Re: Time Out, Close Session and Reauthentication Timing

"Elizabeth J. Pyatt" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.chi-web
Message-ID <p06240804c320040e8adc@[128.118.8.31]>
Our university dealt with this issue with respect to our course 
managment system.

One problem we had was that students would do some sort of external 
online research (e.g. looking up info for an open book quiz), but 
then come back and be timed out during a quiz or discussion board 
posting.

I believe we settled for about 120 min of inactivity as the trigger 
with multiple pop-up warnings starting at about 5 minutes ahead of 
logout.
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Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer
Education Technology Services, TLT/ITS
Penn State University
[email protected], (814) 865-0805 or (814) 865-2030 (Main Office)

210 Rider Building II
227 W. Beaver Avenue
State College, PA   16801-4819
http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu
http://tlt.psu.edu

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