Recent CodeRunner enhancements

Recent CodeRunner enhancements

by Richard Lobb -
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I've just pushed CodeRunner v3.7.4+ to github and to the Moodle plug-in repository. Apart from various bug-fixes (see here) the most important recent changes are:

  1. A new gap filler UI, which allows teachers to provide students with a piece of code with a few gaps to fill in. The student is constrained to exactly the form of answer specified, which can be useful when teaching particular language constructs. For example (taken from the Gap-filler UI demo quiz on this site):
    gap-filler question
  2. The student attachment facility is now stable (despite still being labelled 'Experimental' in the authoring panel - I'll fix this in the next release). This lets question authors ask questions that require students to submit multiple files, e.g. a C makefile plus the source and header files that it uses to build an executable. This demo quiz shows some example questions that use this capability.
  3. The validate-on-save checkbox is now checked by default.