Doug,
... So for example, we have a slot from 4:30 to 7:30 for an online
exam, Central Daylight Savings Time. Will a student in the Eastern
Timezone see that listed at 5:30-8:30 OR do they simply need to
take into account that the timezone the server is in and make their
own adjustment?
For items in the Course Contents screen which use slot access, and for
which the student already has a reservation (either an
instructor-assigned slot or a student-selectable slot), the status
column will show something like "Reserved - next open in x hours",
between the open date and the slot start time, and "Reserved - ends in
x minutes", between the slot start time and the slot end time.
The "Reservations" screen for the student will show the slot
description for each resource for which a slot is assigned.
If the description field is empty, then LON-CAPA will show the slot
name, followed by: "From $start to $end", where $start and $end will
be the start and end times of the particular slot.
The timezone used when displaying the date/time for $start and $end is
from lonlocal::gettimezone(). The routine looks for a timezone
according to the following order (in course context):
(a) Timezone for course (from course settings)
(b) Timezone for course's domain (from domain configuration) if (a) not set.
(c) Timezone of server hosting user session if neither (a) nor (b) set.
You could also explicitly include the start and end times of the slot
in the slot description, and you could choose which time zone to use
when creating the description.
If you wanted students in different time zones to see slot start and
end times in the time zone appropriate for their current location then
one way you could do that currently would be to use multiple
student-selectable slots, one for each time zone you want to support,
and explicitly include the time zone in the slot description. The
idea would be that students then sign up by choosing the slot
appropriate for their time zone.
Internally LON-CAPA stores all dates/times as UNIX timestamps (i.e.,
seconds since UNIX epoch), so the different slots would all actually
have the identical start times internally, it's just the description
(which you would set) which would be different.
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu>:
HI All,
Can anyone clarify for me if Lon-Capa takes into account the
timezone of an online student for things like signing up for a slot
to take an exam? So for example, we have a slot from 4:30 to 7:30
for an online exam, Central Daylight Savings Time. Will a student
in the Eastern Timezone see that listed at 5:30-8:30 OR do they
simply need to take into account that the timezone the server is in
and make their own adjustment? Thanks!
Doug
Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technology
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
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