Our Solution: Create "hotspot" computer labs in different schools and have a mirror of our moodle server installed locally at the school, and serve moodle over the LAN.
This is fine and dandy for delivering the content, but not when you want too create a single community of students who are able to assit each other via forums/workshops etc. even though they are using different hotspot's.
I have tried to use the backup/restore features to amalgamate different instances of the courses into our main Moodle server (one that serves the content to the Internet) but end up with duplicated instances of the activities and resources in the courses, instead of adding (for instance) adding forum posts by students from "hotspot A" to the same forum in the main server (without duplicating the forum)
(I hope this explanation is clear
My Question:Is there a way to create backups of these offsite moodle servers and incorporate those into the main server at regular intervals?
Basically we do not want to backup the resources or activities but rather the student's use of those resources and activities and then restore those into the main server.
This would allow Moodle to be used in a offline manner and still allow the community of students to work together.
Riaan
(whish I was a php guru ... then I would have been able to offer more solutions than problems ... seems like I just ask for more and more things without contributing back