Quiz

I've attached my embarrassingly lame "solution" to the manual grading management problem in Moodle 1.8.3+.


There are lots of problems with this implementation, including:

1. bad, messy code duplication with other quiz reports (there is no other option, see #2 below)
   
2. horrible DB load to do the queries to produce this report (I don't remember now why this is the case.)
3. completely different presentation than other quiz reports (there is no other good option, see #2, below)
   

But I'm using it in production anyway, because life was previously miserable for our teachers given that any student may be submitting any quiz at any time. (It's been a couple of months, but I still get emails regularly with thank-you notes.)

And after some back-and-forth on the issue, I'm attaching the block here despite the fact that it's a grotesque kludge because

1. it exemplifies a particular interface need that we (and many others, I suspect) require from the 2.0 quiz module rewrite
2. it reveals a design limitation of the quiz module reports (in 1.8, at least, I guess I haven't checked 1.9), in that they have no concept of a course-wide report, which is exactly what is missing (and this leads to #1, in the first list above)
   
3. maybe somebody else could use this, even though it's a grotesque kludge. Did I mention that our teachers keep expressing thanks for it?

So if you want, you can install this block on your site. Note that it must be added to a course to be effective for that course. (I sent out an email explaining to our teachers how they could add it to their own courses.)

Also, see http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13495 for a patch that will add an indicator of which particular attempts have been manually graded and which ones still need attention.

Together, these changes have drastically improved the lives of our teachers.

Cheers,
Matt