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Posting Syllabus for Social Sciences Class Websites
Click Turning Editing On Click on the “Syllabus” section in the course menu navigation to the left of the site Click “Add syllabus” If possible, we recommend making the syllabus available to the UCLA Community or to the general public. This way, students s...
Microsoft Outlook doesn't connect or isn't sending and receiving
Symptom:You have an active internet connection (test by opening a webpage) and Outlook is fully functional, except it does not seem to download new mail, and outgoing mail is not sent.Cause:Outlook may be on “Working Offline” mode. This mode assumes you are no...
What are Moodle context levels?
If you’re programming with Moodle, you probably want to stick with the APIs, but if you’re trying to track things down through the database, knowing what context levels mean can be important. Until my colleague from CLICC found this, all I know was that 50 mea...
How to share a file among multiple courses in Moodle?
There are two ways to do it: Place them in the “site files” area. It looks like only the administrator can do this. Also, the file will be viewable by everyone (i.e. don’t put sensitive data there). Use the myFiles module to share the file. (However, someone i...
In Moodle, why is a particular page blank or incomplete?
Does this happen when trying to open a PDF resource?This issue may occur when a user tries to open a PDF resource due to an incompatibility between Moodle and the Adobe Reader plugin on some of the most recent browsers. Generally speaking, refreshing the wind...
How to view DBDesigner4 documents in Mac OS X
Unfortunately, DBDesigner4 is written in Delphi, which is practically Windows-only, so there is not and probably will not be a Mac OS X version. Also, no other applications are able to show diagrams in this format.DBDesigner is replaced by MySQL workbench. It ...
Questions about developing content for UCLA's CCLE Website
What skills do I need to write webpages for UCLA’s CCLE site?: TBDWill someone review my changes? What if I need help?: TBDAre my changes owned by me? Will anyone make changes to my content without telling me?: TBDIs UCLA free to distribute my content to oth...
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How can I send an email to multiple classes in MyUCLA?
Log into MyUCLA (http://my.ucla.edu) Click the Email to Class link under My Features or click the Email link for any class on your Classes page. An option will appear to select the term and class desired. In the drop down box for class, select the Multiple Cl...
How to Change 'Topic Outline' on Class Page
This is a description of the location of code that should be changed in order to remove the ‘Topic Outline’ header of the class page a replace it with The class name and info. This information is for Moodle v1.7 found at http://xref.moodle.org. The code pertai...
How to Remove Icons in Moodle
This article is about removing Icons from the course formats page (when displaying the course page) for Moodle 1.7. The code referenced can be found at xref.moodle.org. The lack of a icon switch variable still exists in version 1.8 (found at http://moodle.cvs...
In Moodle, which roles appear as participants and which don't?
In Moodle 1.7 it seems that admins don’t show up as participants in individual Moodle sites. WRONG. They shouldn’t but they do as well. See the note from Ricardo Garcia below. Are there any other roles that hide that way? Is it something we can turn on for a g...
How are files handled in Moodle, WebCT and Sakai?
In MoodleOnly instructors can access a complete view of a course site’s files in Administration > Files. There is no personal file space for student users (unless the student attaches or posts files to a designated activity, e.g. Forum, Assignment). In the...
How can faculty or TAs see pictures of the students enrolled in their classes?
This is now available through MyUCLA’s class roster feature. Log into MyUCLA and go to Classes. Click the Roster link and there will be a camera icon next to each student. Click on this icon to view a picture of that student.There is also a Photo Roster link...
Problems with Moodle non-UCLA Special Cases
This is a list of the problems that we are currently aware of with special case enrollments in Moodle classes where the person does not have a UCLA Login and can log into My.UCLA (use ISIS). And who can add them? Instructors, TAs, Admins?Problems they won’t s...
Can Shibboleth log all attributes retrieved?
Please answer this question and change the tags.In debugging Moodle login problems it would be extremely helpfulv if we could log the attributes Shibboleth delivers for each person on login.The reason this is useful is that some Extension Students have uclaLog...
How can I compare text files in Windows?
Some Windows machines come with a basic comparison tool from Microsoft named windiff.exe. If your machine doesn’t already have WinDiff, it can be found in the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools.A more robust alternative is the Open Source WinMerge.“WinMe...
Finding most recently changed files in Unix
How do I find the most recently changed files in a set of subdirectories on Unix or Linux?Answer 1: This will show the most recent 10 files in current directory and below.It supports filenames with spaces. And can be slow with lots of files http://stackoverflo...