Martin Dougiamas

No no, I'm not the one in green! 

I gave a talk at my old high school this morning - what an amazing flashback that was - the place had hardly changed a bit in 20 years. Even one of my old teachers was still there!

And all those interested young faces - very heartening. On another level, it was good to visit an environment similar to that which so many of you work in every day - I don't get out to high schools much!

Just FYI, this filter has been revised in Moodle 1.5 ... it now just blacks out words using styles. eg Hitchcock. Notice that you can still see the words if you really want to by selecting the text with your mouse.

The list of words has also been lengthened, and is stored in the language pack so you can edit it in a custom language pack. Spaces are trimmed off so Wild Girl's suggestion will not work anymore, but you could always keep and extend the old filter from 1.4 if you really want.

The whole thing is a bit of a losing game with determined swearers since they could write c0ck, c()ck, (ock, c o c k, etc. And then of course you have different contexts for words ...

I think the recent activity tab I talked about is going to have sorting options on it as user preferences.

There's been no changes there in a long time ... 48 hours is a maximum, as I recall, otherwise, yes, it does use last login (try logging out and getting back in)