Joseph Rézeau

@Abdelkrim

... y compris Moodle 2.0 ? car c'est là que ça coince sur les hébergements mutualisés...

@Hilary : what do you mean? Can you post a screenshot please ?

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your detailed explanation. I understand that - in your situation - you are actually using Moodle more as an "on site" facility (providing computer access on the school premises) than as a "distance learning" system.

I quite agree that there should be within the Lesson activity a feature to provide teacher feedback for the Essay question type that students could easily look up without resorting to e-mail messaging.

Maybe some developer will come up with that feature some time in the future.

ATB

Joseph

Scott "And since many of them don't have access to email..." I'm surprised ; I thought that for students to be registered on a moodle site (and enroled in courses) a valid email address was needed...

Other than that I agree that it's a pity that no feedback can be provided to students on their Lesson essays other than by the email that is sent out by teachers upon correcting the essays.

The "philosophy" and ergonomics of the Quiz and the Lesson modules in Moodle are totally different and cannot be compared. Both have their advantages and drawbacks and it is not possible to have the advantages of both - unfortunately.

Joseph

Hi, Kimber and Laura.

The correct way to use matching questions in the Lesson is to put the longer texts into the left pairs and the shorter texts (as short as possible) into the right pairs. Is this what you are doing?

The text that goes in the right pairs is displayed as a drop-down list of single lines. Obviously if that text is longer than the space available on your screen, it will be truncated, regardless of which platform and version or which browser or version you are using. Well, maybe some combinations of platforms, versions and browsers will chop off more text than others (also depending on the size and definition of your screen)...

In Moodle 1.9.x, a Lesson matching question with longer texts in the left pairs and short (a few words) in the right pairs will display almost "correctly".

Unfortunately, in Moodle 2.0, the left pairs are displayed inside what looks like a ridiculously narrow column, with lots of unused empty space on the right (see attached screenshot). I have reported this in the following discussion:

Unusual display of matching question (lesson in Moodle 2.0.1)

and suggested a fix on Tuesday, 4 January 2011, 12:27 PM.

ATB

Joseph