Visvanath Ratnaweera

I think you have two things in one:
A.
> 1. Have you read and understood what is required of you in the terms of assessment?
> 2. Do you understand the requirements of the assessment?
> 3. Do you agree to the way in which you are being assessed?
> 4. Do you understand your rights to appeal the decisions made in an assessment?
>
> However, there are no right or wrong questions as such..

 

I don't agree. You want to take the assessment even they haven't understood the requirements? I would say, No. The expected answer is: Yes. Same with the other three.

 

So, the quiz is the correct tool, students need to pass with 100% marks. If not, for example, go back and read the requirements and come back, etc. You can allow unlimited attempts until quiz passed with 100% score.

 

B. 

> Do you have any special needs or considerations which need to be taken into account for the assessments?

 

This is an entirely different thing. If the answer is Yes, you have to take special precautions. Something like the Choice tool suits this better. You have to set e-mail notifications. Only thing, I don't know how to set Moodle e-mail only if the answer is Yes.

The Swiss politics finally seeing the light of the day:
https://fackel.substack.com/p/swiss-govt-rejects-palantir-citing

Over the years there was always news like that the Swiss military is considering hiring a cloud infrastructure from Palantir and similar "offers". I was thinking what the Swiss were thinking. Knowing their strong feeling for independence with money at the top, I just tried to look away. Finally they had enough, may be his boys' club with Trump, Mask or even Zuckerberg convinced the authorities.

If you don't know Palantir, it is the mother house of Cambridge Analytica. The world may have forgotten the scandal but I haven't forgotten undercover journalists recorded a "business meeting" with its high ranking salesmen who offered them to swing the elections of a country in favour of their customers, presented a comprehensive "war plan" with WWII style surveillance, honey pots, etc. 

And if you don't know its boss, that is Alex Carp, the shirtless convener of a memorable board meeting, it circulates in all the media. And the bizarre connection to Switzerland is Palantir is suing the reporter who pointed out that Alex Carp himself was meeting Swiss ministers since 2018 and even offered the contact tracing application during Covid, for free, if I haven't misread.

(German)
https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/digital/414349713-us-techgigant-palantir-klagt-gegen-das-republik-magazin

The reports were like:
https://www.republik.ch/2025/12/09/warum-palantir-zum-risiko-fuer-die-schweiz-wird

Hi

Yes, what you see (screenshot) is indeed confusing. Some clock times in 24h format, some in 12h format!

I don't know the exact cause, of course should be somewhere in a setting or settings, in Moodle - site-wide and/or user-specific - or even system-wide like Locales of the server.

 

My solution to the "Closing date" problem too is, always 23:59 hrs closing times. Otherwise people would thing "13 March" is any time on 13 March. If you meant end of (your) working day and closes the door at at 17:00 hrs, people will get locked out.

 

Note that I did not address the BIG, BIG problem, if people are in different time zones. From your other posts in the Quiz forum, I know that you have a world-wide audience. I too have scattered, multi-continental audience. That Moodle never mentions the time zone when it displays time has been a huge problem for me from the beginning of times. The regulars here are bored, myself too, so not going to open that topic here. Have wasted enough time on that.

You knew that Moodle 4.5 LTS requires 4.1.2 LTS or higher to upgrade?

 

Source: https://moodledev.io/general/releases/4.5