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
