Does anyone have any experience with the
following behaviour?
Some (few, maybe a half dozen out of nearly
seventy) students do not see the 'Submit
Answers' button in (any of) their problems
in a particular WeBWorK problem set.
Here are a few more details. The problem
set was assigned to all students (including
the instructor) at one time. The 'open', 'due',
and 'answers available' times are the same
for these students as for the rest of the class.
Unassigning and later reassigning the set for
such a student does not coax the button out
of hiding. Creating a new user account for the
student and then assigning the set to that
account does the trick.
Any hints would be much appreciated.
-wb
'Submit Answers' button does not appear for _some_ students
by William Boshuck - Number of replies: 6
In reply to William Boshuck
Re: 'Submit Answers' button does not appear for _some_ students
by Andras Balogh -
A colleague of mine had similar problem recently.
We then noticed that accidentally all students were listed as guests.
I don't know how this happened, the appropriate column of the class list file was 0.
Changing them to students helped.
Andras
We then noticed that accidentally all students were listed as guests.
I don't know how this happened, the appropriate column of the class list file was 0.
Changing them to students helped.
Andras
In reply to Andras Balogh
Re: 'Submit Answers' button does not appear for _some_ students
by William Boshuck -
Thank you, that was the problem.
I have no idea how this happened
either. (It happened to another
instructor and I don't know how
she imported the class list.)
Thanks again.
-wb
I have no idea how this happened
either. (It happened to another
instructor and I don't know how
she imported the class list.)
Thanks again.
-wb
In reply to Andras Balogh
Re: 'Submit Answers' button does not appear for _some_ students
by Michael Gage -
Alex and William and others who have experienced this problem of students becoming "guests" for no reason.
Would you check the following:
Edit a student's entry (e.g. as if you were to change their status or correct the spelling of their name). Check the popup permission button way over on the right hand side (it might be off the screen so that you have to scroll). See if it has defaulted to guest.
This appears to have been a behavior that hits some sites. A student's status is edited and saved and the instructor doesn't notice that the student's status has been defaulted to guest and everyone is puzzled as to why the student doesn't have the ability to enter an answer.
I believe I have a fix for this behavior, but I'd first like to know if this was the phenomenon causing the problem on your site.
-- Mike
Would you check the following:
Edit a student's entry (e.g. as if you were to change their status or correct the spelling of their name). Check the popup permission button way over on the right hand side (it might be off the screen so that you have to scroll). See if it has defaulted to guest.
This appears to have been a behavior that hits some sites. A student's status is edited and saved and the instructor doesn't notice that the student's status has been defaulted to guest and everyone is puzzled as to why the student doesn't have the ability to enter an answer.
I believe I have a fix for this behavior, but I'd first like to know if this was the phenomenon causing the problem on your site.
-- Mike
In reply to Michael Gage
Re: 'Submit Answers' button does not appear for _some_ students
by William Boshuck -
Yes. Here the permission level defaults to guest
just as you described.
-wb
just as you described.
-wb
In reply to William Boshuck
Re: 'Submit Answers' button does not appear for _some_ students
by Michael Gage -
I've uploaded the fix to the file
lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/Instructor/UserList.pm
it consists of adding
override => 1
to the specification of the popup menu.
cvs update UserList.pm
typed in the lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/Instructor directory
should grab the update for either rel-2-4-patches or the HEAD version
of the repository.
-- Mike
lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/Instructor/UserList.pm
it consists of adding
override => 1
to the specification of the popup menu.
cvs update UserList.pm
typed in the lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/Instructor directory
should grab the update for either rel-2-4-patches or the HEAD version
of the repository.
-- Mike
In reply to William Boshuck
Re: 'Submit Answers' button does not appear for _some_ students
by Marc Renault -
Aargh! I'm using WW via the MAA server, and I'm experiencing this exact problem. All my students are registered as "Student", not "Guest". Any other ideas?
Marc
Marc