Doug,
The "lock and unlock assessments" privilege in the custom roles set
up sounds > promising but I suspect this is not what it does -- if
it DOES do what we want, we haven't figured out how a TA exercises
that power.
The "Lock and unlock assessments" privilege, which can be assigned to
a custom role is one of a number of "placeholder" privileges in
LON-CAPA. Nothing in LON-CAPA currently checks if the privilege is
set, and then allows particular actions if it is found to be set.
The following privileges are also "placeholder" privileges:
"dch" Delete messages from discussion boards
"gan" Generate anonymous statistics
"pac" Post anonymously
"sma" Send internal message
i.e., they may be assigned to a custom role, but nothing currently
checks if they are set.
In the case of dch -- "Delete messages from discussion boards", rin --
"Get identity behind anonymous postings" is used instead to determine
whether deletion of posts may occur.
Our ideal scenario would be for the TA to view a list of students
in their section and 10 minutes into lab click a checkbox next to
each student who is not physically present in the lab with that
locking the lab for that student.
I have created an enhancement request to request implementation of
this -- see:
http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6701
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu>:
Good suggestions William and John but we're looking for a solution
we can put in the hands of the TAs. I know we could give them access
to the parameters, but we'd prefer not to get the TAs into the
parameter interface if at all possible -- seems like that would open
a larger can of worms. All of these courses are large. One of them
is typically 70+ sections with not sure how many TAs in the Fall
semesters, so something more straightforward for the TAs would be
much preferred. Our ideal scenario would be for the TA to view a
list of students in their section and 10 minutes into lab click a
checkbox next to each student who is not physically present in the
lab with that locking the lab for that student.
We know there is the proctor password, but that would require the TA
entering the password on 30+ devices. Simply announcing "today's
password is..." at the start of the lab means that students can text
it to friends, so no benefit really gained. The "lock and unlock
assessments" privilege in the custom roles set up sounds promising
but I suspect this is not what it does -- if it DOES do what we
want, we haven't figured out how a TA exercises that power.
Doug
Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technologies
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
dmi...@illinois.edu<mailto:dmi...@illinois.edu>
(217) 244-5739
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