Workshop

James, sorry no idea what's going on here. Certainly without any assessments elements each time you go into the workshop it's meant to display the "Give me some assessment elements" pages. That's a design feature but in your case it's a design loop . Try Firefox...? [He says lamely.]

>>My Explorer browser shows a "Save changes" button on this page, and acts as if changes are successfully saved when submitted, but then I'm looped back to this same form and have to start from scratch.>>

Ditto for me using IE on XP. However, looking at revision dates in the Workshop folder, I am pretty certain that I have an older version.

My server is OSX.35 Darwin Apache 1.3 | PHP 5.01 | MySQL 4.0.13

I have been looking for a more recent version of the Workshop module...
V. 1.41+ currently includes a version that has files most recently revised Sept.8/2004, and I don't believe the version available from the Mods and Addons page is current either. Is the spiffy new 2004092400 - In-line submissions version only available via CVS? I'm looking for a stable version revised between 9/30/2004 - 10/18/2004

cheers.

Same problem here. I see a "<" as the button and when I try to add an element it says "course module is incorrect." The problem occurs on the Editing Workshop Elements.

My O/S: Mac OS v10.3
Moodle: version 1.4.2 2004083125

My solution for now is to use Assignments for everything instead of Workshops. It would be neat to have everyone making comments on other participants' work, but I'll have to let that go for now.

regarding the mentioned problem, I found the following error message in my apache log:

[Mon Feb 7 01:29:09 2005] [error] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle/mod/workshop/assessments.php on line 614

Does anyone know what the problem is?

Cheerio,

Michael.

What is still unresolved here and in related threads is that, even when we switch from e.g. Safari to IE to fix the button problem, the desired assessment elements cannot be added, i.e. we are stuck and cannot use the Workshop module at all. I initially reported this problem on 26 October and could not identify a workaround so I installed the development (1.5) version of Moodle for a pilot course to test the workshop, which worked though there were some continued minor problems with Workshop, and of course lots of issues with the development version.

At this point it has been over three months, I am now back to a stable (1.4.3+ or 2004083132) version of Moodle for an actual course I am running, and the problem persists as the Workshop version installed with 1.4.3+ is unchanged (2004060401). Other threads report the possibility of the latest version of Workshop being backwards-compatible (with at least 1.4.2), but this sounds risky.

So what this means to me is that the entire Workshop module is unusable until 1.5 stable comes out (which will be when??), or until someone out there identifies a workaround for 1.4.3+. My students are slated to submit their draft papers via Workshop on 28 February...I will send a bottle of virtual champagne to whoever can solve this for me!

There is a larger issue here as well: if I am going to effectively pitch Moodle to my university as a courseware package we need to find ways to fix bugs quicker. Problems such as the above will really affect Moodle's image.

Thanks,

Jim

Same problems here. For peer- and selfassesment this module is of vital importance for us. We are at the stage that our school is going to make a decision on what platform to use. The fact that a vital module stays out of order for such a 'long' time, gives me very little defence when other people suggest other platforms. (The argument of freeware is of no importance here, because we rent servers, and other platforms are including that in their prices, so the total cost is more or less the same) I do understand the problems involved in solving this, but unfortunately our schoolboard don't care about that argument.