{"id":3546,"date":"2017-01-23T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T12:52:26","slug":"kwiziq-scores-bug-new-scoring-system-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/kwiziq-scores-bug-new-scoring-system-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwiziq Scores bug and the new scoring system coming soon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Scores bug 11th &#8211; 18th January<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3547\" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2017\/01\/kwizbot-oops-sorry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"160\" \/><br \/>\nOn Wednesday 18th, we spotted some strange data patterns with user scores\u00a0(and a few users also wrote in). After a lengthy\u00a0investigation, we discovered that a pesky gremlin had somehow crept into Kwiziq&#8217;s super brain at some point between 5am and 6am UK time on Wednesday 11th. In fact, the bug had been happening on a much less serious basis for a lot longer. Unfortunately, it was extremely hard to spot because it wasn&#8217;t repeatable and only happened sporadically until the last week. (Nerdy details*)<\/p>\n<p>The good news is, we&#8217;ve not only fixed the bug, but programmed KwizBot to go back and regenerate all the <strong>scores<\/strong>, <strong>improvement\u00a0timelines<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"\/faq\/brainmaps\">Brainmaps<\/a><\/strong> for all affected users. He spent the weekend\u00a0regenerating and generally healing himself, and\u00a0his understanding of your\u00a0French grammar proficiency is all top-notch again.<\/p>\n<p>If you joined Kwiziq between the 11th and the 18th January &#8211; or took kwizzes that week &#8211; then you&#8217;ll have almost certainly been affected by KwizBot&#8217;s temporary glitch.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s very sorry and promises not to do it again.<\/p>\n<h2>Kwiziq Scores version 4.0 coming soon!<\/h2>\n<p>As some of you keen kwizzers know, there&#8217;s been a new update to KwizBot&#8217;s <a href=\"\/help\/kwiziq-scores\">scoring system<\/a> in development for some time.\u00a0This was supposed to go out before Christmas but sadly had to be postponed.\u00a0It&#8217;s very close to being finished and KwizBot will be getting another brain upgrade hopefully within in the next week or so.<\/p>\n<p>The new scoring system\u00a0fixes\u00a0a problem which\u00a0prevents students from scoring 100% in some topics and will make going for your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwiziq.com\/kwiziq-achievements\"><strong>gold shields and foundation trophies<\/strong><\/a> for levels\u00a0(and the much sought after <strong><a href=\"\/kudos-points\">Kwiziq kudos points<\/a><\/strong>) somewhat easier as a result.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n<p>Gruff<\/p>\n<p><em>* It was caused by an unexpected edge-case where two of our servers&#8217; internal clocks\u00a0drifted out of sync during high CPU load which had the knock-on effect of causing our some data denormalisation triggers to lose visibility on the most recent kwiz data in an unpredictable and non-deterministic way because of a race condition which was never supposed to happen. 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