Re: [WWdevel] invisible (vs. unpublished) sets

[P G. L. <gl...@um...>]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your comments.  I think you're right.  I wonder if there's any 
reason that a proctored test should show up on the problem list page.  My 
initial thought is to take your suggestion and make a configuration option 
which would default to making the 'take a new proctored test' option not 
show up on the problem list page.  That would, however, then require some 
documentation for people seeking to use proctored tests.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Gavin

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 at 11:17 Michael Gage wrote:

> Hi Gavin,
>
> I think there is some use in having having a set invisible implies that 
> it cannot be worked on -- for example I've made sets invisible because 
> there was a glitch in one of the problems and I wanted to prevent 
> further student frustration until I'd fixed the set.  So I didn't want 
> them either seeing or doing the set.
>
> If we have write "is_a_gatewayquiz_set()" function (does this exist 
> already)  we could pretty easily add something to the course 
> configuration that determines whether or not gateway tests are listed on 
> the front page or not. That wouldn't interfere with the current behavior 
> of non-gateway sets and I think would do what you want.  Invisible vs. 
> visible wouldn't be involved at all.  An Invisible gateway set would not 
> show up but would also not be doable. Implementing it would involve some 
> changes to ProblemSets.pm, global.conf and course.conf but not much 
> else.
>
> take care,
>
> Mike

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