Dr S Bhatia

hi Prashant

I am quite sure there are only two reasons for this

1. you may not have turned 'adaptive mode' to 'yes'.......without this, negative marking doesn't work(unlike indian exams where we think a wrong answer must be a guess and deduct marks for guessing, westerners give importance to 'learning' and this is evident here that they wanna ensure student attempts repeatedly till he knows whats right BUT gets penalised at the same time....)
2. turn grading method to last attempt.
regards

Hi

I am creating a test in which 10 factors of personality are being assessed like warmth, team playing capability, anger, etc etc

i have 10 questions for each trait making a total of 100
This test , when we conduct manually we randomise the quwestions and then calculate the score of each 10 questions for a particular trait separately

e.g. warmth- 3/10
       anger- 6/10
       team role- 5/10

and then we give feedback for each type of trait

e.g. warmth- 3/10---you are not a very warm person
       anger-    6/10----you get angry easily
       team role- 5/10----you are an average team player

The only idea i Have is that i'll have to make 10 quizzes , one for each part, and then create 11th quiz where the candidates will manually feed their own scores for each of the ten parts they have taken and feedback will be shown to them.

does anyone have a better idea how to do it in a way that it can be a single composite quiz and manual report creation can be avoided.

Hi

I need to create a quiz (Kind of aptitude test) at the end of which the system should give the candidate a feedback dependant on the score

example

If your score is 5/20- feedback should say=> very low score blah blah
                      6-10/20-  feedback should say=> average  score blah blah
                      11-15/20- feedback should say=> good score blah blah
                      16-20/20-  feedback should say=> very high score blah blah

can this be done?

as a matter of fact my files are of practically no siz coz they are still sample files with a line or two of text each

here is the transcript when i ran the cron manually thru the browser

Server Time: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:32:43 -0500


Starting activity modules
Processing module function assignment_cron ...done.
Processing module function chat_cron ...done.
Processing module function forum_cron ...<div class="notifysuccess" align="center">Success</div><br />
Processing post 2.... mailed to 1 users.
done.
Processing module function journal_cron ...done.
Processing module function workshop_cron ...done.
Finished activity modules
Starting blocks
Finished blocks
Updating languages cache
Running backups if required...
    Checking backup status...OK
    Getting admin info
    Deleting old data
    Checking courses
        Skipping deleted courses
            0 courses
        TS Mindbend's Online psychology 
            Next execution: Sunday, 3 September 2006, 01:15 AM
        1.Conventional Psychotherapy
            Next execution: Sunday, 3 September 2006, 01:15 AM
        2. e-Therapy
            Next execution: Sunday, 3 September 2006, 01:15 AM
        3.Common Problems & Solutions
            Next execution: Sunday, 3 September 2006, 01:15 AM
        4. TSM Career Guidance Package
            Next execution: Sunday, 3 September 2006, 01:15 AM
        5. Career Aptitude test
            Next execution: Sunday, 3 September 2006, 01:15 AM
        6. TSM Career Inclination Test
            Next execution: Sunday, 3 September 2006, 01:15 AM
        TSM-IQ test (English Language Based)
            Next execution: Sunday, 3 September 2006, 01:15 AM
Backup tasks finished.
Cron script completed correctly
Execution took 1.6041 seconds

Hi
I have moodle1.6
My cron script runs ok
i have scheduled the backups for every night in default directory.

Now the problem is whenever it runs backup, a simple error message. here is the transcript

Name:

backup-tsm_home-20060902-0750.zip

Creating temporary structures Deleting old data Creating XML file Writing header Writing general info Writing course data Course info Metacourse Blocks Sections Writing users info Writing messages info Writing scales info Writing groups info Writing events info Writing gradebook info Writing modules info Forums Copying user files An error occurred while copying user files The backup did not complete successfully

Consequently i am neither able to backup nor able to import.
this happens when it begins to copy files.
I have checked all things that i knew to check.
is there any CRUCIAL step i am missing?
i tried using default directory by leaving a blank field in the backup setup and then i also tried by mentioning a separate directory path and the directory was chmod 777
Can someone help?

Thanx