Martin Dougiamas

OK, thanks for providing some real data about the site.

The problem is that you have these two addresses defined for the same site, and www.cool-mac-mini.home one is the DEFAULT.

When a browser goes to http://clubhouse.coolgames.net:8080/moodle your apache web server is redirecting the user to the DEFAULT http://www.cool-mac-mini.home/moodle/ address (which doesn't work for anyone else but you).

You need to change your web server (is it Apache?) to make clubhouse.coolgames.net:8080 the default address. How you do this will depend on how your server is set up, but usually there is a httpd.conf somewhere that you can edit (use Spotlight to search for it).

Look for:

ServerName something:80

in the upper part of that file, and change it to:

ServerName clubhouse.coolgames.net:8080

and then restart everything.

By fixing this you will not only fix this problem but also a lot of other future problems you might have with other web applications.

Does that help?

http://macsystem.local/moodle is not a real address ... it's a local address your Mac is creating for you on your own machine. No-one from outside your machine will see that name or can find your machine from that name.

You need to give your machine a fixed IP and set up a DNS name to point to that IP number so that anyone on the internet can reach your machine.

I don't think it's correct to suggest that "we" (developers and teachers) don't listen to students already! Of course we do. I hope *most* of us do! They aren't some alien species, they are people like us participating with most of us every day.

I think in general most teachers are active researchers in their own practice, and notice problems/issues students have, whether it be via various web sites or other venues (I like ). Among Moodlers, at least some of these eventually end up in the forums here or in the tracker and result in improvements to Moodle. That is a major function of the user community.

As I said above, there is always room for more formal research into student attitudes about online learning. This is EXACTLY what the survey module (built into Moodle since 1.0) is all about. Try it out! There are three great surveys that will give you a lot of information from which you can derive great questions (and thus learn more about attitudes in your very own unique class).

I find that much of the time the changes you need to make are not about the LMS or Moodle specifically, but in the teaching style or processes.

Can you please maintain the most recent version in the Moodle contrib CVS?

http://moodle.cvs.sourceforge.net/moodle/contrib/plugins/mod/wiki/

That's the code I've been reviewing.

Moodle ALWAYS uses absolute links because the texts end up in all sorts of different contexts (eg email, rss etc).

You can do a search/replace on your database if you change the location. There is a script in your moodle at /admin/replace.php that does this.