Patrick Malley

I've been working on a new theme for the Moodle 2.0 release, and I'm at the point where it's ready for testing.

I want to share it now, though, as a beta release.

So, meet Anomaly 0.8:

Could someone with access to the new Moodle.org theme please provide the PHP used to call the "My Courses" menu being used in header.html to produce the dynamic user course list?

This would be very useful to many theme developers.

I've finally gotten around to uploading another free theme to the database. It's called "Simplicity" and is available here.

A few of its features:

• A front-page PHP image swapper that loads a new image whenever the page is loaded.
• Built on top of the Standard theme.
• Use of the site description as tagline on the front page header.
• Separate stylesheet for colors, with instructions on editing, for easy customization.
• Lightweight.

Once it gets approved in the Themes database, I will add a link to it here.

Please post any issues or requests you have here where I can find it.

Enjoy.

What I want to do

I would like to create a "messenger" role in which all members of that role can message. I want to then add all site users to that role. Then, when a user sends inappropriate messages, I can boot them out of the role.

What I've tried.

I attempted the directions in the Docs to no avail.

Specifically, I

1. Changed the site:sendmessage variable in the Authenticated User role from "Allow" to "Not set."
2. Created a new role (without a legacy role) and set site:sendmessage to "Allow."
3. Moved all users into that new role.
4. Moved one student out of that role for testing.
5. Logged in as that student and could still message.

Can you help?

This has to be a bug.

I used bulk delete to clear my school install of last year's students.

But, some of the students I deleted had sent messages to their teachers at the end of the year that were left unread.

Now, those teachers have perpetual notice of a message awaiting them from a student that does not exist. When they click the message icon to read it, the get notice that "This user account has been deleted."

How do I fix this? I'm guessing that I could clear mdl_message of all rows? Please advise since I'm a relative novice with databases.

I appreciate any help that you can offer.