Joseph Rézeau

Dear Gordon,
It's not easy for me to conduct tests since I do not own a Mac and have to rely on the help of a colleague of mine. He has confirmed that the HP cloze test works OK outside of Moodle on his Mac + Safari browser but crashes the machine when used inside Moodle. Don't know whether Safari has a JS console, but that would not help since apparently complete crash results.
Joseph

Moodle 1.6.3, Hot Potatoes module version.php,v 1.34.2.5 2006/09/13 08:26:16

JCloze exercise, using in Moodle the HTML file.

• Windows + MSIE or FireFox -> OK
• Macintosh + FireFox -> OK
• Macintosh + Safari -> computer crashes when Check button is clicked...

Can anyone confirm this bug?

Joseph

Sure, the config.php file does say it clearly:
<?php /// Moodle Configuration File
...
// MAKE SURE WHEN YOU EDIT THIS FILE THAT THERE ARE NO SPACES, BLANK LINES,
// RETURNS, OR ANYTHING ELSE AFTER THE TWO CHARACTERS ON THE NEXT LINE.
?>
However, I am truly amazed that, since this blank spaces or lines requirement can be the cause of so many problems the php "engine" has not been refactored long ago precisely to simply ignore those blank spaces or lines and stop pestering users with this requirement.
Joseph

Hi Peter,

This is an excellent idea. Although I do not have the necessary skills to propose helping you with delevoping this new module I can offer to help you test it out.

One "self-study" tool I would very much like to see in Moodle is a "vocabulary self-test" which would share some of the aspects mentioned in your post Key Features point 9:

"Create quizzes from ‘Smart Question Lists’. These lists will contain questions that have certain “transient characteristics”, as well as more fixed characteristics, e.g. questions not recently done, questions rarely answered correctly, questions recently added, questions not answered correctly more than 5 times".

What I would like to do is to replicate a vocab. learning system I used quite successfully for my own language learning studies (I did not invent it), with pen and paper.

Starting point: a list (or lists) of vocabulary to be studied/revised..., either English word - foreign translation or (English) word - (English) definition, etc.

Vocab. lists to be created by teacher, possibly using the Glossary module or database module.

Students can create their own test on the fly. January 1st, student A decides to learn/revise words in List "Animals". Student A has a choice of quiz presentation (i.e. question types): matching, multiple choice, short answer; total number of words to be tested (randomly picked out the list bank). Words correctly matched, answered, etc. upon first attempt are deemed to be "known" and are accordingly "tagged" as such.

January 10th, student A decides to re-test herself on the same "Animals" list. Now the words used for this test will again be taken from the list bank, but words tagged as "known" in the attempt dated Jan. 1st will not be selected.

And so on and so forth, until all words in the "Animals" List have been used in the on-the-fly self-test and tagged as "known".

When this happens, is student A wants to test herself on "Animals" again, she will be warned that she is supposed to "know" all the words in the list, and will be given the option to reset the whole list to "unknown".

I hope this makes sense and might be given some consideration,

Joseph

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