Hi, Also note the “change all dates based on …”, which works with sections. So, you can possibly get all your dates set and adjusted in less than five minutes.
- Gerd. > On Nov 24, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Lucas, Mark <luc...@ohio.edu> wrote: > > You will hopefully pleasantly surprised. > > Section specific parameters live on. I do it all the time with our pre-class > assignments. > > We have four sections - 101-104 - in the Fall. These parameters have > transferred just fine. > > Mark > > > On Nov 24, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Mills, Douglas G <dmi...@illinois.edu> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> For our lab courses we do a huge amount of date setting to control when labs >> become available, based on when students are actually in the labs, as well >> as due dates and answer dates for prelabs and postlabs. These are >> section-based and with 70-some sections in one of these courses in the Fall >> semesters, we're always looking for a way to streamline how we're doing >> this. I'm hoping I'm wrong but assuming that copying this semester's course >> over for next semester and moving all of the dates in the course back 147 >> days will NOT do anything for the section-specific opening/closing/answer >> dates because in the new course site there will be no students to start with >> and at least if you want to set those dates manually you cannot do so until >> the section has students enrolled in it. Am I right in that assumption or >> will I be very pleasantly surprised? Any suggestions on how to work around >> that or other completely different approaches? >> >> I realize that with this approach, the differences in the calendar of each >> semester (Fall break does not correspond to Spring Break in terms of where >> it falls in the semestser) means that this will only work for 6 weeks, but >> if I could automate date-setting for 6 weeks of the semester, that would >> save me hours of time right there. >> >> Thanks as always, >> >> Doug >> >> Douglas Mills >> Director of Instructional Technology >> Department of Chemistry >> University of Illinois >> > > -- > Mark Lucas email: > luc...@ohiou.edu > 252D Clippinger Lab phone: > (740)597-2984 > Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: (740)593-0433 > Ohio University > Athens, OH 45701 > > _______________________________________________ > LON-CAPA-users mailing list > LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users -- Gerd Kortemeyer, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physics Director, LON-CAPA Project Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/user/kortemey/ _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
