Patrick Malley

Yair -

I can think of a number of different ways to answer your question. Can you be more specific about what it is you're trying to accomplish? For example, do you want to make the center column look a certain way? If so, what way is that? Do you want to change the content that appears in the center column? If so, that is possible through your site settings.

Specific questions about your problem will always yield the most results.

Is she using a mac? If so, is she using Safari? the HTML editor does not work in Safari. Good luck.

Alan -

Here is the specific CSS code that I used to set the location of the login block at http://www.nilesschools.org/vikingnet/:


.block_login {
color:#fff;
position:absolute;
width:175px !important;
margin-left:8px;
top:80px;
}


I made no alterations to my header.html file. Of course, your installation will be unique, but this should give you an idea of where to start.

If you continue to have problems, let me know. My theme took about a month of obsessing over and positioning that login block took quite some effort - therefore, there might be more code involved in rendering this correctly than I remember. Nevertheless, it's a start!

Good luck.

Thanks Ger. I appreciate and share the sentiment. As a school teacher myself, I feel Moodle helps expose my students to Internet chat, forums, and blogs in a controlled environment.

What I have decided to do in my school is exactly what you outline in your post. As part of the use agreement, students sign on knowing that their use will be monitored. Understanding that students rarely, if ever, read the use policy, I posted news to the front page of my site telling them this important information again. Then, I asked teachers to remind students that their use is monitored - just in case they missed the news. I don't want to trick any students into getting in trouble.

Now, I randomly search for aggressive language, and I rarely find what I'm looking for. On the one occasion I did find something, I turned it into my assistant principal - who deals with such issues regularly - and he called the offending student down for questions. As it turned out, we were able to diffuse a potentially explosive situation before it happened.

I'm not out to punish students who use bad language casually. I'm out to make sure students aren't using the school's system to "flame," insult, threaten, or harass anyone.

P.S. what's a "crofty bomb"???

Matt - add the following to your theme's styles_layout.css file:

#help #header,
#help .navbar {
display:none;
}

This will (should) get rid of your header issue. I've attached a picture of this css alteration on your help pop-up screen. Good luck.