Moodle in English: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

I'm running Moodle 3.2 and have deleted some assignments from one of my modules. In the gradebook setup I get the following error:

Warning: Activity deletion in progress! Some grades are about to be removed.

Also I can't delete the item from the list of activities.

Ant idea why this is the case and how can I delete these from the setup page and remove this error message?

Many thanks.

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I found the solution, I though my updated cron hadn't worked (but it just hadn't run) and running this cleared the error and removed the entries.

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Colin Fraser - Sunday, 8 January 2017, 8:14 AM

AFAIK, I think the error is generated when the course itself has not been reset, but that is based on an incident from about v2.2, which may or may not be at all relevant to your situation. Did you reset the course before trying to delete the gradebook items? Or did you try to delete the course and gradebook items at the same time?

Also, I understand the grades recorded remain with the student who undertook the exam, just the exam itself is removed.

But it is a good pickup, working through the cron, good advice.

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by pattama Mi - Thursday, 15 June 2017, 4:05 PM

Could you please tell me. How to remove step-by-step.
I have the same problem. I'm running Moodle 3.2.2+ (Build: 20170503)

thank you!

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Re: ตอบ: Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Luciana Marins - Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 2:12 AM

Good afternoon

I just saw your post on "Warning: Activity is being deleted! Some notes are about to be removed."

So I decided to get in touch to see if you have already solved the problem, because I am facing this same problem.

I've run CRON, but the problem persists.

I wonder if for you this one to run the CRON worked or you had to do something else.

Thank you!

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by darrel espino - Tuesday, 24 January 2017, 10:14 AM

what is cron? can you please provide the step-by-step procedure to remove the said activity. i have the same problem. thankyou!

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Joel Kerth - Wednesday, 25 January 2017, 8:19 PM

Simply type: http://your.site.moodle/admin/cron.php

you'll have to let it do it's job for a little while...

Et Voilà!

Refresh your gradebook page and that should be all!

best regards!

Joel

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by sheik Ibrahim - Thursday, 12 October 2017, 5:05 PM

Hi joel

After running the cron still the Warning message deletion in progress appears can you help

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Rose Andrade - Wednesday, 18 October 2017, 1:19 AM

I have the same problem, the message still appears after running cron in the server. Can someone help?

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Vasco Tavares - Wednesday, 25 October 2017, 8:13 PM

Even after running Cron this issue isn't fixed, is there any more hints on how to get rid of

"Warning: Activity deletion in progress! Some grades are about to be removed."?

Using Moodle 3.3

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Salvador Orozco Maciel - Friday, 1 December 2017, 7:32 AM

In my case, the problem was an external plugin that prevented the process cron.php from being executed completely. I solved it by uninstalling that plugin and then execute the process cron.php manually to make sure it runs correctly until it completes. I hope this will help you. Greetings from Mexico

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Vasco Tavares - Friday, 1 December 2017, 3:18 PM

Thanks Salvador for your reply. The issue got fixed.

Br,

Vasco

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by William Castiblanco - Tuesday, 5 December 2017, 9:12 PM

Salvador, ¿cuál fue el plugin que desinstalaste para que te funcionara?, pues tengo el mismo problema.

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Salvador Orozco Maciel - Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 11:40 PM

Hola William,

Este fue el plugin que me dió problemas https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_zoom

De cualquier manera, te recomiendo que revises detalladamente el cron.php cuando lo ejecutes para ver si se terminó de ejecutar correctamente, eso te puede dar más pistas para resolver el problema.

Espero te sirva.

Saludos.

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Lewis Carr - Friday, 13 April 2018, 6:31 PM

I can also confirm that deleted activities won't be updated in the gradebook until cron has run successfully.

Cron definitely fixes this issue.

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Eric Lin - Sunday, 3 June 2018, 3:32 PM

How do you run cron manually? When I use the browser-based guidance, I get

"!!! Sorry, internet access to this page has been disabled by the administrator. !!!"

or "Command line scripts can not be executed from the web interface".

It seems like I have the same problem, but not I"m trying to figure out how to run cron manually. I have this hosted by third party - siteground.com.

moodle 3.4

thanks!

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Helen Foster - Monday, 4 June 2018, 4:22 PM

Hi Eric,

It sounds as though the setting 'Cron execution via command line only' in the Site administration is enabled for your site. Can you try disabling it?

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by David Nawrocki - Wednesday, 23 May 2018, 11:00 PM

This worked for me. I had a Zoom plugin that kept posting items to a recycle bin in one of my courses. Essentially I think it was creating so many instances of itself and deleting them that it clogged up my cron. After deleting the Zoom plugin, which I didn't need anyway, everything started working and after a few minutes the Activity Deletion notices went away. Hope this helps.

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Betsy Springer - Saturday, 22 September 2018, 5:42 AM

How did you determine which plugin was the problem?

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by Ilona Daģe - Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 9:50 PM

Still have that problem, some ideas? cron.php is executing every hour but it don't help. we have Moodle 3.5.2+

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Re: Atbilde: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Helen Foster - Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 10:28 PM

Ilona, cron needs to run every minute, not every hour, as mentioned in the documentation Cron.

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Re: Atbilde: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Kim Solis - Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 11:08 PM

I found out that my cron was in fact not running as I though. When I open the notificaciones, I am told that cron has not been run for more than 24 hrs. It seems my cron job stalls because of a language pack conflict that I haven’t been able to solve, but that is a another forum!

Long story short: I have to manually update my language packs and then manually run my cron job (clicking on the notificacion about the cron problem) and then voila! The issue of the grade book item is solved!

It still happens periodically and I go through the process each time. Works for other cron related problems too!

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by Ilona Daģe - Wednesday, 10 October 2018, 2:56 PM

We executed script every hour from web-server https://server/admin/cron.php, possibly interrupted after 5 minutes timeout. As a result, never finished his work, now we execute command-line CLI script “php/moodle/admin/cli/cron.php” who worked more than 1 hour and all problems solved!

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Re: Atbilde: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion [Solved]

by Helen Foster - Wednesday, 10 October 2018, 10:47 PM

Kim and Ilona, good to hear that the problem is solved. Thanks for posting your solutions.

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Re: Atbilde: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion [Solved]

by Brian Pool - Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 9:24 AM

Helen,

We are having the same issue. I think I need to know where to look to see what is causing our issue.

Moodle 3.5+
Ubunti 16.04
Cron runs via CLI every minute
I have purged the cache.
AD_HOC currently has 86 items.

If I can find the issue I really need to fix it. I did try backing up and restoring all the courses listed in the AD_HOC file as one post from 2017 suggested. It did not fix the issue, but the restore lost all the grade items and categories.

If someone could tell me where a log file might show the failure, that would be great.

Brian

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Re: Deleted gradebook item still visible with error after deletion

by Howard Miller - Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 10:39 PM

Just a note for anybody experiencing this....

Module deletion is an example of an 'adhoc task'. These are tasks that are simply set up to run by the cron and the next possible opportunity. They will run *last* after everything else has run in the cron. They do not appear in the list of scheduled tasks in the admin settings (as they are "one off" tasks).

The problem comes if the task fails. If the task throws an exception it will be re-queued but with a delay. The delay gets longer on each failure up to a day. So, if something is going wrong the task will quite quickly retry once a day. You are unlikely to spot this.

If you run out of ideas and suspect this, check the take mdl_task_adhoc. Check for instances of '\core_course\task\course_delete_modules' with high 'faildelays'.

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