HI Gerd, Where is "change all dates based on __" found? Thank you!
Doug Douglas Mills Director of Instructional Technology Department of Chemistry University of Illinois On 11/24/15, 2:41 PM, "lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of Gerd Kortemeyer" <lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of korte...@msu.edu> wrote: >Hi, > >Also note the ³change all dates based on Š², which works with sections. >So, you can possibly get all your dates set and adjusted in less than >five minutes. > >- Gerd. > >> On Nov 24, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Lucas, Mark <luc...@ohio.edu> wrote: >> >> 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 > >-- >Gerd Kortemeyer, Ph.D. >Associate Professor of Physics >Director, LON-CAPA Project >Michigan State University >http://www.msu.edu/user/kortemey/ > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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
