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National Vulnerability Database is a comprehensive cyber security vulnerability database that integrates all publicly available U.S. Government vulnerability resources and provides references to industry resources. “USERS POPULATE THE VULNERABILITY DATABASEA d...

In UCLA’s Sakai Pilot, it’s not enough to install the Wiki tool and assume that those with Maintain privileges will be able to edit pages.To give those privileges, a Sakai Administrator needs to do the following: in Sakai, go to the appropriate site click on W...

This technical cheat sheet roundup by smashing magazine. has cheat sheets for Ajax, Apache, ASCII, C#, C++, CSS, Firefox, Gimp, Google, Java, Javascript, LaTeX, Microformats, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, Photoshop, PHP, Python, Regular Expressions, Ruby, Subversion, ...

wiki are a tool for collaborative editing that is growing in recognition and popularity. Here are some (hopefully) relevant resources for those of us at UCLA who are interested in using wikis. https://kb.ucla.edu/link/125 Wikimania 2006 Web siteWiki tools htt...

“If you have ever had your MacBook or MacBook Pro inexplicably wake while the lid is closed, there is a good probability that Bluetooth may be the culprit. If you have Bluetooth enabled, there is a default setting ‘Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer...

Normally public Moodle sites are public in the sense that you have to login as GUEST, with no password or registration required. You just click on the LOGIN AS GUEST button and get into the site.But the setting below allows you to automatically treat visitors ...

If you don’t want a Moodle site/course to be visible at all, then the not-too intuitive setting you need is called “Availability.”The setting is located under: Administration > Settings and at least in version 1.7 has only two settings: This course is ava...

In Moodle 1.7 if someone is editing a wiki page when you go into edit it, you get an error message like this:This page is being edited by Annelie Chapman. They began editing at Friday, 5 January 2007, 12:29 PM and still have the window open as of Friday, 5 Jan...

According to this Shibboleth README file in Moodle 1.7 yes, you can use Shibboleth and another login option, though users will have to use one or the other, not both.You can use Shibboleth AND another authentication method (it was tested with manual login). S...

To clarify the question, we’re looking for ways that large Moodle installations get their class roster data into Moodle in as close to real-time as possible. Answers could include links to discussions of this topic or documentation specific to this.There are ...

According to “Using Moodle” by Jason Cole it is ok to switch a Moodle site’s format after it’s in use. In 1.7 I only experimented with a very small site with only one topic, but it didn’t lose anything as I switched between Topic, Weekly, Social and then back...

When setting up a Moodle site, you have to pick a site format. Here is a quick description of the main choices. Weekly Pick this and set it for the number of weeks in your class, and it will create a list of weeks down the center block of the site main page ...

To clarify the question, what is the minimum role you can assign as a default for a site that will let the participants add material (and activities) to the site? Do they need to be Course Creator, or is Teacher enough. Or is there a lower role that would sti...

To clarify, on http://ccle.ucla.edu why does Sysop not show members and Integration subgroup does?The individual names listed under the course name are the Teachers you set for the course, not the students.In Moodle 1.6 while in the specific course you can cha...

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...