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Only people with administrator or instructor rights can use Backup/Restore functions on CCLE/Moodle. One can use the backup/restore functions in the Administration block to copy the course content1) from the archive server (Moodle 1.8) to the production server...

We can sort students by their first name, last name and assigned grades by clicking a heading on grade report chart.1. Sorting by names: By default, students are sorted out by their first names. Click ‘Last name’ above the students’ name, and they’ll be sorted...

DOCUMENTATION BELOW IS OUTDATED FOR MOODLE 2Please see: https://ccle.ucla.edu/mod/wiki/view.php?pageid=4318-——————————————————————————————————-(This article duplcates: https://kb.ucla.edu/link/1105)Below are the steps to crosslist two already existing courses ...

In CCLE Moodle, as an instructor, you can create 3 questionnaire types depending on the extent that you’d like to share the questionnaire:1. public: any instructor on CCLE Moodle can reuse the questionnaire within their courses.2. private: only you can reuse t...

Here are some Moodle MySQL Queries that are useful for generating activity statistics:From http://blog.weber.k12.ut.us/jreeve/some-simple-mysql-queries-for-moodle/Find the most popular activities:SELECT COUNT(l.id) hits, moduleFROM mdl_log lWHERE module != 'lo...

CCLE Shared System (Moodle) Status ccle.ucla.eduWelcome to the CCLE Shared Systems Status page maintained by members of the CCLE Support team. The information provided here is designed to keep CCLE users informed about new and ongoing issues including upgrades...

You’ll noticed if you copy your text from a wordprocessor, such as Microsoft Word, you’ll see a lot of extra text appear on your Moodle posting after you’ve added it to the forum. The chunk of additional text is generally formatting codes from that wordproces...

Online Version of Using Moodle Version 2 by Jason Cole & Helen Foster Review of Moodle Books from Pakt PublishingRelated Articles https://kb.ucla.edu/link/813/Using Moodle, 2nd ed is available through UCLA’s aggreement with O’Reilly Book/Safari Online : h...

Feel free to add to this list.Error handling of get_records() and its variants (e.g. get_records_sql())A common usage of these functions is like this:$records = get_records() or my_error_handler();...The problem is, if the query is executed successfully but ma...

I’m writing this so I can find it next time I want to do this, and so my student programmers can more easily compare config settings across test sites.Problem: Find a particular line quickly in a file in 7 different directories. In this case, it’s a Moodle co...

In case a course has a missing announcements or news forum, here is the solution: Get the course id of the course you are viewing Goto mdl_forum in MySQL Find the news and announcement forums corresponding to the course id Delete those two forumsThis will crea...

Overview: XAMPP contains a package called Mercury which allows you to set up a local SMTP server which can relay messages to external servers such as Gmail. This is useful if you want to test the mailing features of moodle on your local machine.What you need: ...

Cross-listed courses consist of one meta course and multiple child courses. A caveat of cross-listed courses is that you must add students to the child course not the meta course. Your changes will propagate up to the meta course. With the new Control Panel i...

If you have a large amount of quizzes in hard copy format (Word) it might be worth the trouble to do a little bit of formatting and then use an online converter tool. Also, if you prefer to work in a text editor or Excel (as opposed to using the CCLE Quiz inte...

Although Moodle does not ship with an image gallery module per se, the database tool can be repurposed for that function. It contains certain limitations as an image gallery, for instance: The database cannot browse to images stored in the Moodle File Manager...

Q: Hi, our department is looking for a way to allow voting on various topics… is there a way set up so that we can do this using people’s BOL logins? – posted by David SchillerA: (or at least the start of one) Here are some options: Contact the folks at MyUCL...

From the Moot Down Under — Moodle Keynote, July 2011" Martin Dougiamas is best known as the founder of Moodle, the popular free course management system used by millions of teachers around the world. As the executive director of Moodle Pty Ltd in Perth, Wester...

In order to create a table with alternating row colors in a database activity:The following code goes into the javascript template:function highlightRows() {var myTables=document.getElementsByTagName('table');var myRows = [];for (var i=0;i<myTables.length;i...