[Xerte] Issues with Online Toolkits /Xerte with quiz

[Julian Tenney]

The page needs to reset when a theme is changed because all the element need to be redrawn using the new colours. I don't know up front what elements a page has and whether they are part of the display or not. There are two options:


-          Reset the page and let the parser redraw everything by resetting the page;

-          Keep track of all current elements and redraw them one by one without redrawing the page.

The second options is much more difficult, especially when you think about handling 'any' interactivity, possibly many levels deep, with custom items drawn by the developer using the default colours for the current theme. Keeping track of that is a nightmare, and would probably involve the developer in signalling which interface items needed to be redrawn, and how.

It is much easier to reset the page. The best thing I can do is to add a prompt 'Changing the theme will reset the page. Do you want to continue...?'

In the two years the software's been out there, this is the first time the issue has surfaced, so I don't think it's a major problem,

J



From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 25 October 2010 14:48
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Issues with Online Toolkits /Xerte with quiz

I think changing the colour scheme midway through completing a quiz does effectively reset the quiz attempt which is unfortunate and possibly something which can be fixed - I'm sure Julian will respond. But I can't replicate the other errors you report.

Try page 32 of the page types example http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560 and/or my quick test here http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/moodle/xertetoolkits/play.php?template_id=142

Try replacing yourinstall\modules\xerte\parent_templates\Nottingham\models\quiz.rlm with the one from the latest download.

HTH
Ron


From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 25 October 2010 13:00
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Issues with Online Toolkits /Xerte with quiz

If you download it and run it locally do you get the same problem?

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Jack [christopherjack at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 12:58 PM
To: Xerte discussion list; Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Issues with Online Toolkits /Xerte with quiz
Hi,

There seems to be a major issue with the template colour schemes option and the quiz.

If a student tries to change the colour scheme while in a quiz the quiz starts to act funny.

So far with regards to 'funny'

We have had,

*  Quiz moves onto next question but title strap still thinks its the previous question (could affect SCORM grades)
*  Quiz actually Disappears
*  Question Straps say undefined
*  Quiz disappears and a restart button appears

Has anyone came across this/is there a fix , if there is not we might have to disable the feature,

The behaviour acts a little better in the newest evrsion, though still appears to 'break' the quiz.

Many Thanks

Chris


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