Posts made by Visvanath Ratnaweera

Moodle in English -> General help -> Exception - syntax error, unexpected token ",", expecting ":" -> Re: Exception - syntax error, unexpected token ",", expecting ":"

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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These errors are typically incompatibilities with PHP, in this case an old version of Moove.

For the emergency, you can recover the site by switching to the standard theme Boost. Add the following line to moodle/config.php:

$CFG->theme='boost';
 
P.S. I think, this is an Installing and upgrading problem.
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Moodle in English -> Artificial intelligence (AI) and Moodle -> AI for the n00b

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Suddenly it started raining AI everywhere. The AI dept. of moodle.org was somewhere else, so offered no shelter. Since I avoid G-places I had nowhere to go. Today a web search brought me this - AI enhanced? Maybe. Still, I don't want to withhold it from you.

How to Protect Yourself from AI by Understanding THIS

https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/goodai:8

The title is misleading. It is the first of a series of talks, I think. This one just introduces the terms. Therefore be warned, only for the absolute n00b. ;)

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Moodle in English -> Quiz -> Time Taken by student to answer each question in quiz -> Re: Time Taken by student to answer each question in quiz

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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@all

I don't know why this discussion gets longer and longer. The answer is pretty simple:

  1. Moodle (as of today) doesn't have solution.

Source: Re: Time taken for each question

(@Marcus, thanks for the link.)

Well, it was said 14 years ago. @Tim, could you confirm that it is still true?

2. Feature request

So, what we are discussing is a feature request.

@Vikey, This is how I understand your sketch.

  • Let's say the candidate scored x marks in a question. x = 0..1.
    Note that it is not 0 or 1. Moodle gives all kinds of fractional marks, for example in a multiple-choice question, x could only be any real number between 0 and 1.

  • Let's say the candidate took a time of t seconds, 0 < t <= T to answer the question. Both t and T are an integers.

Now, given x, t and T, we need a formula for the measure of "combined goodness" of the candidate.

We know:

x : higher, the better

t : lower the better

T : higher the better

That's all we know. @Vikey, what is the formula you have in your design?

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Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> Moodle 4.5 Site Administration won't load after upgrade from 4.1.6 -> Re: Moodle 4.5 Site Administration won't load after upgrade from 4.1.6

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"baggage handler"! Ha, ha, ha. That's a good one.

On a philosophical note, did you know that The whole meaning of life is trying to find a place for your stuff?
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More seriously, talking of co-pilots, shouldn't we find one for Ken? Even world best pilot of a passenger aircraft won't fly without a co-pilot. We don't want hi-tech gadgets to fall from the sky, as in this current incident: Boeing-Made Satellite Explodes In Space, don't we?
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