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Normally public Moodle sites are public in the sense that you have to login as GUEST, with no password or registration required. You just click on the LOGIN AS GUEST button and get into the site.But the setting below allows you to automatically treat visitors ...

If you don’t want a Moodle site/course to be visible at all, then the not-too intuitive setting you need is called “Availability.”The setting is located under: Administration > Settings and at least in version 1.7 has only two settings: This course is ava...

In Moodle 1.7 if someone is editing a wiki page when you go into edit it, you get an error message like this:This page is being edited by Annelie Chapman. They began editing at Friday, 5 January 2007, 12:29 PM and still have the window open as of Friday, 5 Jan...

According to this Shibboleth README file in Moodle 1.7 yes, you can use Shibboleth and another login option, though users will have to use one or the other, not both.You can use Shibboleth AND another authentication method (it was tested with manual login). S...

To clarify the question, we’re looking for ways that large Moodle installations get their class roster data into Moodle in as close to real-time as possible. Answers could include links to discussions of this topic or documentation specific to this.There are ...

According to “Using Moodle” by Jason Cole it is ok to switch a Moodle site’s format after it’s in use. In 1.7 I only experimented with a very small site with only one topic, but it didn’t lose anything as I switched between Topic, Weekly, Social and then back...

When setting up a Moodle site, you have to pick a site format. Here is a quick description of the main choices. Weekly Pick this and set it for the number of weeks in your class, and it will create a list of weeks down the center block of the site main page ...

To clarify the question, what is the minimum role you can assign as a default for a site that will let the participants add material (and activities) to the site? Do they need to be Course Creator, or is Teacher enough. Or is there a lower role that would sti...

To clarify, on http://ccle.ucla.edu why does Sysop not show members and Integration subgroup does?The individual names listed under the course name are the Teachers you set for the course, not the students.In Moodle 1.6 while in the specific course you can cha...

Please answer this if you can, and then retag it. ThanksTo clarify the question, if we make the site “not available to students” then it’s not going to show up on the list of available sites, or sites that can be enrolled in. Is there any way to let the people...

The question is whether a metacourse can have a metacourse underneath it. And at least with a quick test in Moodle 1.7 the answer is no. The course settings question: “Is this a meta course?” does not allow a choice. Instead it says. “No – This course is alr...

Please answer this if you can, and then retag it. ThanksTo clarify the question, does Moodle have some sort of provision for storing extra data about students and courses and possibly other things like departments, crosslisted and joined classes, etc?For examp...

Shibboleth has a very flexible attribute release mechanism, and can in theory tell an application whether a person is a UCLA person.However, the defintion of “UCLA person” varies depending on the cotext. You can find a list of attributes Shibboleth potentially...

To clarify the question, in the default Moodle 1.7 Wiki (based on Erfurt Wiki), numeric lists seem to only work if they are single space. If you put a line between them, then they restart each list item with 1. This Knowledgebase wiki-like formatting has the ...

To clarify the question, what controls the assignment of role to a new subscriber (e.g. why are some people assigned the role of Teacher in some sites, and others the role of Course Creator in other sites)?In Moodle 1.6 all users are considered guests who can ...

To avoid the risk that an uploaded file in a Moodle site might have a virus which could spread to the computer of a student who downloaded and ran it (e.g. a Microsoft Word file with a virus) many learning management systems at UCLA (Engineering and Social Sci...

In my attempts to start “thinking in Moodle” I thought it might be interesting to search for interviews with the originator and guiding hand of Moodle, Martin Dougiamas. Here’s what I’ve found so far. 23 Oct 2006 http://www.stevehargadon.com/2006/10/interview-...

According to the Moodle docs (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Edit_profile#Email_activated ):“One can either enable or disable emails being sent to an address. Note that if this is disabled, students will not receive any mail whatsoever from the site.”