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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-38537

Quiz client-side auto-save

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Open
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 2.4.3, 3.4
    • None
    • Quiz
    • MOODLE_24_STABLE, MOODLE_34_STABLE

    Description

      MDL-38538 implemented server-side auto-save for the quiz. That is very good, but only while you have a working connection to the server.

      It might be possible to sue the DOM Storage API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Storage) to implement client-side auto-save in the quiz as well.

      We need new JavaScript code mod/quiz/yui/autosave/autosave.js, which notices any time the contents of any form field (or TinyMCE) inside the quiz responses form changes value, and then does a callback a few seconds later to save the values.

      Later, if the quiz page reloads, we check the DOM storage, and if there is data there different from the most recent value stored on the server, then we update the form fields with the saved data.

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          has a non-specific relationship to

          Sub-task - Issues are sometimes broken into multiple sub-tasks. MDL-38538 Quiz server-side autosave

          • Blocker - Blocks development and/or testing, prevents Moodle from running (applicable to bugs only)
          • Closed

          New Feature - A new Moodle feature which has yet to be developed. MDL-18014 Automatically and periodically save WYSIWYG editor content as a draft/concept

          • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
          • Closed
          has been marked as being related by

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-47688 Use ajax + client storage so that users can continue to work on their quiz even if they lose network connection

          • Critical - Crashes server, loss of data, severe memory leak
          • Open

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-42504 If the quiz auto-save detects that the connection to the server has been lost, we should warn students

          • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
          • Closed

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              timhunt Tim Hunt
              Tim Hunt, Ilya Tregubov, Kevin Percy, Mathew May, Mihail Geshoski, Shamim Rezaie
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