Chad Parmentier

hey can you share the secret to enrolling students into categories....

I am trying to create a new site wide file system and nothing is showing up. Moodledata is set to 777 I have set the owner/grp from 500 to admin to apache. the repository directory I have set to 777 permission owner/grp set to apache and I created directories in the repository directory and they do not show up under the file system list in moodle. I have also tried to create a file system directory from the file system settings page in moodle and no directory is created. This seems to be a permissions/ownership problem but I am not sure what to do. Has anyone else had problems with this?

I think you are refering to a transcript..? If so I don't think there is currently anyway to do this. There are some plug-ins for 1.9 that will do this but I don't think they are available for 2.0 yet. If an admin wanted this Information It probably would not be to difficult to write a SQL query that would pull completed courses by student.

From my understanding there is no community development. (however it is good uptodate code from what I see http://demo.totaralms.com This was a concern for us that is why in my previous post I proposed taking the MITMS code and continuing Development. I am going to recommend going with Totara but if their initiative erodes I think we can fund/take over development and release it as an open contib. I don’t see how this will ever be picked up by Core as it really is not useful the majority of the academic community so this may mean the development of Moodle’s first corporate distribution? Hopefully Totara will continue to develop this and get the funding they need.

This is by far one of the more interesting forums I have posted in, with that said, I am finding Totara and Their hosting partners  frustrating. More the hosting partners than Totara. In doing some research I found that Kineo the Platinum U.S Totara partner quoted us with the following priceIm rounding btw $US)

Totara Code:
 $3000 annual

Hosting:

VPS server
60GB
960MB SLM
$3350.00 annual

Maintenance and support

35450.00 annual Covers upgrades

Implementation Fee required

25,000.00 one time
This covers a branded theme, 1 day training session, some customization, and initial set-up and config.

Total first year roughly: 38,154.00 US ongoing= 13,154.00

I have contacted Classroom Revolution and am awaiting a quote as they too are a Totara partner, so we will see.

I Installed the MITMS version of Moodle 1.9.9 and like it very much but as Richard mentioned work and support ended about a year ago. This is like Totara without some features and learning plans, but would satisfy the majority of needs for corporations like GreenStone. So my thought process lead me to wonder if 10 - 15K per year would be enough to maintain the MTIMS code base. I called a programming firm familiar with Moodle and they thought this was reasonably feasible (lot of unknowns though). So my question is If we were to lead the way and continue maintaining and developing the MTIMS code would anyone else support this either financially or in helping with the code? Unlike Totara and other partners I would like this to be completely open and available as a contrib. as Tim Hunt had suggested. What are your thoughts?