Dr S Bhatia

you guys are talking pretty computerese which is greek to me

just one thought

in the settings for the course, have you set it to

allow guests without the key or allow guests with the key?

Hey John

Your suggestion is same as my second post from top. This will not work.
read my post above yours which says
ok
did a bit of research
Yes, you guys are right and I was wrong(partially).
Quiz overrides if question says shuffle answers yes but quiz setting says NO
But when vice versa happens, that is question says no but quiz says yes, the quiz does not override.

Because of the above situation, each question which you wanna shuffle MUST have its shuffle set to yes, but has it no by default. Therefore quiz cannot override it.

Ok let me re-assess the situation.

you have pdf files of practice question papers.- right?

when you say:upload them onto moodle but have the ability for the student to answer each question and get moodle to self mark.

you mean the students will appear for the test using a computer and moodle?

But in first post you said: so that the student can answer the questions on the paper but moodle records their responses and self marks it.

So now i am confused.

Lemme tell you, putting them in moodle along with images is not a hassle at all because all of us type the text offline, insert images offline and just upload the tests. it's not a daunting task at all.We'll be glad to help if you want to do that.

HUNCH: or is it that you want that student should answer a question on paper and then when you scan the answer paper, moodle corrects the answer paper??

Please clarify Exactly

save the pdf as text....all typed material will be available to you.
all diagrams can be selected and saved as picture in adobe reader itself.
copy-paste them in your word file. upload as per ur choice format
Where is the problem?

(May be I am the one who is unable to understand. Could you please elaborate once again exactly. i may be a bit thick at times)

hello all

Now here is a little issue. Assuming we all use moodle, the present situation is:

1. As long as we have a person enrolled with us in a course, she can enter and use all the facilities and services. After a stipulated period she gets an enrollment expiry notification and on completion of term, her enrollment expires and she can no longer access those services.
2. We also have a feature, where the student herself can unenroll from a course.

The problem statement:

We create tests and administer them to students. Therefore a course will have lets say 5 paid tests and one complimentary free test. We make this test free coz we are still gathering data about this test so that we can do statistical analysis and make norms and standardize the test.
When you unenroll a student, apparently her grades and details of attempts etc also disappear.we end up losing data.

Suggested solution:

Is it possible that we simply have a default system, where all students who when unenroll or their enrollment period expires, their entire profile and grades etc automatically get transferred to a status called 'alumni' or 'ex-students' or something. This way, they will not have access to facilities anymore but will be able to access their data and performance  and so can we.
This will be somewhat to kind of activity locking automatically and status change to 'alumni'.

This way we will not lose out the important data. (some people may contend that we should back-up data before unenrollment but thats not the way the standardization process works.It's beyond us tochange the rules of the industry and we have to comply with it.)

lastly: Since i have not faced this problem yet(using moodle for <6months) i just foresee this issue and want to pre-empt it. So if am talking something wrong, don't hesitate to correct me please.