qtitools-discuss

Re: [Qtitools-discuss] R2Q2 problem with playr

[Steve L. <sw...@ca...>]

Jonathon Hare wrote:
 > Your second issue is interesting - I believe we ran into this on Jiri's
 > windows machine [tomcat 5.5.something], but couldn't find a fix other
 > than to upgrade tomcat (I successfully used 5.5.23, 6.0.14 and 6.0.18 on
 > the mac, and didn't have any problems with jsp:includes). If that
 > doesn't work, or you can't change your tomcat version, a possible fix
 > might be to rename the tests.xhtml file to tests.jsp and modify
 > index.jsp to reflect this (googling for that exception seems to
 > highlight a few people having problems when including non-jsp files...).

Thanks, I'm on apache-tomcat-5.5.17.  Your little fix seems to have 
worked (the renaming files) so I'm all set now.  I could probably manage 
to upgrade during the week.

Thanks again for the quick response.  Really useful.  I've taken the 
liberty of sending it back to the list in case anyone else gets this 
problem.

How easy is it to get the Moodle plugin going?  I'm wondering whether to 
install Moodle on my laptop to show the integration step.  If there are 
instructions anywhere, a pointer would be great!

Steve

Re: [Qtitools-discuss] R2Q2 problem with playr

[Jonathon H. <js...@ec...>]

Hi Steve

There is a distinct lack of documentation for the moodle plugin...  
Basically, you need to checkout the moodle-qtiplayr-plugin directory,  
and copy this directory to your moodle "mod" directory - I think you  
also need to rename it to "qtiplayr". Then in a browser, go to the  
moodle admin pages & it should auto install. There is a page in which  
you can set the url of the playr which the plugin should talk too,  
linked from the moodle module settings pages (this is standard for  
all moodle plugins, so is documented on the moodle site to some  
extent). To use the plugin, set-up or select a course, and then you  
should be able to select qtiplayr as an activity to add... The  
options for setting the activity are fairly self-explanatory :)

Let me know if you try this and run into any problems.

-Jon


On 9 Jun 2008, at 01:24, Steve Lay wrote:

> Jonathon Hare wrote:
> > Your second issue is interesting - I believe we ran into this on  
> Jiri's
> > windows machine [tomcat 5.5.something], but couldn't find a fix  
> other
> > than to upgrade tomcat (I successfully used 5.5.23, 6.0.14 and  
> 6.0.18 on
> > the mac, and didn't have any problems with jsp:includes). If that
> > doesn't work, or you can't change your tomcat version, a possible  
> fix
> > might be to rename the tests.xhtml file to tests.jsp and modify
> > index.jsp to reflect this (googling for that exception seems to
> > highlight a few people having problems when including non-jsp  
> files...).
>
> Thanks, I'm on apache-tomcat-5.5.17.  Your little fix seems to have  
> worked (the renaming files) so I'm all set now.  I could probably  
> manage to upgrade during the week.
>
> Thanks again for the quick response.  Really useful.  I've taken  
> the liberty of sending it back to the list in case anyone else gets  
> this problem.
>
> How easy is it to get the Moodle plugin going?  I'm wondering  
> whether to install Moodle on my laptop to show the integration  
> step.  If there are instructions anywhere, a pointer would be great!
>
> Steve
>
>

Re: [Qtitools-discuss] R2Q2 problem with playr

[Steve L. <sw...@ca...>]

This message was useful.  I got the plugin going with a colleague of 
mine (he ran moodle, I ran the webapps) using these instructions.  We 
were able to successfully add a test, take it and view the report.

I also tried to get it going on my laptop (Mac with Tiger and php4) 
alone but I get an error from the module which suggests to me that you 
might require php5.  Here it is:

[11-Jun-2008 07:12:00] PHP Parse error:  parse error in 
/Users/swl10/Sites/moodle/mod/qtiplayr/playrlib.inc.php on line 37

Steve

Jonathon Hare wrote:
> Hi Steve
> 
> There is a distinct lack of documentation for the moodle plugin... 
> Basically, you need to checkout the moodle-qtiplayr-plugin directory, 
> and copy this directory to your moodle "mod" directory - I think you 
> also need to rename it to "qtiplayr". Then in a browser, go to the 
> moodle admin pages & it should auto install. There is a page in which 
> you can set the url of the playr which the plugin should talk too, 
> linked from the moodle module settings pages (this is standard for all 
> moodle plugins, so is documented on the moodle site to some extent). To 
> use the plugin, set-up or select a course, and then you should be able 
> to select qtiplayr as an activity to add... The options for setting the 
> activity are fairly self-explanatory :)
> 
> Let me know if you try this and run into any problems.
> 
> -Jon

Re: [Qtitools-discuss] R2Q2 problem with playr

[Steve L. <sw...@ca...>]

Just to follow up on this, given that we only had the moodle part of the 
demo running with the aid of Windows <-> Mac connectivity we didn't go 
live with that on the day.  However, this evening we've worked on 
getting playr working on the Windows box with some success.

In doing this we discovered a bug in constructr when running on a 
Windows server.  The problem is to do with the writing of paths directly 
into href attributes when writing out to XML files.  These paths need to 
go through an encoding process to turn them in to valid relative URIs. 
Our content was failing because constructr was using the DOS-style 
backslash path separator which isn't valid in a URI.

I've attached a diff to this message to show you how I fixed the problem 
for our content but the real solution is to hunt down a class for 
dealing with other characters that need escaping too.  I have some 
python code which does something very similar if you end up needing to 
roll your own -- I had a quick look and couldn't see an obvious way to 
do this with java.net.URI or java.net.URL.

Tell me if you want me to commit this diff back to the SVN or if you 
want to fix this properly yourself ;-)

Steve

Re: [Qtitools-discuss] R2Q2 problem with playr

[Jonathon H. <js...@ec...>]

Yeah, I think you may be right - I seem to remember having to use  
some php5 only http functionality (the alternative was some obscure  
php plugin) as time was tight...
It works fine on my Macs with php5 (both Tiger and Leopard).

-Jon


On 11 Jun 2008, at 12:21, Steve Lay wrote:

> This message was useful.  I got the plugin going with a colleague  
> of mine (he ran moodle, I ran the webapps) using these  
> instructions.  We were able to successfully add a test, take it and  
> view the report.
>
> I also tried to get it going on my laptop (Mac with Tiger and php4)  
> alone but I get an error from the module which suggests to me that  
> you might require php5.  Here it is:
>
> [11-Jun-2008 07:12:00] PHP Parse error:  parse error in /Users/ 
> swl10/Sites/moodle/mod/qtiplayr/playrlib.inc.php on line 37
>
> Steve
>
> Jonathon Hare wrote:
>> Hi Steve
>> There is a distinct lack of documentation for the moodle plugin...  
>> Basically, you need to checkout the moodle-qtiplayr-plugin  
>> directory, and copy this directory to your moodle "mod" directory  
>> - I think you also need to rename it to "qtiplayr". Then in a  
>> browser, go to the moodle admin pages & it should auto install.  
>> There is a page in which you can set the url of the playr which  
>> the plugin should talk too, linked from the moodle module settings  
>> pages (this is standard for all moodle plugins, so is documented  
>> on the moodle site to some extent). To use the plugin, set-up or  
>> select a course, and then you should be able to select qtiplayr as  
>> an activity to add... The options for setting the activity are  
>> fairly self-explanatory :)
>> Let me know if you try this and run into any problems.
>> -Jon
>