Hi Ben & Mary,
I've been 'back and forth' with our hosting service. They can't find any problem with the gs path and suggest it is a moodle issue. Do you have suggestions from the moodle end?
Graeme
(Edited by Mary Cooch - to improve subject title - original submission Sunday, 16 March 2014, 5:12 AM)
Hello Graeme
I'm not technical so I can't offer more specific advice but I have edited the title of your post to make it easier for those who are technical to assist; hopefully you should get some suggestions soon.
And can you confirm that your earlier problem (with older-type assignments) has been resolved - ie, all assignments and assignment types have been upgraded?)
Hi Graeme,
As I was originally responsible for writing the line of code that gives the error you are having trouble with ("The ghostscript path points to a non-existent file"), I will try and shed some light on it.
During the tests of ghostscript on the server, whatever you have typed into the 'ghostscript path' settings box is passed into the standard PHP function 'file_exists' ( http://uk1.php.net/file_exists ).
The only way to get the error above error message, is if 'file_exists' returns false.
As far as PHP is concerned, whatever you have typed in to that box, is not a file that exists on the server the PHP code is running on. It may be that the file in question does exist, but the permissions prevent PHP from accessing it, or the file path may simply not be there on the server.
Please also double-check you have given a file path not a web URL (e.g. '/usr/bin/gs' or 'c:\gs\gswin32c.exe' NOT 'http://www.example.com/usr/bin/gs') and that the full path has been given, including the name of the executable file, not just the path to the directory that contains the executable file.
Hi Graeme,
I'm only slightly more technical than Mary. My first suspicion would be that the path you have entered has a typo. Here's the path on my local host. I'm using Win 7 Pro.
C:\gs\gs9.07\bin\gswin64c.exe
Note the "c" in the executable. In my localhost gs version there is another executable without the "c" at the end. I gather you should not use the non-c exe.
You also want to make sure there are no spaces at the beginning or end and none between the items in the path.
It would be best to actually show the path you are using and the path your host confirms is the correct one so we can all see them, if that isn't a security violation.
A slightly wilder thing to consider might be that, if you're working on a Windows server perhaps the path refers to some kind of Windows "shortcut" that php doesn't know how to recognize.
Just saying you made some points I didn't think of, Davo, and thanks for that!
After setting up an assignment, for example file upload, but also online text, only my text appears, the submission button and/or the text editor just don't appear. Have I missed a stage - I think my setting are correct but unsure! Can anyone advise?
Rob
You are probably correct but you need to log in as a real (or at least a test) student to see if you can see the submit button and text editor. Have you done that?
Hi Mary,
So switching roles would not facilitate this?
hey just tried that and the submission button was there, thank you very much.
Rob
Switching roles only offers an incomplete idea of what a course looks like for a student.
Certain actions (specifically submitting assignments) are specifically excluded from working with switch roles (as the submitted work would not be visible on the grading pages, due to the user not having the 'submit' permission when they have not switched roles).
Hi everyone,
some students submitted their papers for the weekly assignment in a wrong section; I need move those papers to the correct week. I've tried to get a closer look to the moodle docs, but seems there's no deal with this issue. How can I do that?
Thanks for your support,
F.M. Ceci
There is an FAQ in Roles FAQ related to this 'Why doesn't switch roles in a course seem to work properly?' and I have just added Davo's comments regarding assignments to it. Thanks
This is one of the reasons with give teachers to capability to "Login as." It can be done at the category or course level by an admin.
Once you have login as, you login as the student, go to where the file is wrongly located, download it, delete the file in the wrong place, go to the right place and upload.
Or, tell the students to do that work. Most of our 13 year olds have no trouble correcting their errors, as long as the submissions are not locked.
Now I understand! Thanks, Davo, for explaining this bit of mystery.
Just to clarify - this has always been my understanding of why you can't submit assignments when you have done 'switch role to'. It may not have been the exact reason why it was so (but it makes sense to me).
My preferred solution, especially when I wanted to demonstrate to students how to submit work, was simply to assign myself the role of 'student' in addition to 'editing teacher', at the course level. That way I could submit work and have it show up on the grading page.
Hi, wondering if anyone can provide some assistance.
We use a combination of Lessons and File-Submissions for our assessments. Lessons have a neat feature that when a student submits their work, they automatically display on the grade book as "TBC" (to be confirmed). When the teacher then goes in and assigns a grade of 0 it updates to NYC (not-yet-competent), or a grade of 10 it updates to C (competent).
With file submissions, even after the student has submitted successfully, the gradebook stays as a -.
Is there any possible way we can have the gradebook update the grade to TBC rather than -. Then when the teacher comes into grade it manually they will do so.
I think this would be really helpful for our students. Any ideas?
2.5.1+ (Build: 20130712)
The swedish language pack seems to have been updated yesterday - http://download.moodle.org/download.php/langpack/2.5/sv.zip and has only 82% of it translated.
If you go to http://yoursite.com/admin/tool/customlang/index.php (replace "yoursite.com" with your actual site) and select the swedish pack, you can then "open language pack for editing"
After it loads up you can either select to show the strings from "mod" of assign.php or search for strings related to assignment and modify them accordingly.
Good work John finding MDL-35108 and mentioning it here, thus encouraging people to vote for it.
You'll notice that I just added 2.6.2 as affects version to hopefully increase the chances of it being fixed. You could also attach the image from your initial post to the tracker issue, as it illustrates the problem really well.
Hi John,
Now that you have pointed this out as being missing, I would like to see it fixed, so I voted for it too. I just checked this in Moodle 2.6.2+ (Build: 20140320), and if you really want the capability, you COULD use the old assignment 2.2 type. The Grade Analysis icon still shows up for them.
The thing is, it takes two clicks in the old assignment and either 3 or 4 clicks in the new assignment, to get to the students feedback page. The first click just puts you in edit mode for changing the grade.
Hi,
We have the same problem. We are on Moodle 2.5 and we have recently updated the assignments from 2.2 to the new type.
In the grading summary it counts all of the participants even if the particular tutor does not have access to all of the groups. I would like to identify this as a bug as well.
Hello
I have made an assignment activity in my moodle course. The students have uploaded their work and I have been able to download all the submissions as a zip file. I have used the edit tools in Microsoft word to give them feedback and would now like to upload the files back onto moodle. When I go into the the assessment activity then click "veiw/grade all submissions" in the grading action drop down menu there is only "download all submission" and "view gradebook" there is no upload option. Is there something I need to change in the assessment setting so that this option shows?
Nic