essay questions

essay questions

by Ms. Nouf AlRashed -
Number of replies: 2

Auto-save for essay questions in the Moodle quiz activity.  Moodle (3.9)

A few students' answers were deleted without a trace while attempting the quiz. In some cases, the answers would turn into links. In other cases, the answers would turn to links and then turn back to the original answer losing part of the answer.
Please keep in mind that our auto-save delay is set to 1 minute.

I would appreciate any input on what could be causing this issue


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Re: essay questions

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Such a thing could happen if the server is very slow or the network is very slow so that the communication between the server and the client won't complete. So could be a result of the Slow loading times on Moodle you're experiencing elsewhere. Do those students get auto-save warnings when they answer those essay type questions?
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Re: essay questions

by Russell Waldron -
It can also happen if the student opens the same question in a second window. The edits in one of the windows will be overwritten by the other. If the last window closed has no text, the student experience will be that they typed, saved and lost their answer.
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