AJAX Marking Block

Hi all. Just an update about 2.4: I am really short on time right now due to being involved in founding a startup company, but have spent the last weekend sorting this out and have done around half of the work needed. The JavaScript is operational now, which was the larger part of the code that needed refactoring, so now I need to sort out the assignment plugin so it works, and do some thorough testing. At least another week to 10 days, but by then there will at least be a beta version to use, even if it still has a few bugs.

Is it already known when Ajax marking block will be released for Moodle 2.4?

Hope the next version will be available for Moodle 2.4, after migration the blocks seams not to be running

I am using the 2.2b7 version of this plugin on a Moodle 2.2 installation. It works great except when I try to view the turned in assignments by groups. I goes into an infinite search and gives me the error message "An error has occurred contact your administrator." Any thoughts or comments on how I can fix this problem?

Hi Matt,
The AJAX marking plugin does not have the English language strings available for translation at AMOS. I contacted David Mudrak for help and this is what he found:
"I looked at the plugins code and this is what caught my eyes:
* https://github.com/mattgibson/moodle-block_ajax_marking/blob/MOODLE_23_STABLE/lang/en/block_ajax_marking.php#L53 - invalid concatenation of strings using the dot operator
I will appreciate if you pass this information to the maintainers of the first two blocks and ask them to release a fix version of their plugin. Thanks for your help!"
I hope that info can point you in the right direction to fix the English language strings of this plugin.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi,
I wanted to translate the AJAX marking block using the Moodle AMOS service (http://lang.moodle.org/), but the English language strings are not available for translation.
Could you please read http://lang.moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=2485
Thanks in advance for your help

Hi Matt,
running vers 2.3.2 and have latest vers of block installed. Users get an error when trying to grade assignments (older versions). Here is the error from apache log. Any ideas?
thx-matt
Apache error log
Call to undefined function get_grading_manager() in /var/www/html/students/blocks/ajax_marking/modules/assignment/block_ajax_marking_assignment.class.php on line 235, referer:

@Dorothy - Working on a fix for the Postgresql/Oracle issue, which I think is the same thing.
@Mat - Which module is not saving? Assignment? New assignment? Are you using rubrics or ordinary grading?

Hey mate,
Loving the block, had no issues installing it what so ever (Moodle 2.3.2) but have found recently that when the teachers go into mark something, it's not saving. They go back again later and it's unmarked. Ideas? What am I doing wrong or what have I missed?
Thanks in advance

I have ver 2.3.2 installed on my local machine for testing and on a server for development. The server runs with Postgres 9.1 while the local system utilizes MySQL. The Marking module is throwing a sql error in the Postgres environment. It occurs when the instructor attempts to access the assignment for marking.
'Error reading from database' Debug info 'ERROR: syntax error at or near "." LINE 1: SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE countwrapperquery.id AS courseid, ^ SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE countwrapperquery.id AS courseid, ..........'
Does anyone else have this issue and is there a solution?
Thanks

@Steve That's a bit odd. Not sure why that would happen as no one else has reported a problem so far.
Basic things to try: Go to notifications screen to make sure the upgrade process triggers; check permissions on the uploaded files (change to 777 temporarily, then visit notifications screen just to make sure); make sure files are in the right folder, with the correct name (blocks/ajax_marking/db, not blocks ajax_marking/ajax_marking/db for example); make sure you have uploaded to the correct Moodle install in case you have more than one on the server (I have actually done this more than once and spent hours wondering why it didn't work).
You can also try setting debugging to developer level and looking in the error log.
I'll try to install on a clean 2.3.1 to make sure it works.

Matt,
I installed version 2.3 in my Moodle installation version 2.3.1. I uploaded the ajax_marking folder to my blocks folder on the server but I'm getting no notification that the block was installed. All looks well on the server, all 16 files are installed. Any ideas? Other plugin's have installed fine for me. Thanks for any help you can offer.

@Paul I'm planning to add that as soon as time allows, but currently working on a new startup company, so time is tight. Will aim to set a couple of evenings aside in the next few weeks and see what I can do.

@Matt Not sure I follow. If the student submission date is later than when the grade was assigned, then the item ought to show up regardless of the grade to pass setting with the current code. If that's not happening, then there's a bug so please open an issue in the tracker with info on version of Moodle and block and I'll get onto it.

Replying to myself here. I just learned about the "grade to pass" setting when editing a grade item. Is there any way marking block could make use of this? For example, if the grade is not passing and the student submission date is greater than the date the grade was assigned, then it continues to show up in marking block.