Peter Ruthven-Stuart

Kirill Sokolov wrote:

I am running Moodle 1.2 development (2004020300). The HTML editor works just fine if I try to update/edit an HTML Text resource from a Windows machine on my network. However, if I use a Mac OS X computer, running either Safari or IE (latest versions) I get a simple form page with HTML source displayed.

I think this is a network/firewall issue of some sort, ...

I don't believe it's a Firewall issue. I also use Mac OS X. The HTML editor does not work with IE or Safari. It does work in Netscape 7.1 for Mac.

I would like to be able to allow only specified students to access recordings of oral tests within a course.

For example, there are 30 students registered to a Moodle course. These students' oral tests are recorded and uploaded to Moodle. I would like each student to listen to their own test and evaluate their own performance. This is all possible with Moodle. However, what I would like is to be able to restrict access to each sound file so that only 'student A' can hear her test. I don't want other students being able to hear other students' tests.

Is there any way to do this within Moodle?

I realise that I could create a course for each student; only 'student A' would have access to her own course and the recordings within it. However, this would be a very cumbersome work-a-round.

Any suggestions most welcome.

Thank you.

I am using Moodle 1.1.1 running on a Macintosh.

The problem mentioned above (garbled 'mailto:' at the head of email addresses) seems to be an IE Mac problem.

When I click on a name in the list of users I am taken to the profile of that user - fine so far.

With mac IE 5.2.2 (5010.1) if I move the mouse arrow over the email address I can see the 'link' in the status bar. Here I can see that the 'mailto:' part has been altered, always with 'm' at the beginning and the colon at the end, but there are amost always letters missing; e.g. 'milt:' or 'malt:' or 'mil:' or 'malto:' or 'mailo:' etc.

When I reload the page this changes. Sometimes the correct 'mailto:' appears.

I have checked this on a Windows machine using both IE and Netscape and the problem is not duplicated. Furthermore, the problem does not occur in Mac Netscape or Safari.

Certainly not a big problem, but can this be fixed?

I am a new user and have set up an experimental Moodle on my Mac.

Looking at the source code I realised that the coding of email addresses was to fool spammers. However, the problem is that the addresses are rendered incorrectly, and furthermore the 'mailto:' bit at the head of an email address is often messed up. e.g. it becomes 'mil:' or 'mal:'.

Any advice?

Thank you.

I made the changes as you suggested and things work fine.

The only problem now is that I've changed the index.php files in both the user and admin directories so that names are listed in alphabetical order according to users 'lastnames'. So, now western names are ordered by family name (=last name) and Japanese names are ordered by given name (=last name), whereas they should be ordered by their family names (=firstname).

This is a minor problem, and since most of my users will be Japanese people I will change things so that Western names also have family names as 'firstname'.