Hi
I think I found a problem. I run various test quizes and in most I could
download the uploaded essay answers. However there is a quiz in which
the questions are randomly ordered, and of various sorts.

In this case your plugin claims that there are no essay question
although in fact there are.

1. I installed moodle 3.5 in my linux laptop,

2. I created a new course

3. I imported a question bank

4. I created an exam I described above

5. I performed a backup of that course

I took the liberty to add this backup, so maybe you could import it into
your local moodle installation and tell me where the problem is and how
to avoid it. Unfortunately the exam I created is a realistic one, we
have to mix randomly all sort of questions and maybe your plugin cannot
deal with it, yet.

Thank you very much indeed

Hi there,

would it be possible to outsource all of the lang strings in the preferences form (e.g. 'Set folder hierarchy') to the language file? We attempted to translate them but weren't able to access them via the moodle language pack.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,
will this plugin support Moodle 4.1?

According to the example at https://moodle.org/plugins/quiz_downloadsubmissions, the students' folders are named "Username - Firstname Surname", e.g. "anisha - Anisha Patki".

We would like to be able to have the folders named as "Surname Firstname Username" instead. Would it be possible to add an option for that?

Replication steps:

1. Set up a quiz.
2. Add an essay question with default settings (no attachments).
3. Log in as a student and attempt the quiz essay.
4. Log in as the teacher and go to the download essay submissions page. Click the button to download the essays.
5. Observe an error about $OUTPUT not being defined. Other problems exist after defining $OUTPUT.

Steps to replicate:

1. In a course, access the question bank and create a new category called 'Random essay questions'
2. Create 2 essay questions within this category, ensuring 'allow attachments' is set to 'yes'
3. Create a quiz activity
4. Add a random question to the quiz and select the 'Random essay questions' category
5. Log in as a student and complete the quiz, uploading at least one file to the essay
6. Log back in as admin and go to the quiz 'view submissions' screen and then Quiz administration>Results>Download and click 'Download essay submissions'

Observed: A 'Quiz does not contain any essay questions' error appears
Expected: Essay attachments should be downloaded

Note: This only occurs when a question is added randomly and is an essay question. Does not affect manually added essay questions.

We are trying to download the submitted files with 186 and 191 attempts, resulting in 670MB and 580MB files.
The download starts and all seems fine until the download randomly aborts at around 410-460MB for the 670MB file and around 350MB for the 580MB file, resulting in an error "Error - no file".

We have tried with multiple different quizzes all resulting in the same error.

I have downloaded version: quiz_downloadsubmissions_moodle39_2020100700 and copied the downloadsubmissions directory and all its contents to the .../mod/quiz/report directory in our Moodle installation.
After installation it looks like in the image:

And in the results section of the Quiz menu it looks like this:

As can be seen in this commit in @lucaboesch's fork, currently file responses to essay questions are not downloaded. (His commit also includes the fix to #2.)

This (and #2) blocks adoption at our university.

if the question of type "essay" is random on the quiz its qtype is "random" but the plugin only check for "essay" qtype.
I mean, if I have a quiz and I have just a random question, even if it is from a pool of "essay" questions, the plugin will say there is no question available, so that check would have to consider random qtype too

After manually grading the downloaded files, it would be useful if this plugin provided a way to get all of the grades and comments bulk-imported again.

This was suggested in the corresponding Moodle tracker entry.

Hi team,

I've gone ahead and added my forked code base with some basic optimizations changes here: https://github.com/francoisdtOC/moodle-quiz_downloadsubmissions/tree/Version-1.1-r2-optimized

We've noticed that the majority of the processing time is spent on creating copies of the user files for compression, so for now we have gone ahead and tried optimizing the rest of the code base.