Dr S Bhatia

Guilty on count 2. ....mercy

point 1.

On the contrary, I believe that students can be let down as much by too low expectations as they can by too high expectations.  Many women have experienced the deadening effect of underestimation of potential IMHO - I know that I have.

AS one professor used to insist, if he did not understand our point then we must say- Sir, i failed to make myself clear.
So here i say that i failed to make my poitn clear.
You are correct that  students can be let down as much by too low expectation because once again, the same mechanism is in force that was working when the teacher trashes their assignment for being below par. The individual feels rejected and usually fails to understand that it is the single instance of bad assignment that was trashed, not him/her.

The teacher or anyone in authority has to walk a fine line. Too low expectations tend to say-''I have already written you off. You are no good''
High expectations and trashing says:'' you are below what is expected of you. You are no good''

In fact, in this view, having higher expectations is better than having low expectations.
But what i had meant was NOT to have expectations. Let them perform at their own level and gently goad them to next higher level from the one they are performing at now.

p.s. when i say 'you' occasionally, I don't mean Frances. I mean general community.

n.b. by calling my communication robust , i guess what you meant was  'not mincing words, bordering on rude'....didn't you? but whats the point of having conversations without passion   

regards and ciao

Which version are you using.

Anyway! I use 1.6.1 and know that lesson cannot be fully previewed as a teacher.
Have a dummy student. Logout as teacher. login as dummy student and then test it.

It's a bit annoying sometimes but what the heck. You get used to it.

Well

PDFs i cannot comment upon but for resources, it can be quite simple.
Instead of adding a webpage, you add a lesson. In the lesson, the first thing (and also the last) to add would be a branch table. Put all the things in the branch table description as you would have done in the webpage.
Don't use the branches and their jumps or write continue at the bottom and it'll take the person to end of the resource from where he can ''Go To:....'' any other desired activity.

You'll have to improvise a little bit.

Hi Dom

Since all the moodle gurus are helping you out of your lock-out, i shall not butt-in on that aspect. But elsewhere i read your post which says you downloaded your moodle version from some lycs site.
Joseph had promptly pointed out that it might be corrupt or older or any other problem.

It's useless asking why you did not download from moodle.org at this stage but i guess it'd be wise to let these gurus know the source from where your moodle installation files came from. May be they something about that particular option.

p.s. i have tested manhattan, castle, atutor, tcexam, moodle
Moodle is by far the stablest, most user friendly and has the GREATEST support fora. Your outburst anywhere else may not have been treated as kindly. Please appreciate that we all are here to use an open source programme and none is obliged to give you support.

N.B. Who is your hosting company anyway? (Don't answer this if you don't wish to) but if this turns out to be their fault, message me & i'll tell you about a very small company who host moodle very well for you. My own site is with them.

regards

You may be right Art.

The reason being we are all Good people by 'default settings'

however, the 'hacks' done by the various social, familial, pseudo-educational and authoritarian processes in our 'original release' ends up in such a way that these default settings are set to be 'overridden' by these hackings.

all that is needed is a 'fresh installation' or may be a 'bug tracker' (just like this forum)

and yes, total number would be high where you hail from but at least in my country, the percentage of such people would be low.
Most people wash away the grime on the conscience by donating money and used stuff to orphanage and their deed is done.
Regards