That is exactly what I did this Monday. I collected two attendance lists one at the beginning and one towards the end of the session:
Second one between 11:30-11:50 was the same.
Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Moodle in English -> Assignment -> Assignment creates attempts on its own and the students can never complete the task!
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Hi all
I am familiar with the Assignment activity, have been using it since the beginning and extensively in Moodle 4.1 LTS. Only recently upgraded Moodle to 4.5 LTS, currently running 4.5.3. I think, the new version does something unexpected.
A course has an assignment per session (section in the course). Students do the tasks in a practice computer remotely and submit the evidence requested in to the Assignment activity. The teacher marks them. The student get notified and he can resubmit two more times, if he wishes (subjected to a penalty) - all within the cut-off time.
The problem we have with two such assignments (in the same course) is that once the teacher marked the assignment and the student came back to see the marks and read the comments, the tool creates a new attempt thus never finishing the assignment. He can't move on to the next activity which is coupled to this activity. The completion condition is "Make a submission" - nothing more.
The odd thing is, we have four assignments in the course (so far) and two don't have this problem. My guess is that they were restored from the backup of last year's course, the two giving trouble have been created in this course.
The settings are in the screenshot below. I imagine it comes from the "Grant attempts" choice. But there is no "None" as a choice.
Also I can't make "Require the students to click the submit button". Why?
Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> A poll followed by a discussion
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Hi all
I need a poll, which participants can discuss after taking part like a Slashdot poll. Notice the discussion below the result.
I want it to happen in one activity. For example, a choice, feedback, questionnaire or quiz combined with a forum is not a solution.
And the poll is asynchronous (not real-time).
Moodle in English -> General help -> Unable to access site administration page -> Unable to access site administration page
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Other than "MySQL Ver 14.14", I believe it is MySQL 5.7.44, everything seems OK.
One line to investigate is whether the hosting people want to reserve yoursite/admin/ URL for themselves.
There is another group of people who blocks the yoursite/admin/ - the CDN providers. If you use any of them, study their settings carefully.
The third possibility is messed up file permissions in the Moodle code directory. The recovery from a crash blinks red lights. Do you know when this has started? Whether it correlates to some incident?
One line to investigate is whether the hosting people want to reserve yoursite/admin/ URL for themselves.
There is another group of people who blocks the yoursite/admin/ - the CDN providers. If you use any of them, study their settings carefully.
The third possibility is messed up file permissions in the Moodle code directory. The recovery from a crash blinks red lights. Do you know when this has started? Whether it correlates to some incident?
The "Cannot find the 404 errordocument" points to a completely different direction. It sounds like the web server configuration went corrupt.
Moodle in English -> General help -> Unable to access site administration page -> Unable to access site administration page
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Other that the version of the Moodle core (3.7) we know nothing of your Moodle. The other relevant information are listed in Before you post... read this....
In addition, get the full information of your PHP environment as explained in https://docs.moodle.org/en/PHP#Displaying_phpinfo_outside_of_Moodle and look for everything odd.
You are sure that the hosting people haven't touched your Moodle all these years? Moodle 3.7 was released 6 years ago! Typically they upgrade software which Moodle depends on, PHP, MySQL, etc., and break Moodle. In your case it doesn't seem to be the case. Did you say, you have a dedicated server? That explains (the hosting is not managed, they don't touch it). Your problem looks like messed up (Unix) file permissions. You said something about renaming ./admin/ to ./admin2/. How do you access the system for such operations? The "tool", I mean, a "panel" (GUI) or Unix shell (CLI)?