Lesson

Hi Michael,

I had indeed "done my homework" and written the necessary help file for my modified lesson question types (see my message dated 5 of February in this thread).

The help files are included in the archives of modified files available on my test site, as explained in that message. However, if that is more convenient, I am also attaching them to this message.

All the best,

Joseph

Hi Mark,

Thanks for tidying up my code and putting it in 1.6dev! It seems to work pretty well. So far I've just noted one bug.

In order to single out the presence of "wrong unwanted" words within the student's reponse, the teacher can prefix the expected answer regular expression with a double plus ++. As a result of matching the student's response with that expected answer, those wrong unwanted words will be displayed with the "incorrect" class style.

This is done in file \moodle\mod\lesson\action\continue.php around lines 212:

$fontStart = '<span class="incorrect">';
$fontEnd = '</span>';
for ($i = 0; $i < $nb; $i++) {
array_push($original,$matches[0][$i]);
array_push($marked,$fontStart.$matches[0][$i].$fontEnd);
}
$useranswer = str_replace($original, $marked, $useranswer);

Unfortunately, the "string interpretation mechanism" must have changed between Moodle 1.5.3 and 1.6, because now the tag markers <> are "translated" to &lt; and &gt; so that instead of displaying:

What are the colors of the French flag?
Your answer : blue white red green and orange
One or more colors are wrong...

we are getting:

Your answer : blue white red <span class="incorrect">green</span> and <span class="incorrect">orange</span>

And for the same reason we are getting the same problem with the displaying of the <br /> tag in the MULTICHOICE question in file continue.php, line 306: $studentanswer .= '<br />'.$answer->answer;

I hope you can find a solution (and post it here, please). Thanks in advance.

Joseph

PS.- Various label strings are not finalized yet, but that is depending on language files, and it can wait.