Hi Tim
I know, this is a user level (my) problem. Since you were talking of usability, here is an example, first-hand, all happened this week.
I was called to repeat a course which I gave two years ago. It is an instructor-led, multiple session, on-line workshop. The original one was in Moodle 3.9 LTS, this time it is 4.1 LTS. This time it is also a different institution so I migrated the course content through course backup and restore. I update the text a lot, change images, screen-shots, etc. but these are never a problem.
The critical component is the quiz. Each session has an auto-graded quiz, not high-stake, rather as a teaching tool. Means, unlimited attempts are allowed, the highest grade counts, rather long, 15-25 questions each, and always the same questions, in the same order, no randomization. On the new site all worked straightaway, well, until the pilot students pointed out to me that certain questions need corrections. Basically, the sample user last time was like
03c123456, this time he is
user000. Also rather than naming the three text files involved in those exercises
knave.txt,
queen.txt, etc. I decided to omit the file extension. They are now
knave,
queen, etc.
That is when the confusion started. When I review the quiz I see "Edit question" at each quesion. So I corrected a question. But the corrections didn't stick. Now I see, you've warned me of
MDL-78547. But conducted the 5 session (5 week) course in 5 days as a crash course with my pilot "students" (who are the teaching assistants when the real course will be conducted). What I want to say is that we were moving at crash speed, so little reserves for the unexpected.
Anyway, then I saw the padlock sign next to the quiz in the course index, and thought that the attempts are blocking the editing and deleted all the attempts. That didn't make a difference though. Then went to the question bank and edited the question. No change in the quiz. Then came back to find that the question is in duplicate (version?). One of them is still in the original state. Another one has half the changes (sample user done but not file renaming dropping .txt). What I don't understand further is why all the questions have duplicates.
I know, I didn't get the changes to the quiz behaviour. My mind is frozen somewhere in the ice age. It didn't record the previous round of changes (to the question bank, 3.11?) either. But the good news is that the real course is in three weeks, I will somehow add a new "work-flow" to my collection, which won't melt in to my frozen mind. Which compels me to postpone the corrections, which is not a good thing.