Tim Hunt

I suspect that what is happening is something like this:

1. Student starts quiz.
2. After 6:55 student does submit all and finish. However the counter keeps counting down.
3. Moodle is a bit slow to process the results, and takes more than 5 seconds.
4. So after the counter gets to 0:00, the quiz is submitted again, which interrupts the processing that is already happening, and starts another lot of processing.

That is a very bad thing. Could you file a but in http://tracker.moodle.org/ about this. I think we need to make it so that clicking submit all and finish stops the timer.

If you are trying to import into Moodle, and massaging question files using scripts, it is probably better to aim at Moodle XML format - other things being equal.

Of work on question/format/webct/format.php to make it better. I am sure Howard would be delighted to receive improvements and integrate them.

Howard, have you seen the changes in Moodle 2.0? That deals with the appearance issue at least.

Moodle should work with JavaScript off, and indeed all the timing is enforced on the server. The timer is just a convenience for the user, to ensure that they do submit before the deadline.

Of course, we must solve the bug relating to quiz attempts that are not finished before the time runs out - there should be some way for the teacher to forcibly close them. That bug has been around for far too long.

Couldn't you just create separate quizzes, and then in the introduction to each one, include links to the others.

Ah, no the problem there is that there is not way to stop the student attempting both. I see.

Hmm. As Ray says, it would be interesting to see how far you can get with the multilang filter.

At the moment the review links for all attempts are on the mod/quiz/view.php page. You could look at the code there, and may be tweak it to include an extra link to the student's last attempt, if you think that is worth doing.