Gradebook

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

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Zbigniew Fiedorowicz, You provided me information and assistance in the Easy Manual Grade Entering Thread, but I decided to move the conversation here as it seems more pertinent to this thread and the columns arewider in this thread! Our conversation was at http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=24881#151864 in case you want to reference it.

As far as I can tell, all of the problems that I had with the installation were due to errors I made, or in one case a file may have not copied correctly. I am going to keep the following information here on the off chance it may help someone else who has the same problems I did. ~written after everything else below.

I decided to try to install the module but I had some problems. My guess is that they are simple mistakes based on my ignorance, so please forgive me if I ask the equivalent of what a "left click" is.

I then just went back to the original directory and downloaded the zipped file (exam.zip). I should have figure this out to begin with. I uploaded the zipped file but then I couldn't get the filemanager in CPanel to unzip it. (Or so I thought, after the fact it now appears that I may have unzipped it, but in the wrong location!) I then decided to unzip the files on my PC. I then created the folders indicated in the zip files folder structure and uploaded the correct files into the folders. I got some errors when I logged into my moodle site. These errors were my first hint that I had successfully unzipped the folder structure on the server, but in the mod/ directory rather than the moodle/ directory the way the zip file structure required.

I cleaned up the incorrect folders ...mod/mod/ and mod/lang/, that were created by the erroneous unzip, and then the errors went away when logging in to my moodle site.

______ below here is the current problem. I think the ones above were solved ____

I then realized that I did not know what new interface to expect now that the module appeared to be loaded, and no error messages were showing. When opening up the grades feature in my moodle class, everything looked the same, so I decided to create a new activity in my class. When the activity dropdown showed modulename as the last option, I was pretty sure I had found at least one of the changes made with my attempt to install the module.

So when selecting modulename as a new activity, a new form comes up that says

Adding a new modulename as a title and then, lower, it labels the description field as description and uses the label maximumgrade and examdate as labels for the appropriate fields.

So, in the end, did I do something wrong? Is there anything I should change? Are the double bracketed labels normal or do they indicate a problem with the installation.

I apologize for the length of this narrative, it wasn't going to be so long but I kept trying things as I was writing and then had to add the description of the attempt to this note -- one of the dangers of tabbed browsing with Firefox!

Thanks to any and all who provide some helpful comments. To the rest of you, I hope that this technological comedy of errors made you smile.

P.s. Oops, I did just get an error stating Module "lang" is not readable - check permissions, so I must need to go back and double check what I have done in the lang/ folder.

P.p.s I removed the lang/ subfolder from the mod/ folder and the error went away. When double checking the new activities dropdown it still listed modulename as an option. I doublechecked the exam.php file in the lang/en/ folder and found that it was zero (0) kilobytes. Doublechecking the file on my PC showed that it was 2k so I deleted the empty file and then reuploaded the exam.php into the lang/en/ subfile. The bracketed labels listed above went away! Yeah!

First of all. Thanks, you've saved my life! LOL That is the solution that I desperately needed.

Now, my doubt, altough it doesn't have to do with your modules diretly (but I am sure you can help me out) is the following:

My grade book will be plain simple: only two grades named "AF" and "AS", so I created two exams and also categorized them into the gradebook. I could put the grades and so... So far so good. Also, I set up the weights 50/50 and 0 to uncategorized grades. The problem is that the total is still first grade plus second. Is it possible to make moodle divide the total by the number of activities?

Thanks in advance.

PS: I'm a language teacher, meaning I am awful at maths. LOL

Dear Zbigniew Fiedorowicz,

I had a difficult time in installing the exam module. I think there is an error in the file mod/exam/db/mysql.php, the exam table is installed but it cannot be accessed by users who installed their tables with CFG->prefix. When you create a table, pls. concat the $CFG->prefix, just like this (located inside the function exam_upgrade) :

CREATE TABLE `{$CFG->prefix}$modulename` (
          `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
          `course` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
          `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
          `description` text NOT NULL,
          `format` tinyint(2) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
          `{$modulename}date` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
          `grade` int(10) NOT NULL default '0',
          `timemodified` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
          PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
        ) COMMENT='Defines exam'

Hi, I used the module and it worked fine, thanks

But it did return the following warnings

Warning: fopen(C:\moodledata/filter/admin_1140452431) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\moodle\mod\exam\examgrades.php on line 196

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\moodle\mod\exam\examgrades.php on line 197

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\moodle\mod\exam\examgrades.php on line 198

Hi, the ability to upload and record offline grading sounds like a module that I really could use.  Could someone give me the link to download the latest version and some more instruction on what I do with the file once I download it to the moodle server.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks, Diane

Hi. When I first installed your modules (exam and homework) it worked fine on Moodle 1.5. Then I updated to Moddle 1.6 and they kept working fine.

Now I'm testing Moodle 1.7. I updated a testing site and, unfortunately, the modules don't work now.

I know you have no responsibility, I just wondered if you're updating your modules or if you could , perhaps, give us some hints on how to make them work in Moodle 1.7.

Thanks in advance.