This module allows you to automatically assign students to stations, instead of having to manually drag students in and out. It will pick students from the Lobby and return them one by one into the station at a specified interval.
What teachers see:
What students in the station see (to let them know how much time remaining they have):
Simply use this URL to add the module to your class:
https://edrys-org.github.io/module-auto-assign/
The module is fully configurable using the UI by any teacher in the class, on a per-station basis.
This module works in a distributed way, where each station picks its own students at the specified interval. If you have more than one station, as they don't communicate with each other, the module relies on differences in time interval offsets to avoid any conflicts where the same student might get picked twice. In the future, inter-station comms maybe implemented to allow calculating the exact time a student will get access and display that to every waiting student.
Additionally, when stations for multiple different Edrys servers are run on one device (for example, to share equipment access across universities), the module does not yet implement any special measures. In the future, it will use inter-tab communication with other station instances to mitigate conflicts.