Judy Hsu

Hi all, we are currently using 1.5.2+ code base and regularly we need to backup 10000+ course (most of them are empty courses but we can't delete them) on weekly basis. The 1.5.2 backup code does not work very well. Although the backup process seems to be going through each course OK, but it would take a long time (sometimes days) to just backup all courses, and sometimes some of the courses could not even be restored correctly. I'm just curious whether in 1.5.4 or 1.6 beta there is any significant code changes for the backup / restore module, that might improve the performance?? Please let me know, thanks a lot!!

Hi all, sorry for a newbie question, I noticed that on moodle.org forums, usually there is a orange color small button "RSS" on the upper-right corner of the browser, but when I click on it, it will display whole bunch of XML codes like...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

.....

How do I setup this RSS feed (on both IE and Firefox) so that I could get notified when there is a new post to some moodle forums?? Any pointer or tip would be highly appreciated. thanks!

Hi all, I don't know if you noticed this or not, but sometimes when I click on the personal profile in moodle.org and then click on "Forum posts", sometimes it will show "No posts" which is kind of weird (as I'm sure that I have posted quite a few topics in moodle.org forums). Is this a known bug and already have an entry in the Moodle bug tracker? What is the issue that caused the problem? Many thanks!

Hi all:

Thanks for reading this question. We currently have 600+ students in our database and for the new semester, we would like to delete most of them, however, it seems that the admin/user.php only provide deleting user accounts "one by one".. my questions are:

1. Is there any better way to delete 500 students quickly? I have tried to look at the table mdl_user_students, but still miss the idea how to delete these students directly from the database level. How do I come up with a database query (say, limit to students who haven't accessed the site for more than 2 months now and delete these students)?

2. For 1.5.3, it seems that when you assign someone as an instructor, then he/she will have fully access to the student database, if we don't want "some" instructors to be able to access this data (or hide the students' name or email addresses), is it possible to do that?? 

Thanks a bunch! 

Hi all, we are running 1.5.2 and I'm not sure whether this has been entered into the moodle bug tracker database or this feature has already been implemented in the 1.6 beta. Is it possible to allow instructors to grade students' uploaded assignments, save it (for further comments) without actually giving a grade, and the moodle site won't send out an automated email to the student saying instructor's comments are ready? For classes which instructor might have 100+ students, this is very helpful as this would allow the instructor to comment on the assignments when he/she has time (without actually giving a grade), the finally give out the grade for all the students (and completed comments) and then inform students that the assignment grade/comments are ready...  Just curious if this is possible now, or is it on the to-do list of moodle? Thanks!