Visvanath Ratnaweera

I hope this is not a question from your FAQ ;(

First of all I must congratulate the makers of the Quiz module. It played a key-role in convincing my collegues to use Moodle rather than a propriatory product!

I've planned a rehearsal-test for everybody, teachers as well as students, to get used to the interface. There's one remaining issue: The students see the total number of points between submissions. That way, they get some feedback _before_ the test is over!

This is the setup:
- the test needs a password, which is given to them in the exam hall
- the test is in "safe-mode". They are adviced not to use any other "window" (that will be superviesed)
- students are allowed to keep on submitting until the dead-line, the last attempt counts. No need to say, they shouldn't see any results during the test!
- there's no penalty for retrying

I can set everything as above exept for the third point. Thers's a whole field of option boxes, 3x6 if I remember right. Whatever I do there, the students can see their total score after each submission.

I could reduce the risk by setting the maximum number of tries to 3. But why those option boxes don't behave, is a big quesion.

What am I doing wrong?

Usually, on Windows, mail server is something seperate from your web server where Moodle is run.

Moodle just needs to know what the server is and how to connect. For example the server could be DNS name like "somename.mydomain.xy" or just an IP address like "a.b.c.d".

To connect, on some servers you need a username and a password, on some not. Only the person who runs the mail server can give you that information.

> a properly tuned and configured Windows / IIS / MySQL or PostgreSQL / PHP (WIMP) platform can perform just as well as a properly tuned and configured Linux / Apache / MySQL or PostgreSQL / PHP (LAMP)

I've heard the same argument in different context. Isn't the statement "rhetorical"? Unless it is clear what is meant by "properly tuned" nobody can prove the contrary!

Anyway just happen to see this: http://research.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/LAMP_versus_WIMP

I guess the man behind the scene is a fellow Moolder: http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=78158&course=5

Whether this is the "proper" way, I don't know. This is how I would do it:

- delelte the Moodle "php" directory, for example
rm -rf /var/www/moodle

- delete the Moodle "data" direcotry, e.g.
rm -rf /var/www/moodledata

- drop the Moodle database. Usually you have phpMyAdmin. On mysql-tool it looks like
mysql> drop database moodle;

Hello Zusammen

Vielen Dank für die Anregungen und Hilfe!

Für diese Runde hab ich Variante 1 gewählt. Im Team erstellen wir einen "Musterkurs" und dann kopieren. Didaktische Freiheit geht vor!

Wie gesagt, einige Fragen sind noch offen. Was mich gerade interessieren wurde

- in der Variante 2, hab ich nicht fertiggebracht, dass die TN den Gruppenschlüssel eingeben zu müssen

- Variante 3: Wie ist es am Ende eines Semesters, wo sind die Kursdaten: im Metakurs oder "Klassen"kurs?

- Variante 3: Was ist der "Stammkurs" aus TN-Sicht? Oder anders ausgedruckt, gehen die Links vom Metakurs in Klassenkurs oder umgekehrt?

Visvanath