Howard Miller

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Search for max_execution_time. Is it what you are expecting?

"All our teachers have global rights". Except that evidence suggests that they don't.

So to be a little more forceful - please prove it (to yourself, as well as me)

my approach would be to identify a definite example. A user that wants to copy a course to a category that it does not allow them to select. Then I would 'login as' that user and check that they have the option to access that category and are given the option to create a new course. Go from there...

Ok - I missed that. I might have been clearer to say "I found the problem" or similar. It really is appreciated, as many people just vanish without tell us what the resolution was.

We certainly don't remove forum posts. There's no such thing as clutter. It very well might help somebody else.

You kind of ignored what I said.

Moodle is (sort of) working but the PHP install in your Docker instance is missing a vital extension. This is NOT a Moodle issue. What you do with the Moodle code won't make any difference.