Dr S Bhatia

By new year, 1.7 or may be even 1.8 would be there.

actually in few things, 1.6.x made a significant jump over the previous versions and thus it does make sense. meanwhile, i suggest you may install 1.6 on a PC as local moodle with easy PHP. this way you will be able to realize the difference, check out whether your requirements are being met or not and then convince your IT expert....you can then demonstrate what you need and thus convince him coz it really will take hardly one working day to do it all.

Yes i had tried it...

ok guys....

The catch was....that this was posted in fun forum and not in tech forum because:

I read that this was a real problem with a person in australia.

His comp used to reboot everytime he visited toilet.

Reason: he was living in a self-sufficient farmhouse. his visit to the toilet used to culminate in a flushing of the WC. This used to cause inflow of water into the WC from the overhead tank. This in turn caused a reduction in the water level of overhead tank, triggering the automatic borewell pump on to re-fill it to the brim. the turning on of this heavy duty pump used to cause a blip in the voltage and the computer used to reboot.

This was published in Reader's digest.

I thought let's share it with my moodle community. of cours, that guy didn't have moodle, as far as i know.

Hope you found the solution interesting.

i just don't know what you are asking. could you please tell IN DETAIL exactly what it is that your are required to do.

Where do you save as?

how do you save a quiz in a category? normally we save questions in a category and quiz in a course. so please expand on your requirement and also which version of moodle you use.

But when we prescribe oral doses, whats the harm in prescribing four tablets simultaneously. So if the student says, he wants to give-
Tab. Paracetamol
Tab. asthalin
Syp diphenhydramine
tab. alprazolam

what's the harm?.......... just kidding........i understand the problem.

i guess you'll have to tell them to fill all of them in a single field, separated by commas. (mention this in your instruction saying fill all four in the answer field separated only by a comma.)
Now suppose the question looks like this:-

Name four solid oral dosage forms.

{1:SHORTANSWER:~=tablet*, cap*, lozenge*, granule*}

Now the problem is what if the student changes the order. by permutation formula, you'll have to create dozens of correct answers. So this is not practically feasible, though theoritically it is.

The only other option is to convert this into multiple choice but then they become too obvious(you may not want that)
If you make it essay type, you'll have to grade manually.

You may make them matching types, too but again the options will be visible.

One thing stirikes me though.

let's make it like this:

Name four solid oral dosage forms. Order your answers in alphabetical order from A to Z

{1:SHORTANSWER:~=cap*}

{1:SHORTANSWER:~=granule*}

{1:SHORTANSWER:~=lozenge*}

{1:SHORTANSWER:~=powder* ~=tablet*}

problem is if the student decides to skip granule and fills lozenge in granule space, he gets it wrong. so again, this is not very feasible.

well....i was just thinking loud trying to explore all possibilities.

I wonder if that is possible exactly possible but here is some elucidation.
 max upload size is commanded by:

1. site settings
2. server settings.

Server settings upper limit cannot be overridden by site settings through moodle.
Coming to customised upload. Each forum or course setings have their own upload limit which has to be lower or equal to your site settings.

You may restrict the students this way by keeping it 2 MB.
Admin? well where do they want to upload?
 There are places where these settings are irrelevant but course file size will still control these.