Itamar Tzadok

Put the greeting in seciton 0? (This at least is how it used to work. Section 0 is static and visible on every page when not empty).

Why don't you use $fs->get_area_files? From within your module you should have the contextid, component, filearea (and itemid if needed). You get all the files in that area, find the none-directory one you need by name and get its content by get_content.

It seems there is still such a bug in 2.2.4 with file manager. MDL-35059

Not sure that that was in your query but you can have inner git directories. You clone a repo and move it inside a directory that is already a git repo (e.g. moodle) and in the parent directory go to .git/info/exclude and add that innder directory path. Then when you update the parent it will ignore the inner one. And you can go into the inner one and update it from its own master repo.

The teacher can control that from his/her profile by setting 'email digest type' to one of the dailies (complete or subjects) which will effectively reduce the number of emails to 1 per day. It could also be useful for the teacher to set the auto subscribe to forums to 'No'. hth