[Building Sakai] Chrome and samigo assessment time?

[Karen Tsao]

Hi Josh,

Here is what I understand from your previous email:

Your exam is a two hour timed exam. The student exited in the middle and
came back after some break. When she got back, she saw 30 min left from the
Samigo timer bar.

Now I have couple of questions here. How much time difference between she
left the exam and retake the exam? Did she log out of Sakai? If yes, did
she log back in to a different server? Also, can you please explain what do
you mean by "According to the server, she still had an hour left, not 30
minutes, when she restarted her browser."? Does your "server" refer to the
database record? And what do you mean by "the browser was shut down for no
more than 1 minute."? I thought she submitted the exam after 30 min?

By the way, can you please let me know what Samigo version you use?

Thanks,
Karen


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joshua Swink <joshua.swink at gmail.com>wrote:

> In the case I am describing, the browser was shut down for no more than 1
> minute.
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Karen Tsao <ktsao at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> This is the expected behavior. The timer will keep counting down even if
>> the network is down because there is no way we can tell if the student left
>> the test on their own, or if the network went down. If students have
>> shorter time because of the network or other uncontrollable issues, the
>> instructor can give them a chance to retake the assessment.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Karen
>>
>>  On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:14 AM, David Minugh <
>> David.Minugh at english.su.se> wrote:
>>
>>>  I believe we saw a similar situation with Firefox when we ran a timed
>>> diagnostic test in SAKAI, using the T&Q function. The net went down, and
>>> when it was up again after half an hour or so, the students' timers
>>> indicated that that half-hour had been counted, so they got a shorter time
>>> for the test. Unfortunately, I don't know what the server(s) recorded.
>>>   At any rate, the expected behavior would be for the student test time
>>> to be extended accordingly, although I don't know how you'd solve it
>>> technically.
>>>
>>> David C. Minugh
>>>       E-mail: David.Minugh at english.su.se
>>> Director of Studies
>>>              Tel: (+46) 8 16 36 11
>>> English Department
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>>> Stockholm University
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>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
>>> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Swink
>>> Sent: den 24 februari 2012 22:19
>>> To: Sakai-Dev
>>> Subject: [Building Sakai] Chrome and samigo assessment time?
>>>
>>> We had a student whose browser, Chrome, shut down for whatever reason
>>> about one hour into a two-hour timed exam in Samigo. When she restarted it
>>> and went back to the exam, it showed only about half an hour remaining. It
>>> should have shown one hour remaining. She took a screen shot, which showed
>>> the timer remaining at that point, and also her computer's clock (which
>>> showed the correct time of day). She submitted the exam when the timer ran
>>> out, missing out on about 30 minutes of test time.
>>>
>>> According to the server, she still had an hour left, not 30 minutes,
>>> when she restarted her browser. So I'm wondering if this might be a problem
>>> with Chrome, or has this sort of thing happened with other browsers?
>>>
>>> Josh
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