by Tim Gildersleeve.
Not managed to find a solution to this issue, and really not happy with the changes to the Assignment tool in general.
Adding to core what can best be described as "experimental" code (anything that requires cron entrys to check it is still running and restart it - already has low confidence) is a worrying move in my view. Bloating the tool to the extent that there are recommendations to offset pdf creation to a second server is again a very strange move.
I can only hope that in the next year, these changes mature to being worthy of considered core changes, but while they have been pushed upon us already I would not consider them more than beta. I realise my view matters not, but I would have thought that such major changes should have been made optional. Considering that converting documents to PDF doesn't actually give a 100% reliable representation of the student's work as converter tools often alter formatting, there could even be claims from students that their work was altered before being graded.
While I am saddened to do so, I am forced for this year to avoid 3.1 and upgrade instead to 3.0.x which I was planning to skip due to updates ending in 2017 before the end of the academic year. I just hope that this is a one off because I am losing faith in Moodle HQ pushing these changes on us when they clearly have such wide repercussions.