Posts made by Martin Dougiamas

Moodle in English -> General developer forum -> the curiously strong allow - a roles/overrides use case -> Re: the curiously strong allow - a roles/overrides use case

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Bugger, I forgot that change in 1.9! I don't think rewriting that bit is really an option at this point unless someone suddenly has a massive performance-retaining brainwave.

But you do have some other easy options:
  1. You can assign roles to people directly in the block or course, or
  2. If it's a custom block, you can create a new capability just for that block (in blocks/myblock/db/access.php), and set that capability to ALLOW for your staff role. The block code needs to obviously check for the capability before displaying anything.

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Moodle in English -> Roles and permissions -> Clarifying the roles interface

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Matt Gibson had a nice idea in MDL-12120 about moving the roles tabs. I've implemented this locally (haven't checked it in to 1.9 yet) and also renamed the tabs to make them more user-friendly, hopefully.



(more screenshots at MDL-12120)

Comments? Is everyone happier with that? Any further improvements you can think of there?
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Moodle in English -> Gradebook -> Exporting Moodle Grades to Gradequick? -> Re: Exporting Moodle Grades to Gradequick?

by Martin Dougiamas -
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The Gradebook in Moodle 1.9 is specifically designed for this sort of thing, no question about it.

We now support export plugins that can do just about anything.

So if someone can specify exactly what is needed, then just about any developer can write a little plugin to pump grades from Moodle to Gradequick automatically (or even the other way if you're inclined).

Moodle in English -> Workshop -> the new workshop module -> Re: integration process of our peer module

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Can you please keep the discussions here as much as possible? That way more people will be have the possibility of finding it.

As a first step towards any possible use of this mdule by the Moodle community - can you please make the code available for review? I am happy to set you up with CVS access to cvs:/contrib to work on it in there.

You really need to have some heavy review of the code itself before starting to add advanced features, otherwise you could possibly produce something impossible to maintain (and thus basically useless).

Some useful documents (which I hope Peter pointed you to before starting on this project) are here:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Developer_documentation

In particular see:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Overview#Major_Development
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