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I have an old computer. How do I recycle it?
Private ComputersFor residents of of the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles a privately owned, non-university computer, UCLA and the City of Los Angeles have an eWaste program at UCLA for “Residential Special Materials and Electronic Waste”.LA C...
Technical Cheat Sheets
This technical cheat sheet roundup by smashing magazine. has cheat sheets for Ajax, Apache, ASCII, C#, C++, CSS, Firefox, Gimp, Google, Java, Javascript, LaTeX, Microformats, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, Photoshop, PHP, Python, Regular Expressions, Ruby, Subversion, ...
Wiki Resources
wiki are a tool for collaborative editing that is growing in recognition and popularity. Here are some (hopefully) relevant resources for those of us at UCLA who are interested in using wikis. https://kb.ucla.edu/link/125 Wikimania 2006 Web siteWiki tools htt...
TREES FOR A GREEN LA
LADWP offers free shade trees to City Residents—visit the website at http://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/cms/ladwp000744.jsp for more details. This was copied from the website:FREE Residential Shade TreesLADWP has made it simple for Los Angeles City residents to rece...
MacBook waking while lid is closed
“If you have ever had your MacBook or MacBook Pro inexplicably wake while the lid is closed, there is a good probability that Bluetooth may be the culprit. If you have Bluetooth enabled, there is a default setting ‘Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer...
How do I clear a stuck print job after trying to cancel it from system tray?
Try this: Click Start → Run Type “CMD”, then click OK Type “net stop spooler” and press enter to turn off the service Wait a couple of seconds and check the print queue from the system tray, hopefully the stuck print job has disappeared Type “net start spooler...
Moodle auto-login guests
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 ...
How to hide a site in Moodle
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...
How do I find what Perl modules are installed on my system?
Assuming you have perldoc installed, simply typing perldoc perllocal will give you a nicely-formatted detailed list of all the installed Perl modules.For a simpler list that simply prints out the module names and their version numbers, there is another alterna...
How do I convert a .docx file on a Mac OS X
By default, Office 2007 saves documents in a new XML format (.docx). Please follow the link below to download a widget that allows users to convert files straight from the MAC OS X desktop.DOCX ConverterHave fun!• • •For best compatibility across versions of ...
What happens in Moodle if two people try and edit a wiki page at the same time?
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...
Troubleshooting AIS Mainframe Printing
For initial setup see: https://kb.ucla.edu/link/634Troubleshooting:To troubleshoot a printing problem you will need the following information:RMT number, IP address and and the queue name of printer.Example: RMT3695, 164.67.133.36 / NorthTop 3 most common JQP...
Does Moodle allow multiple login options at same time, e.g. Shibboleth and another?
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...
Moodle auto-enrollment techniques
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 ...
Can I change the format of a Moodle site after it's been created and used awhile?
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...
In Moodle what are the advantages of the different site formats?
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 ...
In Moodle is teacher the right default role when you want everyone in the site to be able to have full write privileges?
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...
In Moodle can we make a site show up publicly, but not show its list of members?
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...