Assignment

I am wondering if the general community agrees with the above statement that "unoconv is a problem and very unstable"?

We cannot just switch to Google converter as privacy issues in our province of BC are quite strict.

We had the same issues as you did Blair and as a workaround we are now restarting the service automatically twice per day to clear up any backlog.

I find myself lurking in the unoconv community once again as one of our faculty just discovered that a portion of their student's document did not convert and he ended up deducting marks. Luckily the student's original Word document showed the actual content which happened to be a Word style for citations and bibliography. I tested the concept of converting the style to text prior to submitting and the conversion works fine after that - but I would certainly not expect a student to do this when uploading an assignment? Is this a "known issue" with unoconv? Perhaps this is just a bug with our installation/versions - I don't know as I haven't delved into it in great detail yet as I just learned about it today. We are running Moodle v3.9.

Very interested to hear from others using unoconv though and their thoughts on some of this stuff. Whether it's just "configuration" or if this tool is truly unstable.