Assignment

How is this working out, Miroslav? It sounds like a good mod.

-- Art

Dear Miroslav,
I have tried your module and found it very usefull. May be, we will use it on our production server at CTU Prague in the summer semester. Do you have any new updates, comment, or recommendations based on your experience using in on a production server for large classes during the finished semester?

Ota

I have found a minor strange feature/bug:
Teachers may assess accidentally an assignment before the student opens the activity and gets his random file. The student will never receive the random file from Moodle in such case.
Of course, the teacher may choose some file and send it to the student by email.
Ota

Great mod!

Is it possible to give several random files to the same student?

Background: the student should get a random audio file, work out an answer, get the next random audio file, work out an answer, and so on.

Hi.

I can't get it to work.
I have installed it, made moddata, random and assignment and solution folders, numeric subfolders for each (assignment and solution), created random assignment, uploaded 4 files for assignments and solutions.
As admin, I can see everything.
As student, I can see only upload file form, but no link for downloading assignment...

I use moodle 1.9.2+ and PostgreSQL database. I think the problem has occured beacuse of usage of Postgres, but I don't know how to find nor fix problem.

Any help regarding this problem would be appreciated as I find this module extremly usefull.

Best regards,
Vedran Mušica

Hi, Miroslav.

It`s a good type of assignment. But I have an idea. Add setting to hide the link to the file before date beginning.

El contingut del missatge al fòrum s'ha suprimit i ja no hi podeu accedir.

Hi, Miroslav!
I've been playing with the random assignment recently to integrate it in my courses and got some warnings (with php debug = ALL):

1.
Notice: Undefined index: random_assignment in /var/www/html_new/file.php on line 108
-- while trying to view files as teacher (no id is appended to the url), the file.php is a patched one - from the module archive

2.
I've also got warnings about undefined variable "icon" in lines 79/80 of assignment.class.php. (well, I changed that to icon1 and icon2 respectively and that seemed to solve the problem)

3.
There's a warning about "file_array_2" undeclared on line 151. I guess that happens if the if statement is wrong. Don't know if that's correct, but "else {$file_array_2[]="NUL";}" did the trick.


p.s. Thanks again for the extremely useful module.

We have developed a version of Random assignment that works with Moodle 2.0. It is still in development and should not be used in production servers but only for testing and for feedback from community. It is available at Modules and Plugins page.

From the readme: Random assignment is an attempt to handle larger classes of students. For this purpose, we assume a series of html (txt, pdf, ...) files with the same structure but different numbers. In addition, we can provide corresponding files with hints to solutions for teachers. Then, each student gets one of these files randomly and teacher can see corresponding solution.

What is new:

• the plugin is based on advanced upload and not upload of single file as before. Thus, students can upload multiple fles, teacher can give feedback, notes, etc.
• special directories for assignments and solutions are not anymore needed - each assignment hold its files automatically
• backup/restore works normally
• file protection of solution files is now automatic

What still does not work: upgrade from 1.9 version. This will be finished soon. You can create new random assignments in Moodle 2.0 that should work as before. Older random assignments from 1.9 will continue to work only if assignment files are again copied to their place in the assignment editing screen.

Please, have it tested and send comments/bugs/suggestions.