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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...

We needed the ability to display an image for only a quarter of a second. This can be done using javascript. After the tag, add these functionsfunction displayImage(){document.images[0].src = 'flashedImage.jpg'var t = setTimeout("hideImage()",250)}function ...

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-...

Please answer this if you can, and then retag it. ThanksTo clarify the question, Shibboleth (link to entry in KB) is an Internet2 Middleware system to allow us allow login from different schools. What does it take to run this with Moodle? There is a Shibbolet...

Here are links to various sites offering online Help for using Moodle: Feel free to add to the list and/or comment on the quality of the ones already here. Moodle Docs

Please answer this if you can, and then retag it as Moodle. ThanksTo clarify the question, a very nice feature of Moodle 1.7 (perhaps earlier) is that when you add a link to a site, you can specify that you want certain Moodle Parameters to be sent along with ...

The following was passed to me verbatim by a professor in my area. I haven’t tried it yet myself.How to install OSX software remotely: http://www.hmug.org/HowTos/RemoteInstall.htmlTo update OSX remotely: http://www.hmug.org/HowTos/RemoteSysUpdate.htmlFor examp...

To use Second Life on CLICC PC desktops, CLICC recommends the following:On your own computer or a computer on which you are at least a local administrator, please do the following:Download Second Life(SL) zipped files to an external drive such as USB flash dri...

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.”

If your web forms are getting spammed, and CAPTCHA isn’t a good solution, here are some possible alternatives. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=1836 http://softwareas.com/captcha-alternatives-and-end-user-attitudes I’ve taken to renaming our feedback pag...

Customer Self-Service and FAQs for UCLA Housing residents, parents, and prospective residents. Topics include dorms, meal plans, DSL connections, etc. Over 500 questions answered. https://ask.housing.ucla.edu/

Quick answer: http://take-a-screenshot.org/ (different tabs for different systems)Use these shortcuts to take pictures of the screen in Mac OS X. Screen shots are saved as files on the desktop as Picture 1, Picture 2, etc. If you want to put the screen shot in...