Moodle in English: I don't want students to modify some files

Virtual Programming Lab (plugin)

I don't want students to modify some files

by Erhan Akan - Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 1:34 AM

Hello sir,
Thanks for that great tool you created.

I want my student to create the header file of the given 2 source files.

For example, I want to upload 2 files including calculator.cpp and main.cpp. And I want them to write "ONLY" the calculator.h file. So, I don't want students to modify the calculator.cpp and main.cpp files. They should not be changed in order to test their knowledge if they can write header files or not.

However without modifying the calculator.h file, students can modify main.cpp to make the program run. Is there any way to protect these 2 files?

Thanks for your help, have a nice week

Re: I don't want students to modify some files

by Juan Carlos Rodríguez-del-Pino - Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 5:18 AM

At this moment VPL does not allow to mark requested files as read-only.

But you can use this workaround:

Add the file calculator.h empty at activity setting > "requested files". The student can not change the name of the file.
Add the main.cpp and the calculator.cpp to the activity description. The student has enough information to resolve the problem.
Add the main.cpp and the calculator.cpp to activity setting > advanced setting > Execution files. These files will go with the submitted to be compiled with each run, debug or evaluation.
You can remove the main.cpp and the calculator.cpp files from the description if you add them also to the "requested files". No problem if the student modifies these requested files, the files with the same name at "advanced setting > Execution files" will replace them before send the code files to the execution server.

Best regards,
Juan Carlos.

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Ynt: Re: I don't want students to modify some files

by Erhan Akan - Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 6:18 AM

Hello again sir,

Thanks for your advice. It worked perfectly. Have a nice and healthy weeks.

Sincerely

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