[Building Sakai] Chrome and samigo assessment time?

[Joshua Swink]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Karen Tsao <ktsao at stanford.edu> wrote:

> 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?


About 1 minute.


> Did she log out of Sakai? If yes, did she log back in to a different
> server?


No.


> 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?


Yes, at the time her browser shut down and restarted, she had one hour left
on the exam, according to Sakai. I determined this by looking at the start
time of the assessment as recorded in the database.


> 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?
>

Let me describe the timeline.

4:00 PM Student starts a two-hour timed exam
5:00 PM Browser shows one hour left. Then the browser shuts down for
whatever reason
5:01 PM The browser is restarted. The browser shows 30 minutes left on exam
(incorrectly)
5:30 PM Student submits exam, thinking that time is up (incorrectly)

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

I'm not 100% sure, it's the version that comes with Sakai 2.7.1.

Josh


>
> 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
>>>>              Cell phone: (+46) 70 - 23 14 777
>>>> Stockholm University
>>>>         Office: E 877, Frescati
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----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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