Carl,
Would this be solved by setting the 'time that students can no longer
reserve' to the same as the 'slot end time'?
No, that is not currently supported.
The slot "helper" used to configure a slot will not allow you to set
the "Time students can no longer reserve" to a value that is after the
start time of the slot.
(A message will be displayed: "Reservation end time must come before
the slot has started", if you try to do that).
In addition, the list of selectable slots displayed to a student
excludes any slots for which the slot start time is in the past.
LON-CAPA could. however, be modified to allow an end "reservation
date/time" after a slot's start time, and also to allow new
reservations on slots which had already started. (The option to
specify a "Time students can no longer reserve" is itself a relatively
new feature -- added in LON-CAPA 2.11).
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
I have a related question. In my use of slots, I left the 'time that
students can no longer reserve blank'. However, I found that if the slot
'start time' passes, students can no longer access the slot to sign up, and
they also are blocked from the resource. Thus, in order to enable them to
access the resource, I had to delete the association of the resource and
wait for that to propogate so that they could use the resource. Fortunately,
this was for a computer location for an in-class assignment so it was not an
exam.
Would this be solved by setting the 'time that students can no longer
reserve' to the same as the 'slot end time'?
Thanks,
Carl Lira
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From: lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org
[mailto:lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of Stuart
Raeburn
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 8:04 PM
To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] instructor-assigned slots
Doug,
To assign an instructor-assignable slot to a specific student for an exam
you need to set the "Slots of availability [Part: 0] (available)"
parameter at an Enclosing Map level for a particular student.
However, if there are more than a handful of students you might want to
create a group, and make those students who will be assigned to the specific
slot members of that group. Then you would set the "Slots of availability
[Part: 0] (available)" parameter at an Enclosing Map level for the group to
which they belong.
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu>:
Hi All,
We're using student-selected slots for students to schedule
themselves into online ProctorU proctored Lon-Capa exams vs.
face-to-face proctored Lon-Capa exams. Some students, of course, did
not make the deadline for choosing slots, and the instructor does
not want to extend the slot deadline, so I've cloned the existing
student-selectable slots into exact copies that are
teacher-assignable slots. However, I'm having a hard time seeing how
to actually assign the errant students into those slots. I know
that the new slot names need to be added to Slots of Availability
(separated by : for more than one slot) but then wondered if the way
slots are assigned is to do that with specific slots for specific
students -- is that how the slots are assigned for a resource for a
student? Or is that added generally for the resource and in some
other interface the students are assigned to the slots for that
resource? We're good now with the student-selected slots, but this
is eluding me. Thank you as always!
Doug
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