Here is what I'm finding. I'm using the IP address of my own computer for
testing. At the course level I set !130.126.123.12 for the parameter "Client
IP/Name Access Control [Part: 0]" Then in a folder I choose to represent the
exam to be taken in the testing center, I enter 130.126.123.12 for the same
parameter at the folder level.
What I find is that with the course coordinator role I continue to see
everything. That's no problem but means you have to switch to student role to
test the results. As a student on my computer with that IP address, it works as
I had hoped: I can access the content of the "exam" folder but everything else
in the course shows up as "Not open to be viewed from this location" (note that
if "Hide Closed Discussion" is not set to "yes" the discussions attached to
problems continue to be visible even though the problems are not).
HOWEVER, when I go to a different computer -- emulating a computer outside of
the testing center, NOTHING in the course is accessible. EVERYTHING in the
course, the "exam" folder along with everything else, says that it is not open
to be viewed from this location.
My theory then is that using the ! operator in front of the IP address either
requires a syntax I'm not using (I've tried direction in front of the IP, with
a space between ! and IP, and with ! followed by IP wrapped in parens...) or is
simply not understood. Thus although it appears to work correctly on my
computer because the exam is to be accessed only from my IP and nothing else is
to be accessed, from any other IP address Lon-Capa is treating the !IP entry as
an IP address to be matched and since nothing matches that, nothing is
available...
Is that what's going on or is there yet some way to "blacklist" IPs we don’t
want the content accessed from?
Thank you!
Doug
Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technology
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
On 2/5/19, 11:35 AM, "LON-CAPA-users on behalf of Mills, Douglas G"
<lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of dmi...@illinois.edu>
wrote:
To clarify a bit further, we are looking at presenting exams in a testing
center. The testing center eliminates access to other IP addresses, so our
interest is indeed eliminating access to other course materials from the IP
address of the student’s computer. We do use the technique Stuart has outlined
in many of our exams, locking out access to other parts of the course via the
start timer. The concern in this case is that one thing the testing center
would not manage well is the possibility that a student could log into the
course and open additional course resources in other tabs before starting the
exam timer. The testing center accommodates exams from multiple courses at one
time and Lon-Capa will be a new means of delivery for them, so this possibility
will not likely be monitored well.
That said, if putting ! in front of a range of IPs in a slot works then my
thought is to essentially put the whole course into a slot which excludes
access to the course from the testing center range of IPs and then override
that at the folder level for the exams themselves with a slot that only allows
access from the testing center IP range. Does that sound feasible?
Doug
-sent from mobile-
> On Feb 5, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Bynum, Lee Hamilton <leeby...@illinois.edu>
wrote:
>
> It isn't a perfect match, but it's definitely a step in the right
direction. Thanks Stuart!
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org> On
>> Behalf Of l...@egr.msu.edu
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 10:55 AM
>> To: 'Discussion list for LON-CAPA users'
<lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org>
>> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Restricting Resources By IP Address
>>
>> Slots block the IP address student where the student can log in, not the
IP
>> ranges that they access AFTER they are logged in. Just precede the IP
address
>> range with !. However, that does not do what you are seeking, which is to
>> block browser access to certain IP ranges AFTER they are logged in.
>>
>> From: LON-CAPA-users [mailto:lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org]
>> On Behalf Of Bynum, Lee Hamilton
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 11:31 AM
>> To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
>> Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Restricting Resources By IP Address
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> We've been working with Lon-Capa's ability to grant access to a resource
by
>> IP address in order to allow an exam to only be accessed when a student
is in
>> an exam room. This can be done with slots and resources parameters.
>> However, we would also like to deny access to resources (or courses) by
IP
>> address. That way when a student is in the exam room they have access to
>> the exam but do not have access to the rest of the course.
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a way to blacklist IP addresses for Lon-Capa
>> resources or slots?
>>
>> Lee
>>
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