Glenys Hanson

Hello Henny,

Nice to meet you in a different environment!

I've only got one student doing these exercises so far and she has had a number of different scores but never 100%. As she must be using IE she hasn't complained. It was a colleague using Firefox who noticed the problem. I think your problem must be different.

What do you mean by the database? I can see the results both in the Activites block: Hot Potatoes Quizzes and in the Administration block Grades.

I have other problems: with video. You'll be reading me here again soon.

It takes me so looong to state my problems clearly enough that these technical giants can help me.

Cheers,
Glenys

Hello,
A JQuiz short answer question is being used as a dictation exercise. When presented as a Moodle activity, after listening to the flash player, you cannot write in the text box without first clicking somewhere outside the text box in Firefox 2.0.0.1. It works normally in IE7. It also works normally outside of Moodle in both Firefox and IE7. I used HP 6.2.0.6.
An example on Moodle here: http://moodle.univ-fcomte.fr/mod/hotpot/view.php?id=13722
Password: begin

(The same exercise outside Moodle in a slightly different and older version: http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/dictations/rodspeople/rods04/04.htm )
The markup validates on both versions.

I’m on Windows XP (NT 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2)

Can you help?

Cheers,

Glenys

Bonjour Etienne,

Je suis émue de retrouver mon ancien stagiaire ici et impressionné de te trouver auteur d'un nouveau "bloc" .

Je suis intéressée par ton bloc parce que nous sommes trois enseignants pour tutorer un cours de 75+ étudiants en tout. Jusqu'à maintenant nous avons cloner le cours d'origine pour travailler chacun de notre côté avec un groupe de 25. Ca donne un supplément de travail chaque fois qu'on veut modifier le cours, il faut le faire dans trois cours différents.

Le problème, c'est je ne crois pas que on ne puisse ensuite faire de petits sous-groupes (5/6 étudiants) pour les tâches collaboratives. Ou est-ce que je me trompe?

Amicalement,
Glenys

Hello Gordon, Martin and everyone,

First, I have tried the new SCORM version on the local Moodle (1.6) on my hard disk and the exercises (JQuiz, JMix and JMatch) worked just the same as before. I must say I'm very fuzzy about SCORM. Should I start using this version though it seems to make no difference either way to the output?

Now as far as requests go for suggesting new improvements!

Would it be possible to have the HotPot exercises appear elsewhere than in the main, central column of topics/sections? I have several "courses" that are comprised of 200/300 HotPot exercises and this results in an unwieldy, slow-loading, extremely long main page. Of course, I hide what I can of the "chains" from students and suggest they view only one section at a time but the problem still remains. I would prefer them to see something more like a "menu" or "index" and not be swamped by details on the main page. (Not to mention that creating the course is very slow as so much has to be reloaded on each click.)

Related to the above, would it be possible to have the HotPot "scores" kept separate (or optionally so) from the Moodle "grades"? For me that are quite different and evaluate students' work in very different ways.
At the end of a course when 30 student have done 300 exercises, the HP socres as presented in Excel become very difficult to view or understand. In fact Excel gives an error message saying the number of possible columns is exceeded. I really just want to know whether or not the students have done the exercises, the exact scores are not really important (these are learning not testing exercises). At the moment (that is on Moodle 1.6, it was OK on Moodle 1.5.4), it's not possible to download the scores directly from "Grades" in Excel format but it is possible to download them in "text" format and copy into Excel. (Yes, I know you want to see an example of this, I'll try and put one on your test site, Gordon, next week.)
I know that the new version of HP (or what will replace it) will mean technically fewer HP exercises, but I think I'll still have a lot.

As I've already said, I'm making learning exercises and not tests or quizzes. In Moodle, students don't have time at the end of exercise to look at the answers and ponder on what makes them correct or incorrect: they are immediately moved on to the next exercise. Could this happen only after they have clicked on a real "Continue" button? (I don't understand the "Continue" button that appears in Moodle, it doesn't seem to make any difference whether you click on it or not.)

I don't often use the Masher, but I do have one little sequence that I've created with an introductory html page + a HP exo + another html page + another HP exo. In Moodle the html pages are ignored in the "chain" because I've selected "Show the next quiz" (I hate the word "quiz" - my exercises are not quizzes. Rant! Rant!). I haven't tested Martin's new SCORM Masher but I will.

That's maybe enough for today. But you can rely on me for more.
Hope I've been clear enough.

Cheers,
Glenys

Bonjour à tous,

J'ai lu avec intérêt la discussion précédente et je comprends qu'il doit être possible pour les étudiants d'insérer des images dans une page wiki mais ce n'est guère conviviale.

Je ne peux pas proposer une démarche aussi compliquée à mes étudiants à distance (pour moitié en Afrique) qui ne sont pas des informaticiens mais des professionels de la santé. Je voudrais leur proposer un travail collaboratif de création de documents en rapport avec leur métier. Comme exercice introductif, je leur ai demandé simplement de se présenter avec une photo d'eux-même et de leur ville ou région. Ils n'arrivent pas à mettre les images et moi non plus quand je log on comme étudiant. (Je peux comme enseignant et je peux comme étudiant dans les forums.)

J'ai lu également la discussion à http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=41230
mais je n'y vois pas de solution non plus.

Je trouve que le wiki actuelle (1.6.3) est vraiment trop buggie pour être utilisable par le commun des mortels.

N'est-il pas possible d'avoir quelque chose de vraiment conviviale comme Wetpaint dans Moodle? Ma question est naive - il y a sûrement des containtes techniques que je ne connais pas.

Bonne fin d'année à vous tous,

Glenys