Upgrade 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 and Journal module is still around

Upgrade 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 and Journal module is still around

by Christoph Saxe -
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I understood that the Journal module would go away unless I added the
$CFG->noconvertjournals = true;
line in config.php.  Perhaps I missunderstood?

I've double checked our config.php file, and no such property is defined. However, all the Journals in the old courses are still Journals, and Journals are still available in the "add activity dropdown" for both old and new courses.

What have I done wrong?  Can I fix this without re-upgrading (rather not have to, although we have only upgraded our test site so far)?

thanks
christoph
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Re: Upgrade 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 and Journal module is still around

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Yes, that's very odd.  I've upgraded lots of sites now along similar paths and Journals are being converted OK, so I'm not sure what could be happening there.
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Re: Upgrade 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 and Journal module is still around

by Christoph Saxe -
Thank you Martin, if you're curious to know more, please get in touch with me at christoph@drsaxe.com - I can provide more info or access if you want/are willing to poke around. 

christoph
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Re: Upgrade 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 and Journal module is still around

by Jacques Monnard -
Well, we just had the same problem : upgraded from 1.4.3 to 1.5.2 (not 1.5.2+) and journals were NOT converted. So unless I enable the "Journal" module in administration, they are not displayed in the courses. But then, teachers will still be able to create new journals, which we don't want.
Any way to manually convert journals to the equivalent type of assignment ?
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Re: Upgrade 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 and Journal module is still around

by Howard Miller -
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Yeh - me too, but I didn't think too much about it (yet). I know this doesn't help from a diagnostic point of view, but it does look like there might be an issue.
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Re: Upgrade 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 and Journal module is still around

by Howard Miller -
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Was there any progress on this issue? Did anybody work out what was going wron?

Thanks smile
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Re: Upgrade 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 and Journal module is still around

by Jeff Wood -
One staff member at my school had journal assignments from 1.4 and they were converted to an online text - assignment fine.

The "online text" assignment replaces the journal, correct?

Jeff
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Re: Upgrade 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 and Journal module is still around

by Paul Nijbakker -

Hi all,

Our journals did not update to assignments either, but we never saw it as a problem, we rather thought that schools were left the option to do away with the journals or not. We have quite a few teachers who like the journal more (in the study diary function) than the messenger tool or the on-line text assignment.

If I were a PHP wizz, I would write a contrib. module blending the diary functionality, easy overview and gradability of the journal tool and the dialogue tool together, replacing the latter two that still seem to have a following smile.

Rgrds,
Paul.

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