Hotpot (plugin)

Hello Gordon,

As far as I can see, the reason why the scores are not recorded is because there is a long wait (30-40 seconds) after an exercise is completed before scores are recorded in some Hot Potatoes exercises using modified source files. The students tend to leave the page before the wait is over and so the scores are not recorded.

The modification prevents the popup feedback box appearing and so it can't be dismissed. (The feedback appears in the Instruction field).

This problem only occurs on our Moodle 1.6.5 site - our production site. On other sites (1.5.4; 1.8.2; 1.8.3), the modified exercises based on the html file work normally (the exercises based on the xml files work too but all the modifications are lost). The unmodified exercise works on 1.6.5. The problem has only appeared in the last few weeks. In the past (in the spring) the modified exercises worked on 1.6.5 with no problem.

The exercise validates on the W3C validator.

Example exercises have been uploaded to your testing site where they work just fine:

Unmodified as regards the popup box:
Colours htm
colours jmt

Modified:
colours htm no box
colours jmt no box

The university site administrator, Simon Dupuich, has tried to download and install the most recent version of the HotPot module but gets the message that our version of Moodle is too old. Is there somewhere he can find the right HotPot module for 1.6.5 or do you have another suggestion for solving the problem?

Simon has written to the French forum about this problem but no one has answered. Simon feels his English is not good enough to write here but I'm sure he'll understand your reply better than I will.

All the best,
Glenys