Every bit of documentation I have looked at (both Cole books, on-line documentation, and this forum) says "set the timer". It doesn't say how. I want my students to have 2-minutes and 30-seconds to take a short quiz. How do I set the time variable to do that?
a very perplexed teacher.
mark c. miller
noblesville indiana
On the quiz settings form, there is a time limit box. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Adding/updating_a_quiz#Timing_section
I would say that what Helen suggests is the best workaround for now. I now there have been previous discussions about adding in the ability to set for a student a particular time factor so that the teacher could provide them with extended time, alternate dates, etc. I remember discussing this on the forums and advocating for being able to provide custom start, end, and timer information for a particular student. This would require some additional tables in the database and complicates things. I thought it was in the tracker, but I couldn't find it by doing a quick search. Peace - Anthony
Yes, I saw that; the problem is it's not specific about the form you use to enter the time. The entry says:
"By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit ...".
It doesn't say how to compute the time to enter. I tried 2:30 (two-minutes and thirty-seconds) as an entry and received the error message "you must enter a number here".
I then computed the number of seconds in 2:30 minutes (120), and it appears that the quiz is now available for 120 hours.
If you can tell me how to enter minutes/seconds for the time variable, I'd appreciate it.
I'll be happy to add the information to the wiki entry, but since it's your work, I thought you might like to get credit for the change/update.
Tnx and regards
Mark C. Miller
Noblesville Indiana
"By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit ...".
It doesn't say how to compute the time to enter. I tried 2:30 (two-minutes and thirty-seconds) as an entry and received the error message "you must enter a number here".
I then computed the number of seconds in 2:30 minutes (120), and it appears that the quiz is now available for 120 hours.
If you can tell me how to enter minutes/seconds for the time variable, I'd appreciate it.
I'll be happy to add the information to the wiki entry, but since it's your work, I thought you might like to get credit for the change/update.
Tnx and regards
Mark C. Miller
Noblesville Indiana
Here is the forum Tim is referring to, Timer repositioning in Quiz Module
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=90880
I found it very helpful for resizing out timer.
Cheers
Teresa
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=90880
I found it very helpful for resizing out timer.
Cheers
Teresa