by Tim Gildersleeve.
Hi
I am due to move Bradford College over to Moodle 3.1.1 in the next few weeks from Moodle 2.9.5. After a few glitches with BCU and moving to Adaptable I thought I had everything working and ready to go. I had even completed my pre-upgrade "what to expect" email for all college staff, then I started having another play with Assignments.
I should say that we mainly use Turnitin Assignment 2, and not the default Moodle assignments for most purposes but for somethings this isn't really appropriate so we do still need the core Assignments.
Immediately I had some issues with it - getting unoconv working was a surprising challenge and I am still very dubious about something that people say doesn't always work! Saying to our lecturers that it could fail and if it does - well tough really I cant get it to recreate the pdf - isn't going to go down the best! Regardless it seems to be working now.
My issues though are first of all the main assignment option "seems" to take you out of Moodle. All Moodle branding is "gone" and it just looks like the site has been hijacked. It would have been much better from a usability viewpoint if it still had the site header on it. This issue is "frustrating" but not the end of the world.
What is causing me a lot of grief however is I do not seem to be able to delete a students submission. I can see the list of users and their uploads. I can click edit submission. I can then click on their submission and choose delete. I can click save..... but then I get an error saying that there already is a submission and I should close the page and try again. Of course there is already a submission..... why else would I be trying to delete it? Either way, it simply will not save the changes once I delete the file.
The only way I have now of deleting student submissions is to log on as the student and then delete them. This works - although clunky - but I do sometimes give override permissions to certain lecturers to be able to edit others submissions so they can delete submissions (and submit on behalf of their students), and there is no way I am giving "logon as" permissions to lecturers.
I have so far tried on about 5 different installs of Moodle 3.1 - three new virtual machines spun up just for testing this issue and all have the same issue.
Can anyone shed any light?
Kind regards
Tim Gildersleeve
VLE Developer
Bradford College