2010

 “Discover what’s new in Moodle 2.0, how the new features work, and how it will impact you”.

That’s the books subtitle and it really does deliver on its promise.

Now that the term is underway and we have 1 single merged VLE I thought it would be a good time to view some statistics as to how big the Leeds City College Moodle installation actually is.  After visiting http://moodle.org/stats/ I realise we are a long way away from breaking into the top 10 but its still not bad for a UK Further Education College. 

The new term is nearly upon us and lots of tutors are running about doing last minute Moodle changes to their course areas.  One question that keeps coming up is “How do I reset my course and clear last years students?“

The answer is simple, use the course reset feature in the course admin block.

This little gem is often missed and tutors are rarely informed of its use during Moodle training.

Apologies for the confusing blog title, I did this so that other users with the same problem could find it easily in Google.

For some strange reason, when a user clicks on a PowerPoint from within Moodle that is set to "New Window" they are prompted with the Open, Save, Cancel Box.  But when they click open, PowerPoint is launched and the presentation displays an empty white screen.

I think it has something to do with the TEMP folder and the way IE references this folder.  This bug only seems to happen on campus and works fine with Firefox, Chrome etc…

As a quick fix I edited file.php in the Moodle root directory.

And changed the line:

I often receive questions from Moodlers about how to tackle a Moodle overhaul so I thought I’d share my thoughts on this with the Moodle community.

Moodle to me is a constantly evolving project, I often change things as I’m going along.  Many people set out to create a finished product and as a result set their expectations too high and put too much pressure on themselves to finish the project in the allotted time.

This hack is awesome! At last, the WYSIWYG editor works for Mac Users and Google Chrome.

I can’t take any credit for this as it’s something I found on moodle.org.

Pall Thayer released the code so a big thank you to him.

The origial post can be found here but I have documented the process here and simplified the instructions below as they were a bit tricky to follow:

First we need to edit the file lib/moodlelib.lib