It's down for me too. Since Eloy is away I've changed the DNS so that eu now points to the uk mirror. Try it again.
While on the topic, we need more mirrors. Lots of people volunteered at the time we started them but only two people actually set them up.
Martin Dougiamas
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Moodle in English -> General help -> Conditional activities: Activity Locking V 2.0 for 1.8.1 only -> Re: Conditional activities: Activity Locking V 2.0 for 1.8.1 only
by Martin Dougiamas -
Bernard, could you please remove some of the extra entries in the moodle modules database?
Instead of an entry for each version of this patch there should be one entry in there with links to all the different entries (perhaps just a link to that table in the docs, even).
Thanks for all your work on this, I know a lot of people find it useful.
Instead of an entry for each version of this patch there should be one entry in there with links to all the different entries (perhaps just a link to that table in the docs, even).
Thanks for all your work on this, I know a lot of people find it useful.
I'm currently writing some user docs (they will be here: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Outcomes)
Basically what we've implemented is to connect "outcome statements" with scales, and to connect those to courses and activities so that you can grade activities using the scale against that outcome statement.
So for example a (site-wide) outcome statement might be:
and the scale might be:
and you might connect this to the final assignment for your course (along with other outcomes) so that you can grade everyone's assignment using that scale.
The current outcomes report shows average results across the course, so that you can determine weak areas among your students, or see outcomes that you forgot to address in your course!
We also have the concept of a "passing grade" for each item (column) in the gradebook. So a passing grade could be set for each item, but all this currently does is color the grades differently in that column. It's not yet linked to any concept of "completion" (that comes in 2.0).
What I think you are talking about is the notion of competency, which says that "yes, user X has proven they are competent in outcome Y". This is not yet implemented, though with 1.9 we have all the tools to make that final leap.
Yes, this could be done in a new report but we probably need some other stuff. Teachers/Admins would need to find some way to define exactly how to aggregate the multiple outcomes (because an outcome could be attached to several activities that are perhaps spread across multiple courses) into a final result. We also need to decide exactly how to connect outcomes to users (is that list just the sum of the outcomes used in the courses you are already enrolled in or is it something else?)
I was hoping that once 1.9 is settled down that you (the community) will help us come up with those sorts of things.
Basically what we've implemented is to connect "outcome statements" with scales, and to connect those to courses and activities so that you can grade activities using the scale against that outcome statement.
So for example a (site-wide) outcome statement might be:
"is able to correctly reference sources found on the web"
and the scale might be:
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Usually, Always
and you might connect this to the final assignment for your course (along with other outcomes) so that you can grade everyone's assignment using that scale.
The current outcomes report shows average results across the course, so that you can determine weak areas among your students, or see outcomes that you forgot to address in your course!
We also have the concept of a "passing grade" for each item (column) in the gradebook. So a passing grade could be set for each item, but all this currently does is color the grades differently in that column. It's not yet linked to any concept of "completion" (that comes in 2.0).
What I think you are talking about is the notion of competency, which says that "yes, user X has proven they are competent in outcome Y". This is not yet implemented, though with 1.9 we have all the tools to make that final leap.
Yes, this could be done in a new report but we probably need some other stuff. Teachers/Admins would need to find some way to define exactly how to aggregate the multiple outcomes (because an outcome could be attached to several activities that are perhaps spread across multiple courses) into a final result. We also need to decide exactly how to connect outcomes to users (is that list just the sum of the outcomes used in the courses you are already enrolled in or is it something else?)
I was hoping that once 1.9 is settled down that you (the community) will help us come up with those sorts of things.
Moodle in English -> Testing and QA -> Moodle 1.9 Beta is available -> Re: Moodle 1.9 Beta is available
by Martin Dougiamas -
Keep trying - the Celeron sometimes struggles a little under the load of packaging hundreds of packages and uploading to thousands of downloaders.