Joseph Rézeau

Tish " I have a lot of cloze questions in my courses, and I use a smaller text size for the questions for 2 reasons.
1 - so as the person creating & editing the questions, I can easily identify the question amongst the text. (see pic below & attached)
2 - because the drop-down menu box appeared (in 2.5) quite tall compared with the rest of the text, I found that by reducing the font size, it also reduced the size of the drop-down menu box and fitted in much more nicely with the rest of the text."

Reason #1 can be quite useful when editing quesitons.

However, Reason #2 did work in Moodle 2.5 and 2.6, using Standard Theme. But it no longer works in Moodle 2.7 using "standard" Clean theme (Bootstrap based). Maybe it's no longer necessary?

Joseph

That "gap" has nothing to do with Moodle or its HTML editor. It is just the normal vertical separator between 2 consecutive paragraphs.

What you call a "line" is in fact a paragraph (consisting of one line).

If you are creating a "series" of "lines", then you might consider formatting them as lists instead of paragraphs.

1.- Series of one-line paragraphs:

one

two

three

...

2.- Series of lines separated by a linebreak:

one
two
three

3.- Ordered list:

1. one
2. two
3. three

4.- Unordered (bulleted) list:

• one
• two
• three

Joseph

Hi Gordon,

Using Moodle 2.7.2+ (Build: 20141002) and HotPot 2014070225. If Activity completion is enabled for site and course, the HotPot Activity completion parameters feature 2 possible conditions:

Require view: Student must view this activity to complete it
Require grade: Student must receive a grade to complete this activity

Unfortunately, the Require view condition does not work. Actually, I am of opinion that this condition is useless (and misleading) on an activity which requires questions to be answered/graded (as the HotPot activity).

I suggest you remove the display of this useless condition from the HotPot settings. In file mod/hotpot/lib.php, line 58, change 'FEATURE_COMPLETION_TRACKS_VIEWS' => true, to false.

Joseph

Hello Jose,

Unfortunately, in your blog article, you do not define the term "B-learning".

Joseph

Gaël : "la condition d'achèvement la plus basique : "Les étudiants doivent afficher cette activité pour la terminer"

A mon avis, cette condition d'achèvement n'a aucun sens lorsqu'il s'agit d'une activité destinée à recevoir une note (Quiz, Lesson, Hotpot) ou même destinée à recevoir des réponses non notées (Feedback, Questionnaire, ...).

Par contre, si on ajoute la condition "Les étudiants doivent recevoir une note pour terminer cette activité", alors là, elle est marquée comme achevée dès que l'élève répond !"

Normal ! Une activité HotPot ne peut être considérée comme achevée que si les élèves ont répondu aux questions et donc obtenu une note.

Malheureusement (pour les développeurs de plugins), la condition "de base" est affichée automatiquement dans les paramètres de l'activité. Il leur faut donc ruser pour la supprimer. C'est ce que j'ai fait pour le plugin Questionnaire dont je m'occupe. Je vais en parler à l'auteur du plugin HotPot, Gordon Bateson.

Joseph