Itamar Tzadok

A few quick suggestions.

It seems that one 'Excused exercises' grade item should be sufficient for the exercises part. Simply record in it the number of excused exercises, 1-11, and if you want to keep track of which exercises you can record their numbers in the feedback of the item. Of course the extreme case of 11 excuses will mess up the formula (div by 0) but there shouldn't be too many of those.

It also seems that you can omit the hidden Exercises.overall grade item and simply do the calculation in the category total of the Exercises category. The formula would be something like: sum(Ex1,Ex2,...,Ex11)/(11-Exercises.Excused)

I don't know why it gives the invalid formula error. Could you post a screenshot?

You're welcome. It is exactly my point that one should not have to conform to anything and that the sometimes-necessary restructuring is only made easier by the availability of platforms like Moodle especially for asynchronous learning which is essential with students who have to do army reserve duty.

The HTML editor is an object over a textarea element. You can get the editors name for a certain page (e.g. editor_78e711027g8fd50ed722340b7c9a63b3) from the page source of that page. But if you only need to get the content immediately after the page is loaded you can get it from the underlying textarea which you can access by document.getElement and you can find the element id in the page source. Hope this helps.

I've tried something like this with css (and javascript for setting the iframe size dynamically as a function of displayed page size). Works but ugly. Since you want to preserve the normal look the css should be external to the page and applied by the parent frame. But then if you have internal navigation (as in a multi-page quiz) you have to hide it and provide proper navigation of the internal pages from the parent frame. Shouldn't be too messy though if it is flat content.

Deleting the quiz does not necessarily remove the corresponding grade item especially if the relevant gradebook category is locked. If the grade item is still there you should be able to delete it and that should fix the calc. If the relevant category or any parent category is locked, you should unlock (and relock) so that the gradebook recalcs. Hope this helps.