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Following similar moves in other European countries including France and Spain,
Greece to ban social media for under-15s from next year
Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Moodle in English -> General help -> Main differences between M405 and M513 -> Main differences between M405 and M513
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The above since you said, "it seems quite easy to install the older release on a Windows based system". Otherwise I often suggest MoodleBox. See Do not understand how to install Moodle 5.1.3.
Moodle in English -> General help -> Main differences between M405 and M513 -> Main differences between M405 and M513
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You compare Moodle 4.5 LTS and 5.1, I assume. MOODLE_405_STABLE is Moodle 4.5! See https://moodledev.io/general/releases.
I think, it is a sound idea to develop course content today in a 4.5 LTS local Moodle instance and transfer them to the future production Moodle, possibly 5.1. Note that transferring user data is the complicated one, without them, it is a matter of Course backup and Course restore - even across neighbouring versions.
One thing you need to pay attention is how to organize quizzes and quiz questions. The quiz system has been completely overhauled between 4.5 and 5.x. You can ask that specific question in the Quiz and question banks forum, if you make quiz questions in big scale.
Additional plugins are a complicating factor. You don't need any, I assume.
I think, it is a sound idea to develop course content today in a 4.5 LTS local Moodle instance and transfer them to the future production Moodle, possibly 5.1. Note that transferring user data is the complicated one, without them, it is a matter of Course backup and Course restore - even across neighbouring versions.
One thing you need to pay attention is how to organize quizzes and quiz questions. The quiz system has been completely overhauled between 4.5 and 5.x. You can ask that specific question in the Quiz and question banks forum, if you make quiz questions in big scale.
Additional plugins are a complicating factor. You don't need any, I assume.
Moodle in English -> Virtual Programming Lab (plugin) -> [VPL Question] How to hide the VPL activity behind the question when preparing an exam? -> [VPL Question] How to hide the VPL activity behind the question when preparing an exam? [SOLVED]
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Hi Astor
I didn't know that the VPL activity has a setting which "protects" it from the grade book. That is a good solution. Problem SOLVED.
I didn't know that the VPL activity has a setting which "protects" it from the grade book. That is a good solution. Problem SOLVED.
About the side note: Could you be more specific about the multiple usage of a VPL activity in VPL questions? I mean, does the VPL question offer so much variations so that different questions in the same quiz can be based on the same VPL activity? Or, do you mean to two questions in two quizzes can be based on the same VPL activity? This and the other question re-use are familiar to me. Although all our prod. sites are on Moodle 4.5 LTS, we've studied the new question sharing concept in Moodle 5.x and hoping to migrate some sites to Moodle 5.1 in the summer break. So during this transition period, should handle both versions.
Moodle in English -> General help -> How to clear the email queue? -> How to clear the email queue?
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There are two queues involved:
1. Moodle's own queue, if the mail sending server does not respond
2. Queue in the mail sending server it the recipient mail servers do not respond.
Your mails are in 1). If you operate a mail sending server, like a local postfix agent, then you can release 1) by making the local mail sending server to accept mail but not to send then. Instead purge the queue. In postfix 'postsuper -d ALL' (from memory).
1. Moodle's own queue, if the mail sending server does not respond
2. Queue in the mail sending server it the recipient mail servers do not respond.
Your mails are in 1). If you operate a mail sending server, like a local postfix agent, then you can release 1) by making the local mail sending server to accept mail but not to send then. Instead purge the queue. In postfix 'postsuper -d ALL' (from memory).