Martin Dougiamas

Hi, Don.

No, OS X doesn't have wget by default, but it does have curl. So, assuming Moodle is installed on the Mac where sendmail is working, try this command in your crontab (on any of your Macs):

/usr/bin/curl -s -o /dev/null http://yourserver.com/moodle/admin/cron.php

I think sendmail needs some setting up to make it work, yes.

As for Unicode - you can edit the desired language pack and change the string "thischarset" in moodle.php to be "utf-8", which will render each page using Unicode. If the browser supports it then your students should be able to type all those languages into the text boxes.

Cheers,
Martin

Looks excellent! Well done!

Yes, send the files when you like, and I'll merge them into the CVS tree for the next release.

Hi, Eloy.

By dimmed, I was only thinking of a different color:

This is an active link
This link is deactivated
This is another active link


... to make it really clear for teachers to quickly see what is deactivated. You could simply assign a new CSS style to the deactivated ones and that style could just define a different background colour, or something, while keeping the link working for teachers. What do you think?

Good work so far, anyway! I think a lot of people will be happy to see it!

OK, Tom, this phrase of yours hit me:

"but even the act of making us isolate, or target, or identify rubric criteria for a student discussion will likely make us more thoughtful about what we want our students to focus on in a certain assignment."

... and also helps me read Przemyslaw's comment slightly differently than I did the first time round.

Yes, you're right, the act of choosing an appropriate rating scale is itself a reflective, useful activity. One that I was selfishly keeping to myself, maybe.

Perhaps, when setting up a forum there should be a choice of one or more well-documented example scales (such as connected/separate), plus the ability to enter your own alternative custom scale. Hmm, in my mind's eye that is looking quite good.

Tom (and Przemyslaw), can you think of some more examples of scales you might use in particular forums?

I still want to hear from anyone who's tried to use the connected/separate scale.

I think the first step might be the problem. When you see the script in the browser, choose File->Save As... and save it directly as a file called index.php

For the format of the file, choose "Text file" (not HTML or Web page, which will add unhelpful cruft to the page). Then FTP it up to your site and try again.