Martin Dougiamas

That's just the maximum upload file size (it's a PHP setting). The images then get resized on the server and generally end up under 10k.

The WYSIWYG editor only works on Internet Explorer 5.5 and later, and only if the admin has turned it on (Configure Variables page) and the user has turned it on (user profile page).

I recommend the little yellow help buttons.

Yes, you're right.

Hmmm, but since the variables and the Moodle functions are now in the global namespace anyway, there hardly seems much point in creating an extra class at all (except as a documentation device). ie if the application you're including from has a function with the same name as a Moodle function there will still be a conflict (function already defined).

I've made some changes to setup.php and makeclass.php in CVS to work around this ... can you give it a go?

By the way, I just implemented the storing of locale codes in the language packs. If you try changing your language on this site (as a user) you should see all the dates change too. This will be in the next release (very soon).

You may be interested in the IMS standards which include some work on competencies and storing learner information based on tracking.

http://www.imsproject.org/

Eventually, if/when IMS becomes more widespread, I'll be interested in integrating some of their standards into Moodle if only to gain a level of interoperability with other systems. A side effect might be more support for teachers to offer different teaching with different students, but we'll see how it goes, I suppose.

Implementing things as you've described it sounds like a very big task. How will it determine student progress? How does it organise custom quizzes in a fair way? One simpler solution to go some way towards what I think you're saying might be to use "locked" quizzes. That is, you can't do quiz 2 until you've done quiz 1, and you can't do quiz 3 until you've done quiz 2.

From my point of view, a student who "passes" a quiz has not necessarily learned anything useful. Short-term memory is a wonderful thing.

This is just to let you know about a mailing list for announcements about approaching Moodle releases and any other timely issues that might affect translators.

It's very low bandwidth, just occasional notices, since discussion should all be in this forum.

If you want to, you can subscribe/unsubscribe etc here: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moodle-lang

Cheers!
Martin