Please help a novice! Used override to allow teachers to take quizzes

Please help a novice! Used override to allow teachers to take quizzes

by Cheryl Young -
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Dear all,

Please help a novice!

I have version 1.8.3.

I want teachers in a particular course to be able to take quizzes in that course. I created a new user, gave her teacher status, and I used the "override" feature to change mod/quiz:attempt to "allow" for teachers in that course.

She can't take the quiz. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Cheryl
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Re: Please help a novice! Used override to allow teachers to take quizzes

by Steve Hyndman -

The first thing you are doing wrong is using roles.

Create a second account for those teachers and enroll them as students.

Steve

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Re: Please help a novice! Used override to allow teachers to take quizzes

by John Isner -
Quiz currrently can allow either preview or attempt, but not both. If the user is allowed to do both, Quiz defaults to preview. It's a bug in Quiz, not roles. See MDL-13208.

My advice would be slightly different from Steve's. First, I would continue to use roles smile Second, I would set up a separate course for teachers. You can use it not just for the quiz, but for other teacher-related resources and activities.
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Re: Please help a novice! Used override to allow teachers to take quizzes

by Tim Hunt -
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Yes, you need to override the teacher role to both allow quiz:attempt, but also remove quiz:preview. For various reasons this is not easy to fix in the quiz yet. I need to do some other changes first to clean up the code flow, then it will be fixable.
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Re: Please help a novice! Used override to allow teachers to take quizzes

by Cheryl Young -
Hi Tim,

By "remove quiz: preview," I assume you meant that I should set "mod/quiz:preview" to "prevent."

That's what I did, and the teacher can now take a quiz.

Many thanks!!!

Cheryl
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