Posts made by Martin Dougiamas

Moodle in English -> Authentication -> Moodle integrated into a High School Intranet -> Re: Moodle integrated into a High School Intranet

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Alan,

Thank you very much for that - it's terrific for me to hear stories of Moodle being used out there.  Particularly such positive ones!  smiley.gif

PHP programming can be great fun as you sometimes get a lot of effect for a little effort (then again sometimes you get little effect for a lot of effort) ... sounds like you have some budding hackers there approve.gif  (not crackers, hopefully).  evil.gif

I'm very interested to hear more about how you have used the journals ... did you use few or many?  When I designed it I was planning for each journal entry to be quite short, and that teachers would set up one or two journal activities in every week.  Since then I've found many people are using only one or two of them in a whole course, and encouraging repeat visits so that they build up one big entry over a long time.  As a result I'm thinking of new ideas for the journal to make it more dialogical, like a private forum between student and teacher.  thoughtful.gif

Glad you like the quiz module ... it was my most frequent request and I put a lot of work into it.  Since it's now released mostly all I've heard is requests for new things instead.  mixed.gif smiley.gif

One more thing - are you using the LDAP authentication?

Cheers,
Martin

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Moodle in English -> General plugins -> Some collaboration proposals -> Re: A chat module

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Where should I start! surprise

They seem to be heavily revising their code right now (it's all in English BTW), so it might pay to wait a little so that you have a higher quality base to work from. It's up to you.

Either way, you would need to get it running first, and then start stripping away all the authentication stuff (so we can use Moodle authentication instead), then get rid of all banning and other fancy chat features that are only really needed in big public chat rooms (ie not educational settings).

Then you'd have to look at my empty Moodle module (see the zip file in the mod directory) and make it into a new chat module that does nothing (very easy, instructions included).

Then you'd have to fit the phpopenchat code into the empty module and add cool stuff like using Moodle user pictures etc

I reckon it would take me a full week to do but it's time I don't have right now.

Cheers,
Martin
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Moodle in English -> Themes -> creating image based themes -> Re: creating image based themes

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Thanks for posting, but that's not the best way to do it!

No need to put image.gif in every folder, and no need to create a new THEME variable!

Just put the image in your theme folder, then alter header.html as follows:

<BODY <? if ($focus) {echo "setfocus()"; } echo " background="$CFG->wwwroot/theme/mytheme/background.gif" bgProperties=fixed>"; ?>
Also, I'd recommend not altering the standard theme, but copying the "standard" directory to a new directory with your own name (eg mytheme), then editing that.

This will all be even easier in 1.0.7 when full CSS support is added.

Cheers,
Martin
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Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> problems installing on RedHat 8.0 -> Re: problems installing on RedHat 8.0

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Making that change would require making hundreds of edits. I may do it someday. In the meantime all you need to do is to create a small text file called .htaccess in the root folder of Moodle that contains this:

php_value short_open_tag 1
... and your problem is solved! (Also see the file lib/htaccess in the Moodle distribution)
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