Joseph Rézeau

@Jean-Michel,

There is no one better word sequence as regards grading. It really depends on the type of items being ordered  Let me take 2 examples only.

Example 1. Order those US presidents in chronological order of presidency: , Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George Washington, George H. W. Bush, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy.

correct order: George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama.

student answer: Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Barack Obama.

Correctly placed items (regardless of "neighbouring items" : 2 -> score: 2/6

Example 2. Re-order this jumbled sentence: cooks many too the broth spoil

Correct answer: too many cooks spoil the broth

student answer 1: too many broth spoil the cooks

number of correct sequences of words (italicized above): 2  + initial word correctly placed: total score = 3/6

student answer 2: too many cooks broth the spoil

number of correct sequences of words (italicized above): 2  + initial word correctly placed: total score = 3/6

student answer 3: too many cooks spoil broth the

number of correct sequences of words (italicized above): 4  + initial word correctly placed: total score = 5/6

In example 1 we give points to items in their correct "place". In example 2 we are concerned with context, sequence of words, so we give points to correct sequences of 2 words, regardless of their correct "place" in the sentence. Obviously this consideration makes the programming of an acceptable scoring system quite difficult.

Joseph

@William, could you please give us a couple of concrete examples of your "steps"?

Joseph

I'll have a look at that timer.js script. It seems to be very old.

Joseph

I do not use Scorm so cannot answer. I suggest you post the question directly in the SCORM forum.

Joseph

You are right, time spent in successive attempts at a lesson is not cumulative. It starts at zero with each new attempt.

The best solution to this problem would be the development of a new "stop-watch/chronometer" feature, as described in this other discussion: .Measuring "Time spent" in Lesson

EDIT.- Just found out a very simple hack to make time spent in successive attempts at a lesson cumulative. This is for current version 2.7 of Moodle, but should work in previous versions too.

In file yourmoodle/mod/lesson/view.php, around line 105, locate this comment: "// check for the timespent condition". A few lines below, replace line:

$duration = $attempttime->lessontime - $attempttime->starttime;

with:

$duration += $attempttime->lessontime - $attempttime->starttime;

That's it! Of course, usual warning applies that it may be risky to hack a moodle core file and cause problems when updating your moodle site. So use at own rixk.