Thanks Stuart, as always! Doug
Douglas Mills Director of Instructional Technology Department of Chemistry University of Illinois On 6/29/16, 10:49 AM, "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: >Doug, > >> ... So for example, we have a slot from 4:30 to 7:30 for an online >> exam, Central Daylight Savings Time. Will a student in the Eastern >> Timezone see that listed at 5:30-8:30 OR do they simply need to >> take into account that the timezone the server is in and make their >> own adjustment? > >For items in the Course Contents screen which use slot access, and for >which the student already has a reservation (either an >instructor-assigned slot or a student-selectable slot), the status >column will show something like "Reserved - next open in x hours", >between the open date and the slot start time, and "Reserved - ends in >x minutes", between the slot start time and the slot end time. > >The "Reservations" screen for the student will show the slot >description for each resource for which a slot is assigned. > >If the description field is empty, then LON-CAPA will show the slot >name, followed by: "From $start to $end", where $start and $end will >be the start and end times of the particular slot. > >The timezone used when displaying the date/time for $start and $end is >from lonlocal::gettimezone(). The routine looks for a timezone >according to the following order (in course context): > >(a) Timezone for course (from course settings) >(b) Timezone for course's domain (from domain configuration) if (a) not >set. >(c) Timezone of server hosting user session if neither (a) nor (b) set. > >You could also explicitly include the start and end times of the slot >in the slot description, and you could choose which time zone to use >when creating the description. > >If you wanted students in different time zones to see slot start and >end times in the time zone appropriate for their current location then >one way you could do that currently would be to use multiple >student-selectable slots, one for each time zone you want to support, >and explicitly include the time zone in the slot description. The >idea would be that students then sign up by choosing the slot >appropriate for their time zone. > >Internally LON-CAPA stores all dates/times as UNIX timestamps (i.e., >seconds since UNIX epoch), so the different slots would all actually >have the identical start times internally, it's just the description >(which you would set) which would be different. > > >Stuart Raeburn >LON-CAPA Academic Consortium > > >Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu>: > >> HI All, >> >> Can anyone clarify for me if Lon-Capa takes into account the >> timezone of an online student for things like signing up for a slot >> to take an exam? So for example, we have a slot from 4:30 to 7:30 >> for an online exam, Central Daylight Savings Time. Will a student >> in the Eastern Timezone see that listed at 5:30-8:30 OR do they >> simply need to take into account that the timezone the server is in >> and make their own adjustment? Thanks! >> >> 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
