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Our  network manager has installed Moodle in our school  on server 2008 R2 IIS - but the vanilla install has a max upload size of 2MB.

He says he has followed the instructions here  http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/File_upload_size

trying both with instructions for  the server 2008 and the XP/Server 2003 but no joy.

Does anyone have any suggestions please?

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Hi there. I'm posting on behalf of our network manager who is trying to install Moodle 2.4 in our school and has got stuck at the PHP point. It's Server 2003 R2 on IIS 6 (hopefully that means something to you) When he goes to the browser he gets the message that he is running PHP 5.2.9 and he needs 5.3.2. Now- I knew that already but what I don't know, and he doesn't know - is how he changes it. Could someone help please?

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This might be more suited to the comparisons and advocacy forum but I thought I'd post here since it's just raising the issue in general, gauging opinion, and I've just posted on the Moodle and SN thread, which is sort of connected. I spent a couple of days at BETT ( a UK educational trade fair) and did a whistlestop tour of some commercial LMS from a secondary school point of view. I'm also interested, for my own personal development, in how other Open Source LMS(VLEs) compare pedagogically with Moodle - ie, what they do better, what  Moodle does better and what both do differently and how we could learn from other commercial and Open Source products in order to improve Moodle. Does anyone know of any in depth research on this? I've seen the odd "Moodle v Blackboard" type paper or blog post on ,say Moodle v Edmodo but nothing more. Have I missed anything? Would there be any merit in my doing some research on this? (Kind of objective "compare and contrast" Moodle with the best known other products) Personal research, in my own time, obviously, as I have no plans to go back off to college and write a Phdbig grin But I was fascinated when I questioned other providers at BETT at how they saw things different from (and similar to) Moodle, so I just wondered if it might be useful? From my point of view, it would also mean I could speak with authority about why Moodle is BEST (because I had studied the others) rather than just assuming it is because everyone I know uses it!

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Hi all. (I'm posting this in the hope that Mary Cooch might respond quickly with the solution, but please anyone with an idea, repond as wellsmile) Block permissions have been revamped in 2.4 and I don't know if this has anything to do with it or not, but whereas a student can add blocks to their My home page, when they click "customise this page" on their profile page, they get the message "there are no blocks you can add to this page"and I am trying to work out what the issue is. The authenticated user role has manageownblocks set to "allow" and student "not set"

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