Doug,
For the purposes of re-usability, if an authored LON-CAPA problem
incorporates dependencies on a student's submission(s) to other
problem(s) in the current course, then arguably you should be working
with published sequences, and you should be importing those published
sequences into the course.
For the case of a published sequence imported into a course the symb
will *not* contain the course ID, so yes it is independent of the
course. However, it is not true to say that it is unique to the
resource, as it is in fact unique to the instance of the resource.
A symb is constructed from map___id___res, where map is the enclosing
sequence (or composite page), id is the unique id assigned to the
resource in the map, and res is the resource. So you could have two
different published maps in a course, with both containing the same
resource, but each instance of the resource would have a unique symb
(maps will be different). Similarly, you could have a single sequence
in a course containing multiple instances of the same resource, and
again, each instance would be unique (the ids would be different).
Anyway, because the symb needs to be unique, quite a number of lines
of LON-CAPA code are employed in ensuring that you do not end up with
two instances of the same published map in a single course, when using
the Course Editor clipboard to copy and paste with nested folders.
In my previous reply I mentioned that if you are using folders
generated in the Course Editor instead of published sequences then
there is no support for mapaliases, and you need to use a symb.
Of course, the problem with the symb in this case, is that it does
include the course ID, which means that authored resources that
include calls to &submission() in the script block, and have a
hard-coded symb as the sixth argument are not going to be re-usable.
If you built resources that way (I wouldn't recommend it), you would
want to publish with custom rights, with use restricted to a single
course (i.e., the one featured in the symb arg in &submission() calls).
It is actually possible to use Simple Problems within a course (with
type set to numerical) and within the Scripting section include calls
to &submission() which contain a sixth arg, providing the symb for
another resource in a folder in the course, e.g.,
$a = &submission('numerical','numericalsegment','',
'','','uploaded/msu/40326912a251e547fmsul1/default_1449967894.sequence___6___lib/templates/simpleproblem.problem');
But that's counter to the LON-CAPA philosophy of re-usability.
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu>:
Just to confirm -- it appears to me that the symb is unique to the
resource and independent of the course, is that correct?
Thanks,
Doug
Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technology
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
On 12/14/15, 4:57 PM, "lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf
of Stuart Raeburn" <lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of
raeb...@msu.edu> wrote:
Bob,
The syntax is described in the LON-CAPA Script Functions help item:
e.g.,
http://loncapa.chem.binghamton.edu/adm/help/Problem_LON-CAPA_Functions.hlp
To access a student's submissions in a different problem you need to
supply a sixth argument -- a maplias, and the call is:
&submission($partid,$responseid,$version,$encode,$cleanupnum,$mapalias);
In the case of a published sequence, where you have authoring or
co-authoring rights, you can set a mapalias for a particular resource
in the sequence using the Advanced Editor in Authoring Space (prior to
publication).
If there is no mapalias set you can use the (much longer) unique
identifier of the resource instance (known as the "symb"). If you are
using a folder added via the Course Editor rather than a published
sequence, there is currently no mechanism to set a mapalias for a
particular resource instance in the folder (which is actually still a
sequence internally in LON-CAPA), so you will have to use the "symb".
You can display a list of "symb"s in a course using:
Course Editor > Content Utilities > List Resource Identifiers
(the "symb"s are in the "Identifier" column).
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
Quoting Bob Gonzales <rgon...@binghamton.edu>:
Hi,
The release notes for 2.11.1 say this about &submission():
&submission() in one problem can access submissions by the same student
in a different problem.
Does this mean any problems in a course that the student has access to
or
do the problems still have to be in a sequence?
If a sequence is not required then what would be the the syntax of the
call?
Thanks,
Bob Gonzales
Binghamton University
Chemistry Dept
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