Seems like you could hide the resource from absent students, as well.

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> On Feb 28, 2014, at 6:53 PM, "William Paddock" <paddock...@elps.k12.mi.us> 
> wrote:
> 
> I'm not familiar with the "lock and unlock" parameter, but in situations like 
> the one you describe, I simply change the absent students' due date to some 
> time in the past (or open date to some time after the due date). This is 
> similar to what you suggest the TA might do with locking. Would that take 
> care of the issue?
> 
> Will
> 
>> On Feb 28, 2014, at 5:54 PM, "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> HI All,
>> 
>> Can anyone enlighten me as to what exactly the privilege to “lock and unlock 
>> assessments” is and how one uses it?  Can it be used on a per-student level? 
>>  Use case: students are required to enter their lab data while in the lab 
>> (I.e. actually do the experiments and enter their actual data).  However, 
>> inevitably despite numerous stern warnings about failing the course if data 
>> is entered from anywhere but the lab itself, there are always a handful of 
>> students each semester who oversleep or whatever, get up panicked and start 
>> making up and entering data from their dorms. I’d love for the IP-based 
>> restrictions to be workable as that would be a wonderfully elegant solution, 
>> but at this point anyway the campus wireless is all one big pool of IP 
>> numbers (how about GPS-based restrictions? :-).  So failing that, we’re 
>> thinking if there were an easy way for a TA ten minutes into the class to 
>> take note of absent students and simply lock their labs. Can that be done 
>> with this privilege and if so, how?  I’m guessing that’s not what it’s 
>> intended for, but thought it was worth asking. Thank you!
>> 
>> Doug
>> 
>> Douglas Mills
>> Director of Instructional Technologies
>> Department of Chemistry
>> University of Illinois
>> dmi...@illinois.edu
>> (217) 244-5739
>> 
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