Peter Ruthven-Stuart

Urs,

Thanks again for your advice.

"...the easiest way would be you download a free theme with a header picture and look how the theme is done."

Yes, I thought I'd have to do that .

I would like to modify the header and footer html files in my theme folder. Any advice about how to do this will be greatly appreciated.

You can see my present moodle site here:

http://moodle.petesweb.org/

I would like the top page to look like this:

http://www.petesweb.org/examples/example_moodle_pages/main_page.html

so that the FUN moodle jpg banner appears in the header of the main page, and the 'moodle' logo and my university logo appears in the footer.

I would look other pages (course pages) to look like this:

http://www.petesweb.org/examples/example_moodle_pages/other_page.html

so that a jpg banner appears in the header, and no change to the footer.

If you have any ideas about the code I need to add to the header and footer html files, I will be most grateful.

I am using the 'standard blue' theme, and Moodle 1.5.2.

Thank you.

Urs,

Thank you very much for your help.

I downloaded the updated "styles.php" from CVS and installed it into my moodle. The timer still does not float in Mac Safari or Firefox . However, it does float in Windows IE. I'm not sure about Windows Firefox.

Given that most of my students use Windows IE, or at least have IE, this fix helps a lot. Thanks again .

I have just recently upgraded from 1.4.4 to 1.5.2, and have noticed that the JavaScript Timer in the quiz no longer floats and is stationary in the bottom left hand corner of quiz pages. I understand from another post that this may not be a problem with explorer, but it is a problem with Firefox.

Certainly, quiz takers can scroll down and check the time. However, the floating timer was far more user friendly. Is there anyway that that the timer can be 'refloated'?

I realise that one workaround to the sunken timer is to limit the number of questions per page to just one or two. This way, depending on the length of individual questions, the timer will probably be visible without scolling. However, there are occasions when limiting the number of questions on a page is not a viable option.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

I have been practising upgrading my Moodle site. Before I upgrade my production site I have been experimenting on an experimental site and have found a problem when importing questionnaires that contain Japanese text.

The course that contains the questionnaires has been imported without any apparent problems. Furthermore the structure of the questionnaires appears to be OK. This includes instructions written in Japanese; this text has not been garbled. However, questions that contain Japanese text have been garbled. I have tried changing the encoding in my browser, but this does not solve the problem. I imagine the problem either occurred when I backed-up the original course containing the questionnaires, or when I imported the course. Either way the information re the text encoding of the questions appears to have been lost.

Specifically, the Japanese text in the 'questionnaire' MySQL table (this table contains information about each questionnaire and appears at the top of questionnaires) has not been garbled, but the Japanese text in the 'questionnaire_question' table (this table contains the questions) has been garbled.

The image below shows how the instructions and first question of a questionnaire should appear:




This image shows how the Japanese has been garbled after the questionnaire was imported into a new course:



Any advice about how to fix this problem will be much appreciated. Thank you.

I am using questionnaire module version 2005062701.