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Jason Edgecombe - Requiring students to change email address before working problems

Jason Edgecombe - Requiring students to change email address before working problems

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inactiveTopicRequiring students to change email address before working problems topic started 11/11/2002; 8:20:42 AM
last post 11/11/2002; 9:29:29 AM
userJason Edgecombe - Requiring students to change email address before working problems  blueArrow
11/11/2002; 8:20:42 AM (reads: 867, responses: 2)
Hello,

Is there a way to require students change their email address before they are able to work any problems?

Sincerely, Jason Edgecombe

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userArnold K. Pizer - Re: Requiring students to change email address before working problems  blueArrow
11/11/2002; 9:03:24 AM (reads: 1035, responses: 0)
Hi Jason,

I can not think of a way to do this without editing the code in login.pl (or something equivalent).

You could e.g. edit the success_form subroutine in login.pl so that if the classlist database does not contain the student's email address, the "Begin Problem sets" button is not displayed and a warning message is displayed instead. You would have to decide what "contain the student's email address" means (the simplest thing would be to require something the looks like an email address).

If possible, it's probably much better to get an initial list of email addresses from your registrar and add these automatically when you (hopefully automatically) create a classlist for your course.

Arnie

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userJason Edgecombe - Re: Requiring students to change email address before working problems  blueArrow
11/11/2002; 9:29:29 AM (reads: 1026, responses: 0)
Hi Arnie,

I have added a custom web page to webwork so that professors can easily import students from the Registrar, but our problem is that some email address are incorrect and students aren't compelled to correct their email address.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Sincerely, Jason Edgecombe

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