I put a time limit on my quizzes, and the countdown timer is displayed while the students are taking the quiz. It works fine with Firefox (and Safari, I think). But in IE, the timer hovers over the question/answer and forces the user to scroll out of the way. I think it must be an IE problem, but is there any way for either me in my setup, or my students as they start the quiz, to take better control over the countdown position?
Hello Stan,
I have done the following: 1) made the timer "transparent" and 2) placed it on the right hand side of the screen by adding/changing a few lines in :
theme/standard/styles_layout.css
#mod-quiz-attempt #timer .generalbox {
width:150px;
/* PKJ change transparency all modern browsers */
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity:0.5;
-khtml-opacity: 0.5;
opacity: 0.5;
}
#mod-quiz-attempt #timer {
position:absolute;
/*top:100px; is set by js*/
right:10px
}
You may also look at some other very interesting approaches that Moodle users have developed in the Moodle forum:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62602
read in particular the postings of Anthony Borrow and Peter Johnson.
Have fun!