When the teacher is upgrading a previously entered grade, we re-display
exactly what they typed before if possible, rather than displaying with
a set number of decimal places.
This patch conbines valuable contributions from Kashmira Nagwekar and
Luca Bösch. Many thanks to them. However, the final form of the fix,
and hence the blame, falls to me -- Tim.
There were several issues here:
* The load_questions_usages_by_activity method in
question/engine/datalib.php was incorrectly treating the case
when no data was returned. (Looks like a historic copy-pase from
other methods that fetch one item by unique id, which therefore
must exist.)
* The report was not correctly handling the display when the 'Which
tries' was set to 'with, and without, attempts'.
* It was possible to select the 'All tries' option when also saying
'Users without attempts'. This combination makes not sense, so
a disabledIf rule was added to the form.
1. getMock()
2. setExpectedException()
3. checkForUnintentionallyCoveredCode renamed to beStrictAboutCoversAnnotation
4. beStrictAboutTestSize renamed to enforceTimeLimit
5. UnitTestCase class is now fully removed.
dirname() is a slow function compared with __DIR__ and using
'/../'. Moodle has a large number of legacy files that are included
each time a page loads and is not able to use an autoloader as it is
functional code. This allows those required includes to perform as
best as possible in this situation.
Previously, the Check button was often shown disabled when it
could not be used (e.g. when the question was finished, or when an
interactive question was in the try-again state). Eventually we
realised it was better usability to hide it in these cases.
Note that when a teacher reviews an in-progress quiz attempt, they will
see a disabled Check button if the student doing the quiz can see the
button.
Currently the only use is the quiz Redo question button, and that would
be much better placed in the feedback area, not least for langages where
the button label needs to be longer.
Derived table support was altered in MySQL 5.7 changing the way in which
DELETE FROM works in some cases.
This change modifies the way in which deletion occurs by selecting all IDs
and batching them into groups of 1000.
Only change from 2.9 is the modification of the slasharguments
admin setting string to recommend always to keep the setting enabled
and fix the problem in the server, warning about the drawbacks
of disabling it.
Also, there is a little phpdoc note added to one custom check
to have clearly specified when we can get rid of it.
The change in MDL-51090 broke manually commenting on questions for which
no mark is given (max mark == 0). This fixes it, with unit tests.
Thanks to Nick Phillips for the original suggestion of the fix.
This feature is designed for use on pracice or formative quizzes.
It is available for quizzes that use Interactive or Immediate feedback
behaviour.
If the teacher turns this on in the quiz settings, then once a student
has finished a question, they get a 'Redo question' button beside the
question. If they click it, then the question they finished is replaced
by a new one so they can try again to practise that particul skill or
bit of knowledge a bit more.
When randomisation is involved, the studnets will be given a question or
variant that they have not seen before if possible.
* A method to change the max mark for one question_attempt in the usage
* A method to replace one question in a usage with another, moving the
old question_attempt to the end.
* Methods to set and get metadata (string name value pairs) for each
question_attempt in the usage. This gets stored in the first step in a
way that should not interfere with anything else.
There are several improvements over what we had before:
1. We track all the questions seen in the the student's previous
quiz attempts, so that when they start a new quiz attempt, they get
questions they have not seen before if possible.
2. When there are no more unseen questions, we start repeating, but
always taking from the questions with the fewest attempts so far.
3. A similar logic is applied with variants within one question.
There is lots of credit to go around here. Oleg Sychev's students Alex
Shkarupa, Sergei Bastrykin and Darya Beda all worked on this over
several years, helping to clarify the problem and shape the best
solution. In the end, their various attempts were rewritten into this
final patch by me.
Further improvements to this code, including resolving edge cases:
* The new feature can only be used when it is possible for the
previous question in the quiz to be complete.
* Also, this new feature cannot be used in combination with shuffle
questions, because that make no sense; nor in combination with
sequential navigation, because to make that work properly would be a lot
of effort. If someone needs that to work later, it should be possible
for them to implement it.
* There were changes in the edit renderer API, to try to make things
more consistent, and to make it less likely we will need to change
things again in the future. See mod/quiz/upgrade.txt.
* As part of this change, the styling of the Edit quiz page was tweaked
to make slighly more efficient use of the horizontal space, and to be
more symmetrical.
The new steps make it more efficient to create questions.
While making the changes, I took the opportunity to alter the tests to
follow Behat best practices, and only test one thing per scenario.
Variant has two purposes. First to determine which version of the
question the student will see. Hence it is used to set up the state
of the quetsion when the question is started. Then the internal state of
the question is saved in the first step.
Once that has been done, the variant number is purely informative, and
just used to break down the statistics.
In some cases (the one I have in mind is qtype_opaque) then there is a
complex randomisation process, which may lead to several inital variant
numbers acutally giving the same version of the question. In this case
it is nice if the question can update the stored variant number, to make
the statistics more meaningful.
The MySQL (& Maria DB) query 'optimizer' was failing to handle this
query, so for that DB only, we give it an equivalent query that it can
get right.
With unit test.
