Marty Soupcoff

You could use the countif function to get the number of users who answered "1" or "2", etc.

For example, if the column of answers is in Column D and you want to count the number of users who answered "1", a formula of: =countif(D;D,1) would get you what you want.

Happy oodling!

If you are still using 1.9, create a new role that is exactly the same as the student role except for one permission change: mod/quiz:ignoretimelimits to allow. Users assigned to this role will then not be restricted to the time limit set for the quiz. You can read more about it in Moodle Doc.

Now you may think, "Well that doesn't give a time limit to the student so they can take forever." At our institution, we clearly state to users that have been assigned to this role,

• Although you will not see a timer in the quiz, you only have X amount of time to take the quiz as determined by your instructor. Please proctor yourself so as to end on time or you may take the quiz at our Center of Disabilities and a proctor will be assigned to you to make sure you end on time.

If you are using 2.x, follow Tim's instructions. He is a pretty smart guy

Happy oodling!

I'm using 1.9.11 but I believe everything I describe is in the same general areas.

There are a couple things you will want to check if you are trying to embed videos using the Embed code. 

1. Check the role permissions to see if that role has ALLOW set for the permission TRUST SUBMITTED CONTENT. Further discussion on topic.
2. In Site Admin > Security > Site Policies, check to see what you have for the Allow EMBED and OBJECT tags and Enabled Trusted Content settings. Read the descriptions and switch to enabled if you are sure you want to do so. Further discussion on topic.

That should get you all set if you are trying to use the embed codes. The way I read the settings (someone correct me if I am wrong) is that forums work differently than other places that you will see the HTML editor. For example, a label can be created by teacher or higher role by default. So in essence, they have control of the course so they are to be trusted. The forums though have other people posting with lower permissions who may post objectable videos. So with the above settings set to No, it is stripping out the code which may contain objectable content for your own safety.

A better option in my opinion is using the YouTube filter (Site Admin > Modules > Filters > Multimedia Plugins). If you have that the YouTube filter enabled, you don't have to change the above settings. To embed a video, you simply enter the URL of the video.

By default, the student role does not have permission to rate others on forums but you may want to check how your system has that permission set just to confirm.

The count of ratings gives a point for every post that receives a rating. So if a student were to make five posts and the teacher gave a rating to each one, they would receive 5 points. If the teacher determined that one of their posts wasn't of any quality, he could leave it blank and not rate. The student would then not gain that point.

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You can set the forum ratings to count of ratings and that will be part of what you want but that means the instructor still has to rate each post. To have the forum automatically award points based on a student posting means a student could post a one letter post and receive credit for an entire post. There has to be some sort of accountability to check for quality. There is a similar discussion in this forum thread where Bruce Long also makes a recommendation.

I don't think there is a feature for word count yet based on my searching of the Moodle.org forums but there is an open tracker. Note: There is an attached patch that looks like it displays word count but I don't think it is able to grade based off that word count.

It sounds like your instructor doesn't want to do any of the work that he gets paid to do. Does he want Moodle to teach the course too?

Happy oodling!