Joseph Rézeau

Hi Tim,

I've just had a look at MDL-3282. This isssue is far from being clear-cut, for at least 2 reasons.

#1 Moodle sites with more than one language being used in its courses

This is the case of the institution (University) where I teach. Most of the courses are set as using French language, and a few courses (including mine) use English. If a site-wide numerical formatting (for both thousands and decimal separators) were to be set by admin, then it would of course be set to French, but would not suit my English courses.

#2 Disagreement in the use of standards

Even within a language community there is disagreement as to which standards to apply for numbers.

Solution? In my opinion, it is high time for the formatting of numbers to follow a unique scientific standard, which would probably be as follows:

thousands separator: a blank space (no commas, etc.)

decimal separator: a full stop (no commas, etc.)

as in : 12 598.25 for twelve thousand five hundred ninety eight point twenty five.

Joseph

PS.- The final decision is beyond of the scope of Moodle, and resides in the goodwill of users to use international standards.

References:

• Bureau International des Poids et Mesures : La 22e Conférence générale des poids et mesures.
• http://wapedia.mobi/en/Decimal_separator
• Decimals Score a Point on International Standards
  

I do not understand what you want to do. You want students to view/download a file they have submitted as an assignment? But why would they need to do that, since they obviously have on their machine the file they submitted.
Joseph

Hi Jeff,
You posted your question to the wrong forum. Please re-post to the Quiz module forum, where you have just posted your other questions related to Quiz and Questions.
Joseph

After consultation with Mike Churchward, we are aware of this problem but cannot do anything about it. The "public questionnaire" feature is very complicated as it exists, and any tampering with it might have serious consequences, especially for security issues. The advice we can give is that questionnaires which are based on a "public" one should not be backed-up and restored.
ATB
Joseph

Pour compléter cette info sur les tags, voir ce fil de discussion. Moralité, il faudra encore être patient.