Come to the Moodle Moot in the UK in October and fine out!
From what I remember, Martin D uses a Mac. Martin L certainly does. I am typing this on a Mac (in a plain text box) that I also use for Moodle development, but at work I am provided with a PC. I can't remember what other Mac users there are, but when I have been to Moodle conferences I have always seen plenty of Macs.
Tim Hunt
Posts made by Tim Hunt
Moodle in English -> Languages -> Better help files -> Re: Better help files
by Tim Hunt -
Speaking as a developer, what would make my life easiest would be if the translation tools could be taught to connect to CVS (or maybe just look for a $Id: ...$ tag at the start of the file) and find out the last edited date on each file, and therefore automatically work out which help files changed when, and so which ones need updating.
But of course, that is just me, and there must be hundreds of translators, and only one of me.
But of course, that is just me, and there must be hundreds of translators, and only one of me.
Moodle in English -> Languages -> Better help files -> Re: Better help files
by Tim Hunt -
How about option 3: Improve the English text then translate the improved content?
Moodle in English -> Moodle community sites -> Moodle documentation: Howtos for new plug-in developers -> Re: Moodle documentation: Howtos for new plug-in developers
by Tim Hunt -
docs.moodle.org - see the developer link on the left.
Moodle in English -> Quiz and question banks -> Minor changes to how quizzes work in 1.9
by Tim Hunt -
For Moodle 1.9, I think I have just fixed the following:
MDL-8682: Pressing enter when answering a short answer question can submit the wrong one
MDL-9451: Quiz answers can be lost if user navigates before page reloads
and I want to explain what I have done so that
a) you know what changes are coming up; and
b) you can sanity check what I have done, and tell me if I have been silly.
For the first bug, basically, I have made it ignore the enter key (unless you are typing into a HTML editor or text box) except where the keyboard focus is on a submit button. That mean, when you are typing into a shortanswer question, you can't submit the quiz by pressing enter/return. However, you can tab to the submit button and press enter to submit the question or whole quiz.
For the second one, I am not 100% sure the change I have made fixes the problem. What was happening was that, if you navigated to another page of the quiz before the whole page had finished loading, the student's answers were overwritten with a blank answer. Now what should happen is that no answers are saved unless the whole quiz is loaded. So if you click the wrong page, you can quickly click on another page without having to wait for the whole page to load.
Now, the only way you can lose and answer is if you are on a slow server with a quiz page with loads of questions on it, and while the page is still loading, your answer a question near the top and submit it. I think this is pretty unlikely, while the existing bug was happening to people.
Also, I fixed MDL-11463: The quiz uses two different timers, which is silly. Basically, for quizzes with a time limit, it showed the countdown clock which submits the quiz just before the time runs out; while for quizzes with no time limit, if you were less than a day from the close date, it put a countdown in the browser's title bar! Now, it just uses the countdown clock, and it displays it on the page for quizzes with a time limit, or if you are less than an hour from the close date.
Anyone who can test these changes in 1.9 beta+ will earn my gratitude (and a pint of beer if you come to the UK Moodle Moot next month). Thanks.
MDL-8682: Pressing enter when answering a short answer question can submit the wrong one
MDL-9451: Quiz answers can be lost if user navigates before page reloads
and I want to explain what I have done so that
a) you know what changes are coming up; and
b) you can sanity check what I have done, and tell me if I have been silly.
For the first bug, basically, I have made it ignore the enter key (unless you are typing into a HTML editor or text box) except where the keyboard focus is on a submit button. That mean, when you are typing into a shortanswer question, you can't submit the quiz by pressing enter/return. However, you can tab to the submit button and press enter to submit the question or whole quiz.
For the second one, I am not 100% sure the change I have made fixes the problem. What was happening was that, if you navigated to another page of the quiz before the whole page had finished loading, the student's answers were overwritten with a blank answer. Now what should happen is that no answers are saved unless the whole quiz is loaded. So if you click the wrong page, you can quickly click on another page without having to wait for the whole page to load.
Now, the only way you can lose and answer is if you are on a slow server with a quiz page with loads of questions on it, and while the page is still loading, your answer a question near the top and submit it. I think this is pretty unlikely, while the existing bug was happening to people.
Also, I fixed MDL-11463: The quiz uses two different timers, which is silly. Basically, for quizzes with a time limit, it showed the countdown clock which submits the quiz just before the time runs out; while for quizzes with no time limit, if you were less than a day from the close date, it put a countdown in the browser's title bar! Now, it just uses the countdown clock, and it displays it on the page for quizzes with a time limit, or if you are less than an hour from the close date.
Anyone who can test these changes in 1.9 beta+ will earn my gratitude (and a pint of beer if you come to the UK Moodle Moot next month). Thanks.