General help

Thank you very much for updating this.

Moodle 1.8.1+ (2007021510) Windows XP SP2

It is working well when I lock a Certificate based on Quiz Grades.

However, when there is no quiz (grade lock), it doesn’t seem to be working.
I set up 2 PDF resources and Locked PDF2 based on the user accessing PDF1.
1) I can access PDF2 before accessing PDF1
2) After accessing PDF1, it shows no completion
3) When I add a quiz to the course, the completion marks appear for PDF1 and PDF2. At this point I have not set any locks on the quiz, I just set up the quiz.

Bernard,
Add my thanks to those of John and others. First blush seems to work for my limited test. I will try duplicating John's error.

In my test this morning, I downloaded a fresh windows package and set it up as a localhost in a folder moodle181_AL and installed it. I brought in a special 1.8 course with 4 lessons in a topic as a new course. Finally I downloaded and unpacked AL for 1.8.1 to /moodle181_AL/moodle, went to notification and it installed flawlessly. I added it as a block to my course. I added a 2 question quiz to a topic. Notice I did not install Certificate (something I will do), nor did I use the Lesson contingency feature, because this test is about AL.

All my lessons have questions but I focused upon Lesson 2 that had 4 questions. I set Lesson 3 lock to need 2 correct questions from Lesson 2 and did not hide it. I set my Quiz to need 4 correct questions from Lesson 2 and hide it.

My student1 logged in and went straight to lesson 2 and missed every question. Quiz was hidden and student1 could see but not enter Lesson 3. My student1 went back and retook Lesson 2 and answered 2 questions correctly. Was able to enter Lesson 3 but not see the quiz.

I logged back in as admin and changed the lock on the quiz to 2 correct. When my student1 logged in the quiz was revealed.

These are the features I care about , so it seems to work for me ! I don't hide or make activities contingent upon viewing resources or participating in forums. I didn't notice the time delay feature before and that is of interest to us.

Next up in the order I will test:

1. the time delay by adding a second quiz with student2
2. add a resource and make Lesson 2 contingent upon viewing it with student3
3. add Certificate and see what happens with student4.

Hope this helps, Thanks again for your work.

Hi Benard,
I went a little out of sequence. Right under NewsForum I added textpage1 and textpage2. I then made textpage2 contingent upon viewing textpage1. I set the lock on Lesson1 to be hidden until textpage2 was viewed. Everything worked as I expected when I logged in as a new student.

I also played with the activity complete and prereq checkboxes. Which also seemed to work as I expected.

Then I went back to textpage2 and set the time delay to 5 minutes. Ooops. SQL error. I could only see news forum and textpage1, nothing elese in the course (possibly the activity complete box for textpage2).

I changed the site setting to see reasonable php error messages. Attached is an UTF-8 text file with them. I then went back and reset the site to developer's error message and this is what showed.

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://localhost/course/view.php?id=3
Line Number 207, Column 14: &string(67) "SELECT * FROM mdl_user_students WHERE userid = '2' AND course = '3'"
-------------^

All greek to me. It is a beautiful Sunday morning down here, so I may go outside and do some more yard work. Best.

Thanks for your work on this, Bernard.

I tried it on our Moodle 1.8.1 this morning and received the following error on opening the home page of our Moodle installation:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function isunlocked() in [path removed]\course\lib.php on line 1334

I managed to correct it using a 'fix' suggested here.. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=60406 though that then caused a further error in course\lip.php. I'm afraid I had to undo the changes AL made for the time being as we only have the implementation on a production server but I'm hoping to replicate our Moodle install and try again to see if I can get it working. I'm afraid I'm no pro when it comes to php, though, but will see if I can get any further....

Lisa

Hi Bernard,

Great work.  I have tested AL v.2 for 1.8.1 on a version = 2007021505 release = '1.8 +' running on WinXP, and a Moodle 1.8 (2007021501) installed through Cpanel on a hosted server (RH linux).  In both I have topics section on, and experience the problem reported by Heather P in the discussion about AL for 1.5.  The front page gets wiped out.

It seems that the AL print_section() is breaking the front page sections.  So I did the following.

course/lib.php - created function print_frontpage_section() that is a copy of original print_section().  The original print_section() comes from 1.8+.  This is because AL's print_section() breaks the front page when it has a topic section.  Also added:
$str->lock      = get_string("lock","lock");
$str->unlock    = get_string("unlock","lock");
to function make_editing_buttons().

index.php - changed print_section() to print_frontpage_section().

topics/format.php & weeks/format.php - added:
$strlock = get_string('lock','lock');
$strunlock = get_string('unlock','lock');

I am attaching a zip file of the above modified files.  It also include an error log.  Can you tell me if I am on the right track?  It seems to work fine on my servers.

Roel

Does it backup and restore?

We made a version for 1.7 that does backup and restore, but it requires this patch for backing up and restoring blocks (gives full backup and restore functionality to blocks, which means you can backup and restore your AL settings from one course to another):

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8270

We can't release our version until the patch makes it into core, so please vote for it.

Is there a way to download the zip file Activity Locking V 2.0 for 1.8.1 only?

I try for days to download it from table, but nothing. Maybe the server is down.

if anyone could upload it.

Thanks

Katsis Marios

Hi Bernard. Been away on another project for a month. I am having trouble with the http://206.167.134.155/bb/authoring1/Activity_Locking_V2_0_for_181_June22_07.zip
link. ..134.155 is not responding.

Could be dust in my network connection Thought I would give it a test on a 1.8.2 Moodle.

Best Chris

Hi Bernard,
A continuation of my previous post. I duplicated the simple lesson. Added Certificate Pro to the Moodle 1.8.2. Put Mr. DimWitt into a student role. Made sure the locks were set the same and added one for Certificate.

Amazing, it took Mr. Witt at least two attempts at everything to move on! But you will be please to know eventually he received his certificate. The teacher had to reset lesson settings to score the max on any retake.

I only used AL for the conditional settings. I DID NOT use any in Lesson nor any in Certificate. Everything worked the way it should for me.

Note: I will now attempt to have the teacher break it. I am not sure if Lesson and Certificate might "fight" with AL, but as long as I know the path of few problems, I am happy.

Thanks for your continued effort. Chris

Bernard, could you please remove some of the extra entries in the moodle modules database?

Instead of an entry for each version of this patch there should be one entry in there with links to all the different entries (perhaps just a link to that table in the docs, even).

Thanks for all your work on this, I know a lot of people find it useful.