Dear Lesson gurus,
this may be almost pointless in asking this since I am using not only using an old version of Moodle 2.0... but previous discussions have already pointed out that the "Email graded essays" function contains bugs.
We (a university-run course in the UK) have nevertheless - prior to discovering this bug - introduced a new form of assessment for our surgical students that relies on this function. We require our students to submit an answer to a scenario posted as an Essay Question within a Lesson. The tutors are then required to review these and email the students back with their response, using the "Email graded essays" link.
It is only now (I know I know - should have tested more thoroughly!) that we get the following error message:
"Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Could not load preference message_provider_mod_lesson_graded_essay_loggedoff. Does the component and name you supplied to message_send() match a row in message_providers? Message providers must appear in the database so users can configure how they will be notified when they receive messages.
More information about this error"
My predicament is that we are trying to negotiate outsourcing the hosting of our courses (currently hosted on campus) which will include an upgrade to the latest version of Moodle; but this is taking time to iron out all the data security details. In the mean time, I may be able to ask one of the technical guys to fix the code of our existing service if I can identify what is wrong.
Any help from this forum would be massively appreciated since it is quite embarrassing now having introduced this new assessment method, only to have to admit to our students it doesn't work.
Andrew