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MyUCLA Online Election Tool
The MyUCLA Election tool provides the means (database, ballot interface, voter notification and authentication) by which election votes may be cast online and election results tabulated and delivered promptly to the sponsoring organization.The sponsoring organ...
Moodle Quiz cutoff time
What does the cutoff time for a Moodle Quiz control?The Cutoff time prevents both starting a quiz and submitting an already-started quiz once that time is past. Instructors can check the unsubmitted saved answers and the answers are checked against the correct...
Tips for creating a secure password
How can I create a secure password?Update: Read this first: Choosing a Secure Password by Bruce Schneier, Feb. 25, 2014Your password is your key to access important personal information both on your computer and online. Should criminals or other perpetrators...
About IAMUCLA
IAMUCLA is the new name for the suite of identity management related projects and services, including ISIS, Enterprise Directory, Shibboleth, and more. It is a set of services helping campus applications manage the process of establishing “who you are” and “wh...
UC Systemwide Electronic Accessibility Efforts
The systemwide UC Information Technology Accessibility Policy has been approved and is effective as of August 27, 2013. The policy promotes and supports an accessible IT environment within the University. By supporting IT accessibility, the University helps en...
Utilities to convert CSV files or tab-delimited text to Moodle Glossary XML
glossaryXMLconverterglossaryXMLconverter is a GUI utility program for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (does not run on 10.4 Tiger). This can convert CSV files (encoded in ASCII or UTF-8) from Apple’s Numbers or Google Spreadsheet to an XML file that Moodle Glossary T...
Free/open source information retrieval libraries
What are they and why using oneInformation retrieval libraries are software libraries that provides functionality for searching within databases and documents within them. In particular, this often refers to searching text document for combinations of words an...
Mac OS X versions (builds) included with Intel-based Macs
It is often confusing to try and figure not only which minimum version of OS X supports a particular Mac, but what specific BUILD of that OS version.Here is the Apple Kbase article that clears it all up:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159?viewlocale=en_USQuot...
Web Accessibility Resources
This article is a resource list to help Web developers design sites that are accessible to persons with disabilities. The list will evolve as technology changes, and also in response to issues raised by UCLA Web developers. It will be further supplemented by o...
Scope of environment variables in shells and shell scripts
A environment variable defined in a shell (or a shell script) stays defined everywhere, including inside new shells (or shell scripts) executed within the shell, until the shell (or the shell script) terminates or the variable gets unset explicitly. E.g.script...
Import resources/activities from one Moodle site to another
If you would like to reuse resources or activities from another course you’ve taught or are teaching, you can use the IMPORT function in the Administration block.Important notes1. Both the source and destination courses need to sit on the same server.2. Sectio...
Creating Groups in Moodle
In the Administration block you have a link called Groups. Groups are useful for breaking down a course with a lot of students (i.e., participants) into manageable subsections. These subsections or groups could correspond to sections of your course, which may ...
Using Forums
A Forum is essentially a bulletin board or discussion board. You may have multiple Forums on your Moodle course site, and within each Forum you may have multiple discussion topics. Replies to the original discussion topic, which is the first post to the discus...
Apache 2 Virtual Hosts File
To find the home directory (DocumentRoot) of a virtual host’s directory on an Apache 2 server, use the command less /usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf to read the virtual host config file of Apache, and then search for the hostname to find the hom...
How to enable access to your CCLE/Moodle course
For TAs and instructors using the campus-wide ccle system at ccle.ucla.edu, this article no longer applies. See Inviting users to join a class (https://docs.ccle.ucla.edu/w/Invite_users_to_join_my_class) This article explains how someone with the role of “ins...
How to remove participants from a Moodle course site
This article explains how an instructor (or someone with a higher level of access) can remove a participant from a CCLE/Moodle course site. The participant removed will subsequently not appear in the list of participants and will no longer have access to the c...
ArcMap Please wait while Windows installer configures ArcGIS Desktop
Problem:-——-Running ArcMap always causes the Windows Installer to launch and reconfigure ArcGIS desktop.Repeatedly clicking cancel when this comes up will eventually get ArcMap to load.This happens in ArcGIS 9.2 including SP4.Solution:-———http://support.esri.c...
Requesting a collaboration site on Moodle (CCLE)
Anyone from a unit that has opted into CCLE and who has a CCLE account (UCLA Logon ID or special-case login) can request a collaboration site on CCLE. If you don’t have a UCLA Logon ID, you can go to https://accounts.iam.ucla.edu to create one.To request a col...