Glenys Hanson

Hi Liz,

This discussion should help (Google found it for me ): How do you delete or remove a file in the repository?

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Tim,

Can you help me along a bit further in my understanding of how the new system works?

In the disscussion on Using Moodle: Re: Workflow with Filepicker: developer question you made me see that: "Files are attached to (owned by) particular resources or activities."

This means that if a particular resource or activity is moved to another course (by save & restore, by import...) all its files move with it, doesn't it?

So if I create (or with a group of colleagues create) a Book (or Wiki, Database, Glossary...) and use the file picker to add files to it I can then move that Book to another course, even on a different server and all the files will come with it including images, mp3's, videos, PDFs, etc. If so, this is going to save me a lot of time: the time I spend redoing links on 1.9 when I move a resource or an activity to a new course. (I've never worked out why most of them continue to work but some don't.)

Unless I've missed something, this also seems simpler than the 1.9 system where I first have to upload a file to the Course Files area, and then from the Course Files into the Activity or Resource. In Moodle 2 there's just one step: directly from my hard disk (or somewhere on the Internet) into the Activity or Resource.

When I first learnt to use Moodle, I remember being irritated by having to use the Course Files as a halfway house. I've got used to it but I could get unused to it fast.

I don't really understand why so many people are so attached to the Course Files area - it's not an end in itself, is it? Even for teachers who only want somewhere to upload pdf, doc, excel, zip... files for their students to download, they can just as easily do so by uploading them directly as attachments to a Glossary. I've just tested in a hidden Glossary, abusing of my facilitator's role in the Lang Teaching course. But maybe I'm missing something as there's so much fuss about this lack of Course Files.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Fleur,

As no one is replying to you, I'll try but I'm not a coder or anything (just another autodidact ) and I've only done this with Moodle 1.9, not Moodle 2 so I don't guarantee results.

I believe your non-standard modules/plugins/blocks should be (temporarily) uninstalled before doing the mySQL dump - I've read they can cause problems.

I think all you need to do is three things :

• export a mySQL dump of your online site (I use phpMyAdmin to do this - it's really quite simple: see attached tutorial)
• import the mySQL dump into your local site (again with phpMyAdmin) into your fresh Moodle install
• create a config.php file with the correct "paths"

You can see what my config.php file looks like on my Windows 7. I've put in green the bits you may need to change.

<?php  /// Moodle Configuration File

unset($CFG);

$CFG->dbtype    = 'mysql';
$CFG->dbhost    = 'localhost';
$CFG->dbname    = 'moodle';
$CFG->dbuser    = 'moodle';
$CFG->dbpass    = 'moodle';
$CFG->dbpersist =  false;
$CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_';

$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://localhost/moodle';
$CFG->dirroot   = 'C:\xampp\htdocs\moodle';
$CFG->dataroot  = 'C:\xampp\data\moodledata';
$CFG->admin     = 'admin';

$CFG->directorypermissions = 00777;  // try 02777 on a server in Safe Mode

require_once("$CFG->dirroot/lib/setup.php");
// MAKE SURE WHEN YOU EDIT THIS FILE THAT THERE ARE NO SPACES, BLANK LINES,
// RETURNS, OR ANYTHING ELSE AFTER THE TWO CHARACTERS ON THE NEXT LINE.
?>

Hope this helps,

Glenys

Hi Bogart,

Tim has already answered you. Haven't you followed his link to the http://docs.moodle.org/en/Language_editing?  It explains very clearly (with screenshots) what you have to do. It also provides links to Flash video tutorials if you prefer that.

Cheers,

Glenys

PS You do realise that an online "examination" on something like Moodle cannot really be as secure as a "paper and pen" one? This has been discussed many times on these forums.

Hi MB,

It isn't exactly what you're asking for, but there is something else you can do in 1.9 (and no doubt in 2 but I haven't tested):

• Grade the student's posts using the rating system.

Cheers,

Glenys