Unable to delete submitted assignment

Unable to delete submitted assignment

by Dave Weninger -
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Dear Sir/Madam,

Attached is two screenshots.

Our Moodle version is 3.6.1, Theme: Essential 3.6,

Students reported that he uploaded a file to be submitted as a assignment. However, when he clicked "Save changes" after he was attempting to delete the uploaded file. It prompts "Nothing was submitted." The File submission area is not allowed to be empty. It is obviously unreasonable.

We tested that for older version Moodle 2.6, the deletion of submitted file at assignment is allowed. The message "Nothing was submitted" would not be prompted.

Please advise if there is any setting to allow the deletion in Moodle 3.6.1. Or, Is it really a software bug at this Moodle version?

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Kelvin Ma



Attachment submission1.JPG
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In reply to Dave Weninger

Re: Unable to delete submitted assignment

by Acqua Alta -
Hi Kelvin,
This is an expected behavior in Moodle 3.6.1 (and even some older versions), that was changed in Moodle 3.7.

At first this behavior was reported as a bug but resolved as not a bug:
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-59577
Then an improvement was suggested, and was finally implemented in Moodle 3.7:
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-64377

BTW, if you think that upgrading to Moodle 3.7 would solve all your problems regarding submitting assignment, think again:
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-65391
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