Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Notebook error, please wait for the teacher to compelte the contents of this activity.

By: Dave Bauer

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Aha, apparently now I am awake. So define later is set if someone tries to edit the activity in the monitor, but it is not saved. That seems like a bug all by itself. It looks like that was put in place to stop learners while someone is editing, but anytime you set a lock on something you need a way to release it if there is a problem.

It seems like we need to notify the users in Monitor in two places, first, when you click edit it should tell you the activity is not available until you click cancel or save.

Perhaps we need a timeout of some sort? If you don't save it in X mins it should release the lock. If the teacher later comes back and clicks save, it shouldn't cause a problem. In most cases an abandoned edit should not lock everyone out.

Posted by Dave Bauer

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Timeouts are evil. I think it'll be a lot better to make it really clear (with a strong visual indication) to all teachers/monitors that there's an activity being edited though.

I have added the two tasks above to prevent this in the future.

There's also a discussion about whether we need to stop the students while the teacher edit the content.

Perhaps we could do this in certain activities but not in others. Not sure. Any comments welcome

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione