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exams which fail to upload to numbas at L'boro but which run in tallaght. #90

Closed BillFoster closed 11 years ago

BillFoster commented 11 years ago

The following exams when uploaded to numbas at L'boro produce error messages for the source files. They both run OK on tallaght.

http://tallaght.ncl.ac.uk/exam/59/mas1041-test-1/

http://tallaght.ncl.ac.uk/exam/83/leicester-algebraic-manipulation/

Similarly for http://tallaght.ncl.ac.uk/exam/86/matrix-questions/

christianp commented 11 years ago

I express my continuing distaste at Python 2.6. But I had made a typo as well.

BillFoster commented 11 years ago

Still getting the same error. But I am finished for the night!!

christianp commented 11 years ago

aah! I need to remake each question's metadata! Whoops!

christianp commented 11 years ago

No, that isn't it... Maybe Loughborough aren't automatically updating their compiler along with the editor.

christianp commented 11 years ago

Until Loughborough get their act together, just making sure that the descriptions and author's notes for each question are non-empty will work around the problem.

BillFoster commented 11 years ago

But the exam http://tallaght.ncl.ac.uk/exam/86/matrix-questions/ still fails to upload to Numbas, L'boro even though all descriptions and author's notes are present in all questions.

christianp commented 11 years ago

Hm! Then I'll have to wait until Richard replies to my email about updating. I've checked our servers and they work, so I think it is just that Loughborough is out of date.

BillFoster commented 11 years ago

I see that you managed to get MAS1041 Test 1 loaded.

BillFoster commented 11 years ago

I think that we have to be careful with the question database as we now have the same questions with different authors. I have just gone through and eliminated duplicates that I created of my authored exams by attempting to upload exams into L'boro Numbas on several occasions - the questions get loaded but the exams not. So there is the opportunity for some confusion here!!

BillFoster commented 11 years ago

Uploading a question into Numbas at L'boro does not work - just get an empty question.

christianp commented 11 years ago

Oh, uploading questions doesn't work at all. I need to look at that again. For now, uploading it as an exam should work. You'll get an extra exam you need to delete, though.

christianp commented 11 years ago

fixed by ee0d57c3c2d1f