I would like to encourage a few more beta testers to come forward who are willing to test the quiz module in Moodle 1.6.
What I would like you to do is to create a copy of your existing database and then check out the code for Moodle 1.6 from CVS into a separate directory and run it with this copied database. Then you will have both your old production copy of Moodle and the testing copy of the new Moodle running side by side and can check that the quizzes still work the way they should in Moodle 1.6. If you notice anything strange please report it in the bug tracker.
Another thing I would like you to test is the backup/restore code. It should be possible to backup courses with quizzes including student attempts and then restore them to a new course and everything should look the same as in the old course. Because the quizzes and questions have so many different options it would be really useful if many different people could test this to really make sure it all works in all cases.
The really important thing is that you MUST NOT use Moodle 1.6 beta on your production servers until this testing is completed successfully.
I would be happy to beta test the new quiz module. I could even get a group of students to try logging in simultaneously to a quiz to test that aspect of it; however, with the problems with CVS I am not sure where the best place to get the most updated files is. Even the file dates on the zipped files seem to be a few days behind. When I browse through cvs at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/moodle/moodle/mod/quiz/?sortby=date&only_with_tag=HEAD#dirlist
it shows that the youngest file is 6 weeks old. Any suggestions you have to really have the latest code would be greatly appreciated. Peace.
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Dave, thank you very much for that help. You can also find it on the CVS help page in MoodleDocs. Anonymous CVS is unfortunately still up to 5 hours behind developer CVS. The good news is that you can now browse the most up-to-date version of the code at http://moodle.cvs.sourceforge.net/moodle/moodle/, so you can always check whether your version is up-to-date.
Thanks Dave - I had modified the moodle docs with the new cvs links but when I was browsing CVS I was not using http://moodle.cvs.sourceforge.net/moodle/moodle/ as Gustav pointed out and hence I think I was looking at much older data. I need to look into the details of using CVS - I have one machine that I use it with; however, I do some custom modifications that I would not want overwritten. I'm sure CVS can handle it, I'm just not sure how yet. Peace.
I don't have the technical skills necessary to do such a test on my own server but I would be happy to do some more testing on the the test.moodle.com server if someone were to update the version of Moodle installed there, which appears to be 9 days old at the moment.
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Those who use the various import formats. Could you at least check that they all still work with a reasonable range of questions.
Your help is appreciated.
Those who use the various import formats. Could you at least check that they all still work with a reasonable range of questions.
Your help is appreciated.
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Thanks Pierre,
I will make sure the changes are incorporated. Please also post an example webct data file so that I can be confident that I have applied the diffs correctly before I commit (I do not have access to webct).
I will make sure the changes are incorporated. Please also post an example webct data file so that I can be confident that I have applied the diffs correctly before I commit (I do not have access to webct).
Hi Gustav,
I tested upgrading from copies ( not backup ) of 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 complete sites and all tables were updated correctly, quiz, questions, images and grades were also correctly updated.
But I cannot test the regrade tab ( who should change nothing ) because my old sites have a workaround for matching questions with some same answers.
If you think it may be usefull, I have also copies of old sites with versions 1.1, 1.3.1, 1.4.1 and I can try to upgrade these too.
Thanks for your relentless work,
Bernard
I tested upgrading from copies ( not backup ) of 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 complete sites and all tables were updated correctly, quiz, questions, images and grades were also correctly updated.
But I cannot test the regrade tab ( who should change nothing ) because my old sites have a workaround for matching questions with some same answers.
If you think it may be usefull, I have also copies of old sites with versions 1.1, 1.3.1, 1.4.1 and I can try to upgrade these too.
Thanks for your relentless work,
Bernard
I broke one of your rules. I have been running Moodle 1.6 beta 5 on my production site. I just gave final exams to 138 High School Seniors. We use a lab and aprox 30 students take the test during each period. I am happy to report that everything worked perfectly. The new features in the quiz module works great. I had no problems at all. I also import my questions from examview. the import functions worked fine. I tested 1.6 for two weeks before I put it in production, so I didn't go into it completely blind. I had one question that the answer was wrong, so I had to fix the answer and use regrade, it performed exactly as it was suppose to .