Glenys Hanson

Hi Manuel,

If your pedagogical objective is getting your students to practice putting frequency adverbs in the right place, then probably JCloze is not the right application.

I'd use JMix: this presents the words of a sentence in disorder and students have to put them in the right order.

I have a set of Frequency adverbs exercises which might give you inspiration - no JMix, but I'll add one when I update the set. I'll also add a JQuiz short answer where they actually have to write the sentences: the "questions" would be the words in disorder.

HTH,

Glenys

Hi Gordon and Stan,

Great that it's working so well!. Though there are some little things. I thought my exercises weren't working because when I first looked at JMatch Sort Magic "e" TaskChain  (Firefox 25.0 on Mac) it showed as an "ordinary" JMatch. It was only when I saw Stan's message that it was working that I went back to check... and it worked for me too. I don't know why there was the initial problem.

When the exercise is completed an error message shows: "Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$score in /Users/gbateson/Sites/Moodle/24/mod/taskchain/renderer.php on line 1340"

When I uploaded JMatch Sort with players from my Mac I got this error message in the Hot Pot version (not in the TaskChain version) "Sorry, the HotPot module could not detect the type of the source file: /JMatch-Sort with players/.DS_Store" and the exercise wasn't visible. I've had trouble with that pesky ".DS Store" file before! Mac users beware and remove it.

I uploaded it again as JMatch Sort with players 2 from Windows and got a different error message: "Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$hotpot_bodystyles in /Users/gbateson/Sites/Moodle/24/mod/hotpot/attempt/renderer.php on line 652" but the exercise showed normally.

Having retired, I'm not using Moodle any more but I'm happy to help with testing this wonderful addition to the Hot Potatoes set of possible exercises. Thanks so much to Agnès Simonet for doing the coding and to Stan too for writing the Instructions and putting the modified source files on his site where they're easily available: http://hotpot.ewbooks.info/jmatch_sort_categorisation.And of course, thanks to you, Gordon, for getting it working on Moodle.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi there,

Just to emphasise what Gordon has already written: I had lots of problems with scores not being recorded correctly until I got it through to the students that they had to find all the correct answers to finish an exercise. This is logical for what are intended to be learning exercises, not tests.

I also found it helped in JQuiz for students to get a "smiley" when clicking on the final choice (by default the question mark remains). Students don't get a score, but they are sure that they've found the correct answer. If they look over the finished exercise and note the correct answers they should see a pattern - if the exerecise has been designed for that.

I never managed to convince Martin Holmes of my logic, but he showed me how to do it anyway:

In jquiz6.js_

Find:

//Show the feedback

ShowMessage(Feedback);

//New for 6.2.2.1: If you want to mark an answer as correct even when it's the final choice, uncomment this line.

// if (I[QNum][3][ANum][2] >= 1){Btn.innerHTML = CorrectIndicator;}else{Btn.innerHTML = IncorrectIndicator;}

return;

}

Change to:

//Show the feedback

ShowMessage(Feedback);

//New for 6.2.2.1: If you want to mark an answer as correct even when it's the final choice, uncomment this line.

if (I[QNum][3][ANum][2] >= 1){Btn.innerHTML = CorrectIndicator;}else{Btn.innerHTML = IncorrectIndicator;}

return;

}

HTH,

Glenys

Hi there,

I've been running Moodle on a Xampp server with no problems for years on both Mac and Windows but in the last few weeks MySql has refused to start. Same on Mamp and Wamp.

I just downloaded Moodle4Mac but the same thing happens: XamppErrorDomain error 1

I've turned off Skype, set the permissions to Read & Write and to the enclosed folders for myself, system, admin and everyone.

I've searched on the internet and gather it's a frequent problem but I don't really understand the suggestions: there are several different propositions of code to put in the terminal. I'm afraid of making the problem worse but putting in the wrong code.

I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.4 and Windows 7.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi there,

The Hot Potatoes Module developer, Gordon Bateson, created a patch which solves this problem, see in the Tracker: MDL-40713.

Thanks so much Gordon!

Cheers,

Glenys