Tim Hunt

Would it inconvenience anyone if we made this two-hours earlier?

Michael's proposed time is:

• 01:00 - 03:00 UK
• 02:00 - 04:00 Most of europe
• 06:30 - 08:30 India
• 09:00 - 11:00 Perth, WA
• 12:00 - 14:00 Sydney
• 14:00 - 16:00 Aukland
• 17:00 - 19:00 West coast US
• 20:00 - 22:00 East coast US
• 23:00 - 01:00 Brazil

(I hope I have copied this correctly from http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2012&month=11&day=20&hour=1&min=0&sec=0)

2 hours earlier seems to suit more people better, with, the exception of India and the middle east.

It probably depends on what you consider a "Field definition".

I think we do want Metadata field types defined globally. For example, if we have a field type "Licence" with a fixed set of possible values like "All rights reserved", "CC-BY-NC", ... then the set of permitted values should be the same for all types of object that have a License field.

However, the Licence field for objects of type Resources could well be a different field than the Licence field for Qusetions in the question bank.

On the other hand, even if they are separate field, we may still want to search for objects of any type where Licence = CC-BY-NC.

Indeed, Objects that metadata can be applied to would naturally form a type hierarchy, and you might apply some metadata fields to the base Object type, and others only to specific sub-types - or that might be too complex.

Clearly, lots of design decisions to make here.

Last week, Chris gave a webinar about STACK. You can watch the recording here: http://www.transformingassessment.com/events_7_november_2012.php. I recommend it.

In 2.x ou should use optional_param_array if you expect to get back multiple results like this. This was documented in the release notes.

This is not possible in Moodle.

If you really wanted this, it would be possible to implement it as a Quiz Access Rule plugin: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Quiz_access_rules