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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...

This article may be very old. Please reach out to local support staff if you have questions.This article is directed at Moodle support staff.Moodle users need to authenticate using UCLA’s Shibboleth service. If there is a problem in the authentication chain, u...

Below are the two ways to find the version number of Moodle. This can be important for support people, or people interested in version-specific features. Logged in or not, hover your mouse over the Moodle logo on the front page, and the pop-up tooltip will let...

There is some confusion regarding the interplay between forum settings on Moodle. In one place you can set up a forum using group mode (which can be used to send messages to separate groups), but another setting “Forces all members to subscribe.”The question i...

When do students get access to the CCLE class sites?The moment the students are officially enrolled in the class, they will have access to the CCLE class sites. However, there might be a slight delay in syncing the roster to the class sites. If this happens, p...

SeleniumSelenium is an open-source web application testing system that records and generates testing scripts that can be used for debugging purposes. Selenium IDE is a Mozilla Firefox plugin that enables users to easily create testing scripts by directly reco...

Site Administrators can leverage the unique characteristics of the Front Page (MySites) of CCLE to deploy site-wide activities. The advantages to using the front page are: 1. You can control who sees which activity based on user role (targeting the user) and 2...

Say you have two databases in your Moodle site, and you want to send data from one database to the other one to fill in a form. An easy way to do this is by sending the required data through the url and utilizing JavaScript. Sample 1 In Sample 1, lets say ...

Since Moodle 2.0 brings major changes, this page extends on https://kb.ucla.edu/link/766 with specific Moodle 2.0 docs and other resources. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_2.0_release_notes http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Migrating_contrib_code_to_2....

If you are trying to restore a collaboration site from the Archive server unto the Production server but are getting user data errors (and the restore is failing), check to make sure that all users who appear in the pink error box have the exact same user info...

About Below are steps to configure a shibboleth SP to work with multiple Apache virtual hosts using a single entityID and an Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) and shibboleth’s NativeSPApplicationOverride. More information can be found here regarding NativeSPAp...

Summary Here at UCLA, the team that runs the main campus Moodle installation has decided to move to GIT from SVN. The primary motivation behind this move is that Moodle.org is moving to GIT. It makes sense for us to move because GIT is a distributed VCS, and ...

NEW FEATURE   Customize Student, TA and Guest Roles with Overrride Permissions Overrides are specific permissions designed to change a role in a specific context, allowing instructors to tweak their course permissions as required. (Tweaking involves grant...

A student was getting this error message when she tried to submit her assignment to the Turnitin Activity on the CCLE class site: “Uploading user information failed because user email was changed to an address that is already associated with an account. UID: ...

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

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...

This article explains how to request a course site on the CCLE Shared System for local support. If you are not local support (such as the instructor of record or TA), please reach out to your local support For information on other types of sites on Moodle (CC...

Very basic guide how to get GIT set up on Windows or OSX.Documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Quick_Git_start_guide_for_Moodle_developmentSetting up the Environment Windows: http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ Mac OSX: http://help.github.com...