Peter Ruthven-Stuart

Bob,

I see you're a Mac user, so I may have a solution for you.

When I open CSV files downloaded from Moodle that contain Japanese I use Macs Text Editor program. However, before opening the CSV file, I open up the Editor settings, and set it to open files in Japanese (EUC), not Automatic. This seems to work.

You could also send me an example file, or the real file if the data is not sensitive, and I'll see if I can open it without getting garbled Japanese.

Michael

Thanks for your reply.

The thing is that I want to make all the activities in a category 'Extras Credit'. However, the help file explicitly says that, "Please note that setting all items to extra credit for a particular category will have unexpected results, and will most likely not count the category or extra credit at all."

I tried your suggestion, but it didn't get the result I was looking for. Despite the above warning, I changed all the activities in a category that I have called 'Bonus Tasks' to Extra Credit in the 'Set Categories' section, and then in the Set Weights Section' I set 'Bonus Tasks' category to be worth 5%. However, this had the effect of making the total out of 105% and therefore lowered students' grades. What I really want is for students grades to be out of 100%, but by including the 'Bonus Tasks' category they have the possibility of increasing their grade by an extra 5%.

On possible solution I have found at the moment is to make the 'bonus tasks' part of another category which contains tasks that are not for extra credit. I have tried this, and it seems to boost students' scores that have done the bonus tasks. However, from the students' point of view it will be confusing  since it indicates that they got 0% in tasks that they did well in, but their scores for these bonus tasks have in fact been taken into account in their final scores.

I'll have to experiment some more with the various configurations in the gradebook, and let you know what I find.

Thanks again for the advice.

Debra,

I had the same question a few weeks ago, and got a very useful answer. You'll find my post and the answer here:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=31909

Thanks for the answer, I suspected as much.

Renato

I think many people would like to help you, however you do need to give a bit more information about your problem.

There are two important pieces of information that you need to provide:

1. You need to explain what you did just before the error occurred. So, in your case you need to explain how and to where you uploaded a file, and how you made the link to it within moodle.
2. Also, you should say what version of moodle you are using, and if possible what versions of php and type of database you are using.

Without this kind of explanation it is very difficult for people to help you. Especially when they are not being paid to help . So, if you can give a slightly more detailed explanation of your problem, I or someone elese may be able to help.