Thank you as always, Stuart. Immensely helpful. Doug
Douglas Mills Director of Instructional Technology Department of Chemistry University of Illinois On 6/30/15, 1:45 PM, "lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of Stuart Raeburn" <lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of raeb...@msu.edu> wrote: >Hi Doug, > >> I'm not finding much documentation on Slots, so if it's out there, >> can someone point me in the right direction? > >To find a number of posts to the LON-CAPA mailing lists over the years >to do with slots, visit the mailing list search page: > >http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/swish.cgi > >(referenced in section 2.2 of the PDF versions of both the course >coordination manual and the authoring manual -- "Where to Find >Additional Help") > >and search using the term: Slots > >> (1) To create slots via csv file upload, what needs to be in the csv >> file? Is there a sample file somewhere? > >To find out what needs to be in there create a csv file (e.g., >slotdefs.csv containing: > >examone,dmills:uiuc > >Then log-in to a course as Course Coordinator, and use: >Settings > Slots > Upload Slot List > >Click "Browse" to locate the slotdefs.csv file and click "Next". >In the Functions box click "Reverse Association". > >This will show you a table with a list of attributes you might >associate with columns from your CSV file. (For the two column file, >examone might be the Slot name, and dmills:uiuc might be the "List of >proctor ids". > >If you will upload multiple proctor IDs, use a comma separator, but >enclose the entry in quotes. > >The attributes supported for CSV upload are: > >Slot name >Type of slot >Start Time of slot >End Time of slot >Reservation Start Time >Reservation End Time >Message when reservation changed >IP or DNS restriction >List of proctor ids >Slot Description >Maximum number of reservations >Resource Restriction >Date range of slot exclusion >Secret word proctor uses to validate >Sections slot is restricted to >Users slot is restricted to > >> (2) How do you connect a given resource to a given set of potential >>slots? > >Display the resource, and click on "Content Settings". >Set the parameter: "Use slot based access controls" (useslots) to one >of the "Yes" options. > >If you have created student-schedulable slots, for which the start >date and end date have yet to be reached, then students will be able >to self-schedule access to resource(s) which have useslots set to one >of the "Yes" options, using one of those slots. > >If you have created instructor-assignable slots, then you can click >the "Slots of availability" (available) parameter, and enter the name >of the slot (or a : separated list of slot names, if more than one is >to be assigned). > >> (3) What is the function of the "secret word" ? > >This can be entered on the Proctor Validation screen in the "Password" >field, by the Proctor instead of needing to enter the proctor's own >LON-CAPA password. > >The Proctor Validation screen is displayed when a student attempts to >access a resource with slot-based control between the start date/time >and end date/time for the slot being used for the resource, if not >previously checked into that slot by the proctor. > >> (4) In setting up the slots, there are options for "Period of Time >> when this slot can only be uniquely chosen" -- the meaning of this >> and what it does is not clear to us. > >Use this to ensure that a student does not reserve multiple slots in a >given time period. > >For example, say you have five labs available in a given week, but >each student should only attend one of them, to complete a particular >assignment. You would create a student-schedulable slot for each lab >opportunity, and set the "Period of Time when this slot can only be >uniquely chosen" (also known as "Date range of slot exclusion") to >cover the entire week, for each of the five slots. > >This would mean that a student could only hold a reservation for one >of the five at any time, and if he/she wanted to attend at a different >time from the one he/she had currently reserved, would need to drop >the current one in order to be able to reserve another. > >Stuart Raeburn >LON-CAPA Academic Consortium > >Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu>: > >> HI All, >> >> I'm not finding much documentation on Slots, so if it's out there, >> can someone point me in the right direction? >> >> Here are some questions we are uncertain about: >> >> (1) To create slots via csv file upload, what needs to be in the csv >> file? Is there a sample file somewhere? >> >> (2) How do you connect a given resource to a given set of potential >> slots? We know there are the two interfaces -- the slot creation >> interface and the resource parameter interface, but is there >> somewhere where you say that Exam 1 can be taken in these particular >> slots and no others? Is that simply a byproduct of when Exam 1 >> opens and closes and the slots that are available in that timeframe? >> Or is there something else somewhere that helps control that? >> >> (3) What is the function of the "secret word" ? In my testing I >> found that if I assigned a proctor from the course, I wasn't seeing >> that there was any need for the secret word. I had imagined that >> perhaps a blank in which to enter the secret word would appear when >> a student attempted to access a resource and an onsite (or online in >> a case like ProctorU) proctor would type the word in for the >> student and the student would continue from there. >> >> (4) In setting up the slots, there are options for "Period of Time >> when this slot can only be uniquely chosen" -- the meaning of this >> and what it does is not clear to us. >> >> Thanks as always! >> >> Doug >> >> Douglas Mills >> Director of Instructional Technology >> Department of Chemistry >> University of Illinois > >_______________________________________________ >LON-CAPA-users mailing list >LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org >http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
