Howard Miller

Are you sure?

You may have created/changed the directory to this, but not the subdirectories, it is worth a check.

Also you may wish to consider chown'ing the data directory (and its subdirs) to be the user:group that the web server runs as. You can then make the permissions a bit more restrictive. Exactly what that user is depends on your system and (in particular) httpd.conf contents.

In my humble opinion the best bet is to change the data directory to have the same ownership as the user under which Apache runs. I can't remember what it is as I don't have a Mac handy, but RedHat uses apache:apache SuSe nobody:nogroup, so it'll be something like that. You can then set the permission to be only accessible by that user 755 or 711 perhaps.

Yes but for detractors like me - would that include no grading at all?

We do a lot of Masters level courses where grading causes horror in the ranks of tutors

Otherwise, sounds good. Percentage grades although entirely appropriate in many fields, may well be far too "harsh" in others.

You'll have this in the CVS by the end of the week then??

Bit of a new feature suggestion...

This goes along with the suggestion some time ago that Quizes should have the option to supress their grading.

Same thing applies to Assignments, I think.

The easiest way to do it is to suppress grading messages if the maximum grade is set to zero. The information shown to the student can be removed by a simple if statement (round about line 75) in the view.php code for the module. This is a bit rough though - it really needs a bit more work than that!

Is this something that we would want to see in the code?

I am beginning to think that a tick-box in the course settings to kill grading stone dead might be a better idea going forward.

yes, agreed.

Some simple routing might be a thought too. That is you don't get the "Other" box unless you answer other, and "skip to the end" sort of constructs.

Likely getting ahead of myself