Itamar Tzadok

Just one thing (which I've always known ). The only way to really get the front end user's perspective is to be one yourself. So don't just go to meetings with your front end users; start a Moodle course site (just like this one) and meet them there and you will see what it really means to Moodle.

Best wishes on your new job.

Are the assignments' grades all or nothing? Otherwise the student would get up to 75 (only) if s/he completed the paper and one of the other assignments. Moreover, the student may get less than 75 even if s/he completed all the assignment. And so the question becomes whether incomplete should designate overall-grade<75 or number-of-submitted-assignments<3.

Same as above but you can add more css so as to hide from the printer all questions but the essay questions. If you want to allow users to print out their exam you can remove the css from that description question after you finished printing your copies.

Hope this helps.

If the exam is open book, no time limit and open in standard ("non-secure") window, then it can also be multiple attempts (and each attempt builds on the previous one). With the latter setting users can make a first attempt and immediately submit so as to get the review page in which they can click 'Show all questions on one page' to display all questions on one page and print. To avoid the header and footer of even that one all-question page you can add to the first page of the exam a description question in which you toggle to html source () and add the following css:

<style type="text/css">@media print{div#header,div.navbar,div.headermenu,div#footer{display:none;}}</style>

This css should remove the header and footer from the printed page.

Hope this helps.

You can always group the students randomly in two or three groups and make a different quiz for each group. With the 'Auto-create groups' this should be very easy and you can recreate the groups for subsequent assignments so that no "friendships" could be formed. Then you create three corresponding quizzes with different order of clusters and assign a quiz to each group (by grouping).