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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I may have posted these elsewhere:

Designing for mobile and offline environments | Moodle Academy
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=hwtkR0FncRM (remove the blank)

I found the course design, starting 13:00, very interesting.

What Moodle means for Developing Countries | MoodleMoot Global 2024
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mq597db8ggw (remove the blank)

Warning: They are long. Watch only if you want. Please don't complain here about your time!

P.S. About communication channels: Discuss, where? On YouTube? In the moodle.org forums? On Mastadon?

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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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Peculier! I wrote "May be I should join Fosstodon" and now read Come and Join Mastodon!
 
Generally, I am never for joining "cool" communication platforms or changing the communication channels. That breaks communication and fracture communities. I've had at least two bad experiences, one was bitter. (Now you see why I held on: 20 year warrenty - expired.) But communication is not about me, it needs at least two parties. wink
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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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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 -> 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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