I'd love to discuss this further! We've talked internally about dynamically pacing students using suggested deadlines within an open "self paced" course, allowing learners to potentially even set a schedule based on expected effort per week. Some initial thoughts are shown here: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/EDUCATOR/Dynamic+Self+Pacing+for+Courses
On Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 9:03:14 PM UTC-4, Nate Aune wrote: > > We have a customer who is running self-paced courses (students can start > the course at any time), and they'd like to give students 4 months to > complete the course from the time they enroll. > > Once the 4 months is up, they want to let the student to see the work > that they have completed, but the student cannot do additional > assessments, assignments or lab work. Essentially, the student has > read-only access to the course, but they are still enrolled so they can > view any earned certificate or refer to the course content (just not > re-submit any answers). > > I know that custom courses allow you to specify a different due date for > assignments, so maybe students could be enrolled in a custom course > depending on when they start the course, and the due dates for those > students would be fixed, so if they don't submit their assignments by the 4 > month due date, they can no longer submit. But this doesn't seem like a > practical solution, because it would require creating a custom course for > every day in that 4 month period. > > Another idea was to utilize the cohorts feature to move a student from a > "active student" cohort, to an "inactive student" cohort, and the inactive > student cohort would not have permissions to change their submitted > responses. Although I'm not sure if its possible to specify that a cohort > can no longer submit responses. > > I think all that can be done is to say which cohorts can access which > pieces of content. So we could hide the content from a student in the > "inactive student" cohort, but that's not the desired behavior - we don't > want to hide it, we just want to prevent subsequent submissions after the 4 > month period has passed. > > Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, where I might look to > find such a solution? It seems as though self-paced courses can't have a > student specific end date (timed access to a course), only a universal end > date which affects all students, no matter when they start the course. > > thanks, > Nate > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/45a1cd23-2da2-4ea3-8190-7b44ff7a1801%40googlegroups.com.
