Joseph Rézeau

Hi Alan and Mauno,

[button] 1. My first idea was that this has something to with line breaks but it is for adding non-breaking spaces (   ) like you said Alan. This is a totally useless button because you can as well type several spaces after each other in tinymce and tinymce changes them automatically to non-breaking spaces.

I have to disagree. The non-breaking space is absolutely indispensable for French-speaking users, as it is needed before so-called double punctuation marks (: ; ! ?). It is true that if you type more than one space in tinymce they are automatically changed to non-breaking spaces, but we do not want 2 non-breaking spaces before double punctuation marks in French, we want one, and that button is therefore indispensable to us. This is one of the most needed improvements in tinymce over current moodle HMTL editor that we need for French (and maybe other languages as well).

buttons 2 : might be useful in some circumstances

button 3 : very interesting; quite useful as you say to mess things up

button 4 : would be more useful if it also displayed the end of paragraph ¶ sign (as in Word processors)

button 5 : I agree that it duplicates the Find button to its left. There is a bug, replacement does not respect actual font but default font.

Hi James,

For all moodle activities, the best and easiest way to send a reminder message to all students who haven't yet completed an activity is as follows (for moodle 1.9).

Admin block -> Reports -> Participation report -> Activity module : Choose : select the quiz you want to get reports on -> Show only : Student -> Show Actions: all actions -> Go

In the results table, you can see the number of times that students have taken part in the activity. For the Quiz activity, the difference between the various actions mentioned in the Quiz Views: view, view all, report and Quiz Posts: attempt, editquestions, review, submit lists is pretty meaningless. Anyway, all it means it that those students who are marked No in the All actions column have not submitted their quiz. Click the Select all 'no' button at the bottom of the list, select in the drop-down list With selected users : Add/send message. (you don't need to click the OK button)

In the next screen, you will see the HTML editor to type your "reminder message" and you will see the list of students to which that message will be sent.

Et voila!

Joseph

Hi James,
This problem has already been discussed in this discussion. As far as I can experiment on my 1.9.5 moodle installation, responses to questions which have been answered are indeed saved and count in the quiz scoring even if the student does not finish/submit before the time limit expires.
Joseph

Actually on our university moodle site, the permission for teachers to "log in as students" has beeen disabled. I regret this decision on practical grounds but approve it on ethical grounds.
Joseph

Hi Sam,

Well, I didn't intend to open that can of worms. But, in this world of ours where Mac tends to be given the role of the "good guy" and Windows the "bad guy" (cf. the clever and funny "Hi, I'm a PC / Hi, I'm a Mac" Mac ads), it is a relief to hear someone confess that "The Mac keyboard layout is horrendously broken in all regards." Each time I have to sit at a Mac I am missing something (starting with the left mouse button).

Anyway, back to square one, I do agree with Olli that Moodle (and indeed any piece of software) should protect its users from potential hazard. However, see Mauno's detailed information, showing that total protection (against wrong use of the keyboard) is an illusion. No amount of software "protection mechanisms" will compensate for the end-user's errors, habits, idiosyncrasies, in short from being a human, not a machine.

Joseph (not a Mac owner)