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Using the Linden Scripting Language – The Linden Scripting Language (LSL) lets you add behaviors and interactivity to objects inside Second Life – article in Doctor Dobb’s Journal Linden Scripting Language Reference_Found on http://Slashdot.org _

How to add a syllabus into MoodleIf uploading a file as your syllabus: In the Administration block or in the top right corner, click “Turn editing on” On the Add a resource… drop-down menu in the Syllabus block, choose Link to file or website. In the Name text...

How to add links to outside web sites from within a Moodle class website: First, go to either the public or private site for your class, depending on whether or not you want this: visible to the whole world, or restricted to students enrolled in your class ...

How to add and use a discussion board (aka Forum) in a Moodle class site.How to add a discussion board: Go to the private version of your class site. In the Adminstration block or in the top right corner, click on the Turn editing on link. On the Add a activit...

What does the Reset function in the Administration menu do?From Mary Parke, Instructional Designer, De Anza College:“The reset function allows you to remove all user data from a course and reset it’s start date each term – to “refresh it” one might say (conten...

This article may be very old. Please reach out to local support staff if you have questions.When logging into the http://ccle.ucla.edu (Moodle) site through the UCLA Login option, if you see one of these error messages, see the explanation and instructions bel...

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...

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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...

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 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...

Can anyone recommend an institutional web calendar that will run in a LAMP environment? UNL Event Publisher VT Calendar http://vtcalendar.sourceforge.net/ Examination of how to communicate events for an educational institution http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/E...

UCLA Moodle accounts are automatically created when someone first logs into the CCLE site via the UCLA Login. But if you want to set up someone’s UCLA account in advance, follow the steps below.Note: You need the following information about the user to pre-cre...

On Mac OS 1.4, there is the option to turn on ‘Apple Remote Desktop’ under the Sharing system preference. Does this allow me to connect and remote control my mac from another mac? What do I use for the client – Apple Remote Desktop Client? Does this use the...

This very creative solution showed up on one of the Moodle Forums, so I’m copying it in here.Question:I need to make a checklist for one of my activities, does anyone have any suggestions? I envision it to be a list where my students can go into the checklist ...

Here is a simple style sheet method for making a web page have page breaks, or form feeds in it.Example:Try going to the following example page and printing it. It will come out on two separate pages. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/test/formfeed.htmSource Code:1. ...

There are many different free photo-sharing sites on the web. This 2007 article from the N.Y. Times by David Pogue compares 8 of them.Find images on Google that you can reuse – Google Support articleSome major sites: Flickr 500px Imgur Photobucket Instagram Im...

How can I create a multi-page TIFF file?On OS/X it looks like tiffutil can do that. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/tiffutil.1.htmlOn Windows, TiffCombine costs $50 but has Trial version. http://www.topshareware.com/Tiff...