Chad Parmentier

My wife and I both have Masters from the University of Michigan in English. Between the two of us we have specializations in Literacy, Literature, Linguistics, and college writing. Referring to the UK and AU variants in spelling is arrogant if not ignorant. Even in the US we have regional variations of spelling and dialect. In my classes and in life I am educated enough to know and understand that these "misspellings" are simply regional/international variations on the language. I doubt there is any loss of meaning or misunderstanding in the communication. As we enter a global environment the natural evolution of language will determine what spelling is more correct, and that will be decided by usage. So If I had to choose between enrol or enroll, I think enrol with one l makes far more sense than two l's, so from now on I will use enrol.

Besides if the spelling variation bothers you so much one solution would be to simply not use moodle. Additionally If I recall both Britain and Australian educational systems are a bit more successful than the US educational system. I'm with them.

On one last note if your using this in the classroom and students ask about the differences in spelling doesn't this afford the instructor with a great opportunity to teach language in a way that is interesting and culturally informative to students, they are bound to see these spellings in real life, why not expose them to it in an educational way? I think this might be a more effective way to open a dialog with students on grammar verses static unrealistic worksheets. It might also enable teachers to talk about language and how it evolves based on usage.

I have not been able to locate any help files either. I will see If I can write some up and post another version of the webquest mod here.

We run a fairly large institution 11,000 users or so, is this script that allows for group icons such as the hammer available to other installations? We would like something like this to help faculty, students, and newbies identify admins that post in our installation. up untill this point we have been placing (admin) after our surname in the profile.

Great mod to the code, my instructors have been really messing up the automated enrollment process. This code works everywhere in edit_form.php except for the course start and end dates section. If you make this an admin only function when instructors try to save changes they are allowed to make them but it errors because the little check boxes that disable start and end dates are enabled, but instructors cannot see the error because its only viewable to admins. if you view it as an admin the boxes are check "disable" and all is fine. I was only able to discover this by removing the "if(has capability"code, then when I refresh the screen logged in as the instructor it shows the check boxes unchecked and you learn the default course start and end date are the same, which is throwing the error now visible. below is the code, any way to fix this?

//disable course startdates admins only
        if (has_capability('moodle/course:create', $categorycontext)) {
        $enroldatestartgrp = array();
        $enroldatestartgrp[] = &MoodleQuickForm::createElement('date_selector', 'enrolstartdate');
        $enroldatestartgrp[] = &MoodleQuickForm::createElement('checkbox', 'enrolstartdisabled', null, get_string('disable'));
        $mform->addGroup($enroldatestartgrp, 'enrolstartdategrp', get_string('enrolstartdate'), ' ', false);
        $mform->setDefault('enrolstartdate', 0);
        $mform->setDefault('enrolstartdisabled', 1);
        $mform->disabledIf('enrolstartdategrp', 'enrolstartdisabled', 'checked');
 } else {
            $mform->addElement('hidden', 'enrolstartdate', null);
        }
//disable course enddates admin feature only
if (has_capability('moodle/course:create', $categorycontext)) {
        $enroldateendgrp = array();
        $enroldateendgrp[] = &MoodleQuickForm::createElement('date_selector', 'enrolenddate');
        $enroldateendgrp[] = &MoodleQuickForm::createElement('checkbox', 'enrolenddisabled', null, get_string('disable'));
        $mform->addGroup($enroldateendgrp, 'enroldateendgrp', get_string('enrolenddate'), ' ', false);
        $mform->setDefault('enrolenddate', 0);
        $mform->setDefault('enrolenddisabled', 1);
        $mform->disabledIf('enroldateendgrp', 'enrolenddisabled', 'checked');
 } else {
            $mform->addElement('hidden', 'enrolenddate', null);
        }

Password is = letmein

i called Remote Learner and asked them. enjoy