Posts made by Dr S Bhatia

Moodle in English -> Quiz and question banks -> Calculated Question Grading Error -> Re: Calculated Question Grading Error

by Dr S Bhatia -
it's a bug

it's a bug

it's a bug
big grin

Ok, I have discovered what is happening.

Your formula is 6.375/{a}
your {a} are various values

Since you had mentioned: correct answer should have '2' decimal figures, the dataset has calculated the answers only upto 2 decimal figures...thus 1.59 is one of the answers.

The bug is: when you fill in the answer in the question, it is not limiting itself to 2 decimals.
so try filling the follwing answers:
1.59---> incorrect
1.593---> incorrect
1.5937---> incorrect
1.59375---> Correct

Surprise!! surprise!!

Want more surprise?
Here you go===> this behaviour does not change even if you change the setting of 2 decimals to 3 significant figures.

Therefore, the bug is=> the decimal/significant figure  option is affecting only the dataset for wildcard replacement but fails to be applied when answers filled in are matched with possible answers.

File a bug report Debra.
And sorry for being so presumptuous to call it a numerical question.
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Moodle in English -> Wiki -> Initiating Wiki -> Re: Initiating Wiki: Wiiki editor

by Dr S Bhatia -
The fault, Dear Nabil, lies not in your moodle but in the interpretation of options itself.

The options are:

HTML Mode

You have the following possibilities:

No HTML
Escapes all HTML-Tags. Formatting is done through the WikiWords. Filters work in this Mode.
Safe HTML
Some Tags are allowed and are displayed. There are no filters active which need tags in this mode !
HTML only
No WikiWords, just HTML. This option allows the use of the HTML-Editor.
If you want an editor which looks like MS Word, where you can highlight, make bold, italics etc, use the last option HTML Only. Incidentally, this is also the easiest one and is practically a wysiwyg editor.

Somehow, this is one rare placein Moolde where the options have not been described properly.

Ciao
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Moodle in English -> Lounge -> Open-Of-Course is a new moodle based, multilingual portal for free online courses and tutorials. -> Re: Open-Of-Course is a new moodle based, multilingual portal for free online courses and tutorials.

by Dr S Bhatia -
viewed it.

ideology- excellent, worth emulating

execution- average

Moodle component- nothing except that it's made in moodle which is open, of course.

Future- lots of hard work required

Let's wish'em good luck
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Moodle in English -> Quiz and question banks -> Lower grade for late quiz submission -> Re: Lower grade for late quiz submission

by Dr S Bhatia -
Dear James

There is no direct way but a simple trick does exist.

lets say you have a quiz called 'october quiz' and it has 65 number of questions of mixed type. this quiz exists in "Course A'. You intend the last date for normal submission to be 31 october 2006

In the quiz settings, set 31 october 2006, 23:59 hrs as close the 'quiz date'.
In the quiz, you have 65 questions and their grade is set to, let's say, 100.

Now create another quiz called 'late submission october quiz'
Let it have the same 65 questions as 'october quiz'.( instead of creating the whole quiz again, just import this october quiz into course B and from there again import it back to course A and name it 'late submission october quiz')

Now this quiz should open at 00:01 hrs on 01 Nov 2006 (By then the 'october quiz' has closed and cannot be taken anymore)
Set the grade of this quiz to your desired penalised grade for e.g. 80
So a student who gets 60/65 marks in october quiz. if he submits it timely, he gets a grade of 92.3% but if he gets the same marks in 'late submission october quiz' he gets only 73.8%.
 Purpose achieved.
Quad Erat Demonstrandum.

p.s. one more way. login into your moodle at midnight of 31 october and edit the quiz. change the grade from 100 to 80 and VOILA. Only thing is you gotta be bang on time and it won't be FAIR to those students who are in a different time zone smile
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