David Scotson

I think our University is an ALT member, but I still couldn't find anything online. My colleague's hard-copy version of the newsletter turned up so I don't need a paper copy but I'd be interested in the unedited text if you don't mind sharing.

I'm interested in anything that shows people thinking outside the box and really taking advantage of Moodle's open source nature, rather than viewing it as simply a (cheaper, better) replacement for the proprietary VLEs that are hobbling their own potential with licensing restrictions and lock-ins.

In particular, the idea of 'virtual open days' to allow future students to get some idea of the university experience is something we may be emulating.

(Could you do this with WebCT/Blackboard without checking your licence terms and/or using up vital 'seats'? I don't know but just the uncertainty is probably enough to kill most interesting innovations before they even get started)

I'm not sure if you noticed, but this thread is from last february (2004) so the participants may not all still be members of this forum.

Sorry if you knew this but I made this mistake myself just the other week after searching the forum for a topic I wanted to discuss and finding relevant postings from almost exactly a year previously.

I hadn't seen that post, it sounds like an excellent idea. Unfortunately my wedding and honeymoon falls exactly in the middle of the reading group schedule so I'll be unable to fully participate. Hopefully it won't be a one-off occurence and I'll have the time to contribute to the next chosen book.

There was some talk of adopting an external library to generate the form HTML. Did/will this happen for 1.5?

Depending on which dictionary you trust, both spellings are apparently acceptable in US English, though the double 'l' is more common and should probably be adopted for the en_US language pack (if it isn't already).

http://www.answers.com/enrolment&r=67