Judy Hsu

Dear all, just a quick question.

In Moodle 1.9.x or the new Moodle 2.0, is there a way to easily implement "online comic books", which is similar to something like this:

 http://www.imanhua.com/comic/12/list_51447.html?p=3

So basically we would like to upload a lot of JPEG or GIF images, and "link" them together with a simple UI like "Previous" "Next" buttons, and maybe a pull-down menu so that users could quickly jump to a particular page.  We don't want students to "download" something (e.g. PowerPoint .pps) first and then open it up. We want them to be able to directly open it up and read it (comics with JPEG images) "inside" of Moodle with some simple navigation.

I have read about the "Lesson module" documentation (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Lesson) but it doesn't seem to really fit with our needs. I haven't tried the "Workshop module" yet..

Thoughts, comments, or suggestions? Thanks in advance!!

Hi Anthony and others:

Just curious, how could I find out whether our moodle site is being black-listed by AOL right now, should we directly contact with AOL's system administrators? How to get in touch with them? Do they have a protocol or something to remove us from their blacklist?

We have a similar situation here in our college, I think it might be related to this discussion thread:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=108896

I guess a potential solution is to allow multiple email addresses to be associated with single user account:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=109235&parent=691672

I also noticed that on this Moodle Doc:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_FAQ, it mentioned that

"Why am I not getting any e-mails and others are?" ==> "Chances are your email address in your profile is either wrong or disabled. It could also be that you are not subscribed to the forums that are generating emails. AOL users may also not receive e-mails if the administrator has banned the use of AOL email addresses."

It's not clear to me about what "administrator" it is referring to. Is it referring to the domain controller for our college, or does it referring to the AOL system administrators? Or someone else? Eventually I hope that Moodle could implement some spam prevention mechanism, so that for cron job bulk email sending out (forum notification emails, etc.), it will be sending out with smaller quantity (instead of sending out everything at once, which I'm assuming that's the case now)... thoughts or comments?

Hi Jon and others, just found this thread and I have a follow-up question.

So from the code leve, how should I make changes so that the "default" setting from that pull-down menu would be set to "Yes, initially"??

I think I have identified the codes that deals with this, but I'm not that familiar with AddElement and formslib stuff, so if someone could help that would be great! Thanks!

Here is the codes that I found:

(from /mod/forum/mod_form.php at around link #41

        $options = array();
        $options[FORUM_TRACKING_OPTIONAL] = get_string('trackingoptional', 'forum');
        $options[FORUM_TRACKING_OFF] = get_string('trackingoff', 'forum');
        $options[FORUM_TRACKING_ON] = get_string('trackingon', 'forum');
        $mform->addElement('select', 'trackingtype', get_string('trackingtype', 'forum'), $options);
        $mform->setHelpButton('trackingtype', array('trackingtype', get_string('trackingtype', 'forum'), 'forum'));

Can I make changes here at this level, or do I need to go into the /mod/forum/lib.php to make changes in there? Thanks!

Dear all, I tried to search on docs.moodle.org and other places, but couldn't find the answer. In mdl_modules table, there are these columns:

I think I could figure out most of them, but how do "cron" and "search" work? It seems that the "lastcron" would record when the cron job was last run with UNIX timestamp, but how about "cron" and "search"? If it is 300 (for chat), does it mean that it would run every 300 ms? Also, does the "search" just serve as a flag? Many thanks! 

Judy

Dear all, as title, just wondering if I reset the the password from the database table level from a encrypted string to blank, such as:

UPDATE mdl_user SET password = '' where username = 'student';

What would be the new real password (for login purpose) then??

Thanks!