Joseph Rézeau

Question #2. That is a site-wide setting and you'll have to ask your Moodle site admin to enable it for you.

Administration ► Modules ► Filters ► Manage filters

Common settings
Filter match once per page
Default: No
Automatic linking filters will only generate a single link for the first matching text instance found on the complete page. All others are ignored.
Filter match once per text
Default: No
Automatic linking filters will only generate a single link for the first matching text instance found in each item of text (e.g., resource, block) on the page. All others are ignored. This setting is ignored if the one per page setting is yes.

Even in the cases of short answer or essay questions, if a student does not want to answer a question there is no point forcing them.

On the other hand, if the OP's question meant "is it possible to warn a student that they have not answered all the questions in a quiz upon submitting it?" then I agree that such a warning should be issued, simply to warn the student that they may have overlooked one or more questions in the quiz and give them a chance to answer them before finally submit. This question has been asked a few times already in this forum and I believe Tim has worked out a solution (for forthcoming Moodle 2.0 version).

ATB

Joseph

By "mandatory questions" I suppose you mean you want to force students to answer all the questions in a quiz. In this forum I have already expressed the opinion that it does not make sense from a pedagogic point of view to force students to answer a question. Especially in the case of multiple choice questions, if you ask them to choose between one correct answer and 2 or 3 incorrect ones, and the student has no idea what the correct answer is, then your "mandatory" feature would actually force the student to make a random choice, which is already too prone to happen.

I much prefer to have a student not answer a question when he does not know the answer than to force them to answer "anything" at random.

Joseph

version Moodle 2.0 dev (Build: 20100203)

The new Course navigation block which appears in the left column looks fine to me. But I have some remarks.

1. Since this new feature is much better than the former Show only topic n/Show all topics feature in previous versions, I suggest that the former feature be completely removed from 2.0. As has been pointed many times, that Show only topic feature only leads to confusion.
2. There is a bug, as shown on attached screenshot: the last Topic is not displayed in the navigation menu (Topic 4 on my example).
3. It seems strange that icons should be displayed to the right of the activity/resource name in the navigation menu instead of to the left as in the Topic view. Actually, it might save some vertical real estate if those icons were simply not displayed at all in the Navigation menu. See my screen capture suggestion.
   
4. In the Course navigation block, why is Topic 0 treated differently from the other topics? In my example, it looks as if Topic 0 is always expanded, plus it includes elements which are not in Topic 0 ("Participants") Why? Would it not be more coherent to have Topic 0 behave like the other topics, i.e. be expandable too?
5. resources and activities which do not have subs, and therefore are not expandable should not have any "expandable" icon at all; on my example, resource "my very first blabla" is a simple page, so should not be expandable.
6. It is possible in Add Blocks, to add a Navigation block. So that it is possible to have 2 navigation blocks... and, once added, that block is not deletable. Looks like a bug.
   

Joseph