Joseph Rézeau

Hello Bente,

Unfortunately you don't say which Moodle version you are using. Anyway, the max-width rule works fine with the Formal White theme in Moodle 1.7 with FireFox, as seen on attached screen shot. Does not work in MSIE 7.

Joseph

Hi Ralf,

At the moment it is not possible to give students rights for authoring questions without giving them teacher rights. I was myself disappointed to see that a number of things I was hoping to be able to do with the new roles is in fact not possible because roles are not definable at activity level.

I expect you are aware of this dicussion: Plan for the conversion of the question bank into an activity module, which would solve our common problem, but probably not until 1.9 or 2.0!

Joseph

Hi Hamid,

Unfortunately the Download in Excel format export facility for quiz results exports the dates columns (Started on and Time taken) in text format, rather than in real date format. This results in an Excel sheet in which it is quite impossible to sort date columns.

One would think that the following would work: in the Quiz Overview window, click on the Started on link at the top of the column; this sorts the column date into chronological (or inverted chronological) order. Then click on the Download in Excel format. Alas! this has no effect on the exported Excel sheet.

One solution which does work is to not use the Download in Excel format at all, but, from within Excel, to use Data - Import External Data - New Web Query, and paste into the query the URL of your course's quiz Overview window. Then, when your quiz results are displayed inside that Excel External Data window, click on the Started on link at the top of the column to the column dates into chronological order. Finally, click on the litttle green arrow in front of the Quiz table, and import the date with your Started on column sorted as you wish.

One added bonus with this method is that you can save your Excel spreadsheet with its External Date query and refresh it later on, your results will be kept up-to-date. I personally do it all the time to have in an Excel spreadsheet an up-to-date log of my students' visits to my courses. By typing "Excel external data web" in Google you'll find links to Web pages explaining how this works in detail.

Hope that helps,

Joseph

PS.- Please, Moodle developers, could we have a more 'sensible' time/date format in Excel export sheets? Thanks.