Peter Ruthven-Stuart

Hello Marc,

Thank you for your reply.

I found the Tracker report to which you referred: MDL-40568

Hopefully this issue will be resolved soon.

Hello,

As the admin of a Moodle (version 2.4.3), I have been approached by a maths teaching colleague who wants to know how he can use Moodle in his classes.

This prompted me to experiment with the DragMath equation editor. On doing so, I got the following Java Security warning:

This application will be blocked in a future Java security update because the JAR file manifest does not contain the Permissions attribute. Please contact the Publisher for more information.

I have Java 7 Update 45, running on a Mac (OS 10.7.5). I believe that it's the latest Java version.

I get the same Java security warning when starting to use DragMath on a Moodle 2.5.3 system.

Does this mean that when Java is updated and my Maths colleagues (and students) then update their versions of Java that DragMath will no longer be usable?

Since I have not used DragMath before, I am not sure whether or not this is standard behaviour or something to be concerned about. At the moment I am reluctant to recommend DragMath if it will 'soon' be rendered obsolete by Java.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you Ken!

I too was wondering how to do a major upgrade via GIT. On reading your instructions I realised that the explanation is 'hidden' in the "Git for Administrators" doc, but to the untrained eye it is not clear that the commands used to "Obtain the code from Git" can also be used to do a major upgrade, e.g. 2.4 to 2.5.

Following your instructions I have successfully upgraded via GIT from 2.4.6 to 2.5.2 on my Mac server. Thank you.

For the record, here are the commands I used:

$ cd /Your/Moodle/Directory/
$ php admin/cli/maintenance.php --enable
$ git pull
$ fgrep '$release' version.php
$ git branch -a
$ git branch --track MOODLE_25_STABLE origin/MOODLE_25_STABLE
$ git checkout MOODLE_25_STABLE
$ fgrep '$release' version.php
$ php admin/cli/upgrade.php
$ php admin/cli/purge_caches.php
$ php admin/cli/maintenance.php --disable

Hello,

I don't have a solution to this, but I have posted an improvement request in the tracker:

"Make it possible to show the TinyMCE HTML editor tools as default"

MDL-41747

Please vote for it.

Hello Mohsen Ghorbani

I am the person who originally conceived of the Qcreate module back in 2007. Having got funding from my university (Future University Hakodate) I commissioned Jamie Pratt to program the module. For people interested in this 1.9 plugin, visit the Question Creation activity module Demonstration Site. Unfortunately, we never got around to upgrading it to Moodle 2.x

However, the good news is that Andreas Riepl of exabis Moodle plugins has upgraded the module to 2.x. You can download it from GitHub

https://github.com/gtn/qcreate

I haven't tried this new version yet, but I am sure it's worth a go.