at the last three years on LON-CAPA conferences. I hope to stay somewhat connected with LC as I am working on putting together a project that would make use of LC. If that works out, I may reconnect with you all in the future. Until then God bless and Happy coding.

Best Regards,
Geoff Crego

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