Itamar Tzadok

I guess the main advantage of a database is that it allows for customized items. Currently I use databases as libraries or repositories of events (workshops) and reports in a site serving a group of teaching development graduate assistants. I use RSS to display or highlight selected information on the main page (that requires some javascript).

I will try something more pedagogical next year if I manage to get some relevant people to be somewhat experimental and implement some changes to the traditional assessment scheme.

Students should be able to comment on entries if the Allow comments on entries: option in the glossary settings is set to Yes.

Added: Of course, this offers a style of responding to each other which resembles the one used in developers and other professional bulletin boards.

How about using a database?

Yes, I now realize that it shows the version in this way in Firefox but not in IE. Unfortunately I don't know of any elegant way to track the version number. But you can right click on the page and select view source and search for <div class="sitelink">. Next to that tag you should see something like
<a title="moodle 1.6.3 (2006050530)" href="http://moodle.org/" target="_blank"> (the moodle version may of course be different).

The feedback not being displayed may be just a bug or perhaps a feature of a more advanced version than what I have. In any case in my version the feedback area is just below my comments to the student's answer.



That feedback is what I enter in the feedback box in the question edit window:

Hi,

I'm working on 1.6.3 and it does show the feedback when marking questions manually in "grade all" view. Just a thought, have you tried marking one question and reopening the page? I know it sounds crazy but who knows it might work.

The Moodle version can be found in the tooltip (mouseover) of the moodle icon at the bottom of the Moodle homepage (see below the location of the icon).