Posts made by Visvanath Ratnaweera

Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> Off-the-grid Moodle sites which are capable of syncing with the mother-site? -> Re: Off-the-grid Moodle sites which are capable of syncing with the mother-site?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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As you see it is my subject too. Appreciate everybody's interest on the same. But my original question was different, it was about the syncing method, about a technology. So I made a new post, Off-the-grid Moodle sites which are capable of syncing with the mother-site? (II), in the General developer forum. Now this stage is open for discussion(s) on all the other aspects.
 
What I observe in moodle.org discussions and the MoodleBox Support forum is the overlap we have. I know your stream of Fosstodon posts, including https://fosstodon.org/@marcusgreen/111932284876927220. May be I should join Fosstodon.

To the moderator: With that I take back my earlier request to shift the discussion to the General developer forum. Not necessary now.
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Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> Off-the-grid Moodle sites which are capable of syncing with the mother-site? -> Re: Off-the-grid Moodle sites which are capable of syncing with the mother-site?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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I watched the video. Found it interesting. Thanks for the feedback, other readers will appreciate it. @all, we are talking about "Moodle offline - Reaching marginalised communities | Moodle Academy" YouTube/watch?v=wYeQW3WrFW0 (replace YouTube with its domain).
 
To the moderator: Probably "Teaching with Moodle" is the wrong forum. Do you mind shifting the discussion to the General developer forum?
 
The question is:
Assume that a "mother" site has been duplicated and distributed. How could the mother site update the children as it develops? I mean, as more courses and content to existing courses are being added to the mother site? The assumption is that the child sites go on-line sporadically.
 
According to the video at 42:30, https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wYeQW3WrFW0&t=2547s (remove the blank), Moodle HQ or a partner is working on this. Is it available publicly?
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Moodle in English -> General developer forum -> Off-the-grid Moodle sites which are capable of syncing with the mother-site? (II)

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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This is a recurring question in the forums. Assume that a "mother" site has been duplicated and distributed. How could the mother site update the children as it develops? I mean, as more courses and content to existing courses are being added to the mother site? The assumption is that the child sites go on-line sporadically.

It was mentioned in the Moodle Academy webinar "Moodle offline - Reaching marginalised communities" that Moodle HQ or a partner is working on this. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wYeQW3WrFW0&t=2547s (remove the blank). Is it available publicly?

P.S. Although content-wise identical to Off-the-grid Moodle sites which are capable of syncing with the mother-site? in the Teaching with Moodle forum this is not a re-post, rather a split (a fork!). In the Teaching with Moodle forum people dived in to the pedagogical aspects, which is understandable. I post the same here for the attention of Moodle HQ and/or the Moodle Partner(s) who are developing this syncing mechanism for more information.

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Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> Assistance with Cron Job Frequency Error and Email Failure -> Re: Assistance with Cron Job Frequency Error and Email Failure

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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What I meant was to try to put 0/3 or 0/2 or even 0/1 in the minute field, if the control panel does not like '*'. As Adam has pointed out you can "smuggle" many things through the command for the crontab, if you direly need this.
 
But, I repeat, running cron every 5 min will not have any noticeable negative effects other than Moodle taking that much time to react to certain actions like sending forum mails - unless your Moodle site is for a big institution. Well, then you won't be running it in a shared hosting. wink
 
Yeah, the "emails are not being sent" is a completely different issue, if the cron is running, that is. You should have started a new discussion on that.
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Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> Database install on Intel Macbook Pro -> Re: Database install on Intel Macbook Pro

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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This is a continuation of Installing and upgrading help Macintosh Catalina (10.15.7) install, I believe.
 
Another solution that was not mentioned in the previous discussion (and probably not the one you are looking for) is to run a LAMP server as a virtual machine in the Mac. From what I read the software Parallels is very popular on macOS.
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