Teachers were typing patterns like
********************************<em>****************************</em>
which translates into a pattern like .*.*.*.*, which is very inefficient
to try to match, althought it is equivalent ot a single .*. At a certain
point preg was just giving up.
Since people actually do this, we should simplify the regex by treating
runs of * like a single *.
Plain responses, without files, were getting messed up by the
fix for MDL-39980. Something that looked like an HTML comment was being
appended.
This fix works by avoiding appending anything if there are no files. The
new unit test (which was failing before I fixed the code) confirms that
this works. The other tests should be enough to verify that there are no
regressions.
The problem was with the alignment of:
* tables inside the choices.
* Lists inside the choices.
* The specific feedback, when it spanned mulitple lines.
The problem was introduced by MDL-39420.
Certainty -1 has never been used in standard Moodle, but is
used in Tony-Gardiner Medwin's patches to mean 'No idea' which
we intend to implement: MDL-42077. In the mean time, these changes
avoid errors for people who have used TGM's patches.
We now compute the average CBM score, accuracy, CBM bonus and enhanced
accuracy, both for the entire quiz, and for just the questions answered.
Note that these calculations must work correctly in the presence of
descriptions, ungraded questions, and manually graded questions. For
example, imagine a essay added at the end of the quiz "Summarise what
you learned attempting this exercise." This might have max mark zero or
non-zero. The CBM statistics just ignores questions like that.
We now change so that minfraction is -6 and maxfraction is 3, so getting
the question right a low certainty gives maxmark marks, and you get a
bonus for being more confident (rather than being penalised for being
unconfident). Mathematically it is the same, but the difference is
importnat psychologically.
We also change how partially correct scores are handled.
It is too harsh to penalise a partially correct score with full
certainty by doing a linear interpolation between -6 and +3. Instead,
any partially correct score (e.g. 0.5) becomes that fraction of the
correct score (e.g. 0.5 * 3 = 1.5). Also, any incorrect score is treated
as 0, so if you have a multiple choice question that normally gives a
negative score for a wrong choice, this will now never give a score of
less than -6.
Finally we change how this is displayed to students beside the question.
Rather than saying "Marked out of 1.00", we say "Base mark 1.00", and
then later we say "CBM mark 3.00" (or whatever it is).
