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Mark Schmitt - Modifying Due Dates

Mark Schmitt - Modifying Due Dates

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inactiveTopicModifying Due Dates topic started 9/13/2002; 7:07:18 AM
last post 9/14/2002; 4:15:23 PM
userMark Schmitt - Modifying Due Dates  blueArrow
9/13/2002; 7:07:18 AM (reads: 806, responses: 1)
Is there an easy way to get section or recitation values from the problem set keys? The reason I ask is that teachers here at DCDS would like to be able to change due dates for whole sections at a time, without changing the dates for other sections.

I think I should be able to just add a conditional test to the the loop in changeDates, but that will only work if I can easily get the section info from the problem set key.

Thanks for all the help.

Mark

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userMichael Gage - Re: Modifying Due Dates  blueArrow
9/14/2002; 4:15:23 PM (reads: 1025, responses: 0)
I can't think of any easy way to do this. Arnie knows the class list database better than I, so he may have some suggestions.

The psvn is generated randomly, so there is no way to decode the section directly from the psvn. You can use the psvn to look up the user name in the database, then use that to get the section name from the CL database.

This sounds complicated, but it would probably work fast enough. It would require writing some new access subroutines, but that's not as complicated as laying out a new database.

--Mike

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