Posts made by Visvanath Ratnaweera

Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> Off-the-grid Moodle sites which are capable of syncing with the mother-site? -> Re: Off-the-grid Moodle sites which are capable of syncing with the mother-site?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Hi Daniel

About my experiments: 

Quoted from https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=465418#p1870244:

One point though to avoid a wrong impression: We are working with those schools at the "must have" level, i.e. a Linux PC with a good screen running education software locally on Linux. We don't have immediate plans for the the other, nice-to-have, levels. The off-site Moodle is just a thought, a possible use-case, that materialized during this rather long exchange the presentation in the OP initiated. 

So a thought, since I know places first-hand that would profit. But as others are pointing out, not an easy job.

About bi-directional information transfer:

From the center to the satellites is obvious. The question whether one-time or repeatedly is being argued. From satellites to the center is even more arguable. As you pointed out, there are use cases. Others say, No. Admittedly, this direction is technically more challenging. With my usual Linux admin work, also managing Moodle and actively participating in the MoodleBox forum and testing, albeit in different, first-world, scenarios, I was thinking of a simplified work-flow. I don't think it is a bad idea. You see the others here are having their own work-flows. So this simplified work-flow could still be useful as a greatest common divisor for many.

Yeah, the challenge is exciting for the technophile. Not my top priority - you know where it is [1] - but who knows.

[1] How to clean up a site with massively duplicated question categories?

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Moodle in English -> Quiz -> How to clean up a site with massively duplicated question categories? -> Re: How to clean up a site with massively duplicated question categories?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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The database crashes (exits) regularly when the quiz load ramps up. DB restart helped. But this can not be normal. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=464421#p1870340. 
 
I've posted detailed information in the original post. If more required, please ask!
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Moodle in English -> Quiz -> Special Release Announcement for Moodle LMS -> Re: Special Release Announcement for Moodle LMS: Documentation

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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I thought of the possibility that M 4.6 and 5.0dev being different. But Luca confirmed my Part 1. The Part 2 is just an elaboration of what he suggested in the same post. I understood Tim's post below as another confirmation. Therefore I am convinced that my scenarios Part 1 and Part 2 are correct - although I haven't tested them. I need a definition to test, got them just now. Sure, I will test those "definitions" at leisure.
 
And to the question whether I don't need the question sharer role, pl. note that I am not testing something I want to do, rather trying to find out what the product does or better, what are the new functionality 4.6 adds to the quiz system.
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Moodle in English -> Quiz -> Special Release Announcement for Moodle LMS -> Re: Special Release Announcement for Moodle LMS: Documentation

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Here comes the promised second part.
 
Part 2. The new question banks in combination with the old question categories
In Part 1 we said, "A, B and C make a fresh start in sharing questions on a fresh Moodle 4.6". Let's change that and assume that the said courses have the old (hierarchical) question categories. Let us call those in course1 1P, 1Q,.. those in course 2 2P, 2Q,.. those in course 3 3P, 3Q,..
 
Now, when A makes a quiz in course 1 or B makes a quiz in courses 2 or 3 OR C makes a quiz in courses 1 or 2 or 3, in addition to the mixing questions from the question banks as explained in Part 1, they can also add the available question categories to the mix. For example, B can mix in a quiz in course 1, questions from question banks 1X, 1Y,.. 1P, 1Q, and 2X, 2Y,.. - selected or random, in any order.
 
P.S. Neither in Part 1 nor in Part 2 the Question sharer role was ever mentioned. i.e. the Question sharer role is unnecessary for Part 1 and Part 2 to work.
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