Joseph Rézeau

Sam,
Have you read this thread?
Joseph

Hi Tim,

For amateur programmers like myself, reverting to the command line after getting used to the comfort of GUIs (Windows, etc.) can be daunting and the source of much frustration.

In order to get some of my hacks to be used for patching my university's Moodle installation, I've recently had to use those gnuwin32 tools you mention in your post. Took me half a day to figure out my way through the PATH, directory structure, numerous parameters of the command line, etc. But I finally managed. It's a pity that the only choice for producing DIFFs and PATCHes seems to be betwen the "prehistoric" command line on the one hand and sophisticated tools with a steep learning curve (Eclipse) on the other.

That's life.

Joseph

Harry > ... I'll keep sniping away at our IT department until they give in...

That's the spirit!

Joseph

Hi Nathan,

Part1

I'm running Moodle 1.6.1 (2006050510) on both my test server and my school's server. Here's the first line <?php // $Id: format.php,v 1.2 2006/03/01 07:36:09 gustav_delius Exp $

I don't know if that older file is the reason for your current problem. I would certainly advise you to upgrade your Moodle to the latest stable distribution (currently 1.6.3).

Part2

Using moodle XML allows for multiple CLOZE questions to be uploaded at the same time, am I right? I believe that's what I did when I exported 20 some CLOZE questions out of one course and then uploaded them into another one. I looked at the moodle xml code and it looked like I could use the existing code and replace the text of the questions (as they are all similarly structured)

Of course, the Moodle XML format allows you to export/import any number of Cloze type questions residing within one category of your course question bank. I would certainly not recommend modifying the code of an XML file thus generated to add your new questions, as all sorts of errors can happen, especially the dreaded "invisible line-end mark". However, if you are familiar with XML, you can build an XML schema (*.XSD) and use an XML editor to edit your questions. I use Oxygen.

Part3 New Question

Do you have time to point me in the right direction for this question. How do I get the students CLOZE answers to show up red for wrong. It used to do it on my older version (1.5.?). I searched for "green red" in the moodle.org's search bar and looked at all the articles there that looked relevant (about an hour) and I couldn't find anything that looked like it was what I needed.

Try this discussion thread. Which theme are you using? This is very important, as the formatting of the correct/incorrect response is dependant on your theme. Also, a screen shot showing what you are getting at the moment and what you would like to get would help a lot.

Hope that helps,

Joseph

Hi Debra,
I do not understand what you want exactly. It looks to me that this is already implemented in current 1.6+ version. If you click on any assignement, you can view a table showing clearly which assignments have been submitted and which have been graded, as shown on attached screen dump. If you have a large number of students, and would like to display all of them in that table, simple set the Submissions shown per page number to 9999.
You can also click on the Grade column to sort it by Graded/Not Graded. etc.
What more would you like to see?
Joseph